Army

Armistice Day Commemorations

Thousands of people have flocked to the Tower of London to pay their respects to the nation's war dead.

By the time the bugler sounds the Last Post just before 11am and the two-minute silence descends, there will be many more.

But their numbers will be dwarfed by the masses of red ceramic poppies spilling from the historic royal palace.

Each of the 888,245 blooms already in the Tower's moat represents a British or Colonial military death during the First World War.

Tim Cooper is at the Tower of London this morning where some of the commemorations will be held