Armistice Day: The North West remembers lives lost in battle

A series of events take place across the North West today to remember those killed in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

The region will fall silent at 11am to represent the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, when the guns of Europe fell silent during the First World War.

Wreath-laying ceremonies as well as church services will take place throughout the day.

St George's Hall in Liverpool has a special Remembrance Day art installation, featuring the ceramic poppies from the Tower of London's Weeping Window.

What is Armistice Day?

Armistice Day - also known as Remembrance Day - marks the anniversary of the end of the First World War, after an Entente was signed in the early hours of 11 November 1918.

The two minute silence begins at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - the point at which gunfire stopped after four years of bloody conflict.

It is observed across the Commonwealth and is used to remember not just those that died in the First World War, but all members of the armed forces to have died in war since.