Liverpool comes to a halt

The city will fall silent at 3.06pm as all public transport will come to a halt, the Mersey tunnels will briefly shut and many shops and businesses will stop trading as Liverpool holds a two minute silence to remember the 96 fans who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster. Silences will also be held in Nottingham and Sheffield.

At Anfield the memorial service will begin at 2.45pm where president of the Hillsborough Family Support Group Trevor Hicks, Rick Parry and Andy Burnham MP, secretary of state for culture, media and sport will address the crowd.

Rafael Benitez and Liverpool's lord mayor Steve Rotheram will symbolically lay a scarf on the pitch before Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher hand over a freedom of the city scroll to Mr Hicks.

At 3.08pm all civic, church and cathedral bells will ring 96 times.