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Armistice Day marked in UK

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Three of the four last surviving British World War I veterans have attended a ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.

In Edinburgh a two minutes silence was held in Princes Street Gardens, while in Southampton one million poppies were dropped onto the QE2 to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.

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