THERE will be a two minute silence at 11am this morning (Thursday) to mark Armistice Day.

The public are asked to fully co-operate with the silence and motorists are requested to stop driving between 11am and 11.02am and to turn off their engines.

The silence is held to mark the ending of World War 1 – at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.

Veterans' groups will parade to the memorial for the Armistice Day commemoration which will be attended by Lieutenant Governor Sir Paul Haddacks and the Mayor of Douglas Ritchie McNicholl.

Ex-service personnel should assemble at the Gaiety Theatre at 10.30 for the parade to the war memorial.

Meanwhile the Battle of Britain is the focus of this evening's annual remembrance lecture organised by the Royal Aeronautical Society Isle of Man.

The son of World War II Spitfire pilot Ted 'Shippy' Shipman will recount his father's experiences during one of the most dangerous times in British history.

The stories are drawn from John Shipman's book 'One of the Few'. The lecture is at the Strathallan Suite, at the northern end of Douglas promenade, at 7.30pm.