Remembrance Sunday: King Charles leads service at Cenotaph

King Charles III has led the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London.

The ceremony commemorates the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.

Thousands of veterans, army personnel and members of the public in the capital joined the rest of the UK in a two-minute silence at 11am.

At 11am Big Ben chimed to signal the start of the two-minute silence. It was ended by the sound of a cannon blasting from Horse Guards Parade followed by a bugler playing the Last Post.

Wreaths were laid by members of the royal family, senior politicians and dignitaries at the Cenotaph.

Almost 10,000 veterans and 800 Armed Forces personnel from all three services took part in a march-past.

Among those marching were nuclear test veterans, who for the first time will wear a medal acknowledging their contribution.

They were joined by thousands of members of the public who will line Whitehall to watch the service.

The Cenotaph remains under 24 hour police watch as an exclusion zone has been put in place over the weekend to "to protect national remembrance events and locations". 

On Armistice Day, officers on duty were met with "violence and abuse". Bottles and other missiles were thrown at officers by what the force referred to as "counter protesters".

Nine officers were injured on Saturday as they prevented a violent crowd of mainly football hooligans from reaching the war memorial while a service took place.

Police said 300,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched to call for a Gaza ceasefire, in demonstrations which coincided with Armistice Day.

Counter-protesters made up the "vast majority" of 126 arrests made.

Counter-protesters, who included those from far-right groups, clashed with police near London's Cenotaph and in Chinatown.

Separately, the Met criticised the actions of "breakaway groups behaving in an intimidating manner" at the end of the pro-Palestinian march, and said arrests were made after fireworks struck officers in the face.

No major protest is scheduled to take place on Remembrance Sunday, although the policing operation will continue with some 1,375 officers deployed amid commemoration events in the capital.