Britons pay tribute to war dead

Millions of Britons have held a two-minute silence to remember the nation’s war dead.

Millions of Britons have held a two-minute silence to remember the nation’s war dead.

The tribute started at 11am, the time the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the end of the First World War in 1918.

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