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11/11/2010
Eleventh Hour Silence Marks Fallen
As millions of people across the UK fell silent at 11am today to mark Armistice Day, an innovative 'pop record' This Remembrance Day - actually a two-minute silence to support the Poppy campaign by the Royal British Legion - has seen the track that contains no music whatsoever shoot into the midweek Top 20. Proceeds from the single, which is available on iTunes, are to benefit this year's ex-service's Poppy appeal.
The modern take on commemoration was in parallel with the more traditional remembrance service at the Cenotaph in central London.
There - as in services also taking place across Great Britain and in Northern Ireland - a bugler from the Scots Guards signalled the start of the silence by playing the Last Post.
The conclusion of the 'two minutes was as always, marked by the playing of the Reveille.
The anniversary marks the return of peace to Europe at the end of the First World War after an agreement between Germany and the allies, which took effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
The fallen were also honoured in Trafalgar Square, where the Royal British Legion hosted Silence in the Square.
Pop group the Saturdays performed and there were readings from celebrities before the silence. The event was linked by satellite with a remembrance service at Swansea's Castle Square.
In Belfast, as wreaths were being laid by civic representatives and Royal British Legion members this morning at the City Hall cenotaph, the leader of the nationalist SDLP revealed that she will wear a poppy while attending a Remembrance Sunday ceremony this weekend.
It is understood that Margaret Ritchie will be the first leader of a nationalist party to wear a poppy.
She said that she hoped it would be seen as a gesture of "reconciliation and reaching out" as some see the poppy as a controversial symbol in Northern Ireland, often dividing unionists and nationalists even though it is only sold by the British Legion in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday in November to raise money for veterans.
(BMcC/GK)
The modern take on commemoration was in parallel with the more traditional remembrance service at the Cenotaph in central London.
There - as in services also taking place across Great Britain and in Northern Ireland - a bugler from the Scots Guards signalled the start of the silence by playing the Last Post.
The conclusion of the 'two minutes was as always, marked by the playing of the Reveille.
The anniversary marks the return of peace to Europe at the end of the First World War after an agreement between Germany and the allies, which took effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
The fallen were also honoured in Trafalgar Square, where the Royal British Legion hosted Silence in the Square.
Pop group the Saturdays performed and there were readings from celebrities before the silence. The event was linked by satellite with a remembrance service at Swansea's Castle Square.
In Belfast, as wreaths were being laid by civic representatives and Royal British Legion members this morning at the City Hall cenotaph, the leader of the nationalist SDLP revealed that she will wear a poppy while attending a Remembrance Sunday ceremony this weekend.
It is understood that Margaret Ritchie will be the first leader of a nationalist party to wear a poppy.
She said that she hoped it would be seen as a gesture of "reconciliation and reaching out" as some see the poppy as a controversial symbol in Northern Ireland, often dividing unionists and nationalists even though it is only sold by the British Legion in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday in November to raise money for veterans.
(BMcC/GK)
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