A lone fan arrives on a damp Merseyside morning to visit the eternal flame of the Hillsborough Memorial. Liverpool players will join the families of the victims at Anfield to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy
Floral tributes from Liverpool football club representatives are laid beside the memorial that lists the names of the 96 victims of the disaster on 15 April 1989
A fan lays a scarf amongst the hundreds of others from fans from around the world that have been tied to the Shankly Gates outside Liverpool's home on the Anfield Road
Thousands of fans arrive outside Anfield to attend the official memorial service that will take place within the stadium and on Liverpool's famous Kop end
A young Liverpool supporter arrives at Anfield with a single red rose. Up to 30,000 people are thought to have arrived at the ground to pay their respects to the victims of Britain's worst sporting disaster
With the Kop and the Centenary stands already full of fans, Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez arrives to dignified applause alongside other club officials and members of the first team and academy
Anfield's famous Kop is filled with supporters and families of the Hillsborough victims as a two-minute silence is observed across Liverpool and in Sheffield and Nottingham
Kenny Dalglish the former Liverpool star and manager of the club on the fateful day, acknowledges the Anfield crowd after reading from the Bible, Lamentations of Jeremiah
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and team-mate Jamie Carragher present Freedom Scrolls to Trevor Hicks, who lost two daughters in the disaster, and a representative of each of the families of the 96 victims
The service concludes with Gerry Marsden leading the crowd in a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone, as 96 balloons are released into the sky above Anfield
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