ST HELENS fell silent today as the town held a short service and observed two minutes silence' to mark Armistice Day.
At 11am people across the borough in schools, shops and businesses marked their respect for the time in 1918, eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the guns fell silent along the Western Front in Europe.
The service at the war memorial was led by Reverend David Eastwood, from St Helens Parish Church, Rev Martin Wood, from Wesley Methodist Church and Rev Deacon David-Paul Caldwell of St Mary's Lowe House.
The mayor of St Helens Cllr David Banks was in attendance alongside St Helens North MP Marie Rimmer and other councillors, council officers, veterans and residents.
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