Covid-19 restrictions forced much of the British public to observe the traditional two-minute silence at 11am on Wednesday from their homes this year, but locals in Penwortham ventured out to mark the event.
Our photographer NEIL CROSS was there to watch:
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In France, more than 60 heads of government and heads of state gathered at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
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In Britain, beginning in 1939, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest to 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday
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