CEREMONIES and acts of remembrance are set to be held across Merseyside this week as the region honours the fallen.

Tomorrow Reverend Dr Richard Cook, the Merseyside railway and British Transport Police chaplain, will hold a memorial service at James Street station and a second ceremony will take place at Lime Street station on Friday. Both will start at 10.50am.

A two-minute silence will be held in the city centre on Thursday led by the Lord Mayor on the plateau of St George’s Hall.

A service at the Huyton Cenotaph, opposite the Huyton Suite on Civic Way, will start at 10.45am and will also observe the silence.

In St Helens the mayor will attend an Armistice Day parade and ceremony at the cenotaph, Victoria Square, at 11am and in Sefton the Southport cenotaph on Lord Street will be the focus of remembrance at 11am.

In West Lancs a two-minute silence will be held at the clock tower in Ormskirk and at the HMS Ringtail monument in Burscough.

The Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside will join soldiers from the 4th Battalion the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (formerly Liverpool’s Kings Regiment) to attend a service at Manchester Cathedral.