The Leicester Mercury is leading calls for a silent tribute across offices, shops, streets and stations to mark Armistice Day.

Bosses at the Haymarket Shopping Centre in Leicester have already announced that the two-minute silence will be observed at 11am on Saturday November 11 and again the next day, to mark Remembrance Sunday.

A bugler will sound the Last Post at the out-of-town Fosse Park centre and bus companies are asking their drivers to pull over at 11am on the 11th to observe the silence wherever possible.

The Mercury told its readers as the campaign gained momentum: “On November 11 last year, people all over Britain stood in silence for two minutes, remembering those who died in conflict this century. It was probably the best-observed silence for many years.

“This year it is up to all of us to make sure the first silence of the new Millennium is an even more memorable event.”

The Mercury campaign covers the whole of Leicestershire and Rutland.

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