Grassroots football clubs and youth teams are to hold a minute's silence this weekend in memory of a 10-year-old girl who was fatally struck by a car on a sports pitch. Poppy Atkinson was attending a football training session at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria on Wednesday evening when she died in the incident.

Poppy Atkinson, 10, was fatally struck by a BMW i4 electric car at a football training session in Cumbria on Wednesday afternoon.

A Lancashire football club has paid tribute to one of their young players, who died after being struck by a car, on a sports pitch in Cumbria. A minute’s silence has also been planned on Sunday after Poppy Atkinson was fatally struck by a BMW i4 electric car at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria on Wednesday afternoon.