BLACKBURN Rovers players and staff joined the rest of the nation to pay tribute to the victims of the Tunisia terror attack with an emotional minute's silence.
The nation paused at noon to reflect on last Friday's atrocity and remember the 30 British people who were killed in the beach front massacre.
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh observed the silence as they visited the University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre, while Prime Minister David Cameron marked the moment in his Oxfordshire constituency.
Mosques across the UK also fell silent to mark the occasion as Muslims paid their own tributes during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Muslim Council of Britain has urged British Muslims to make their voices heard to pray for peace, and speak out against terrorism, and has called on mosques and imams to deliver a sermon of peace at Friday prayers, to remind people "that these killers do not respect the sanctity of life as laid down in Islam".
Locals pay their tributes outside Blackburn Town Hall
The British victims were among 38 holidaymakers who were killed by Seifeddine Rezgui when he opened fire in the resort of Sousse.
Three Irish nationals, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian were among the dead.
The bodies of 17 of the 30 British victims killed in the beach massacre have been returned to the UK and eight more will be flown into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Friday, the Foreign Office said, with the final five returning on Saturday.
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