Poignant tributes will be paid to the men, women and children killed in the Hillsborough tragedy as Merseyside marks the 32nd anniversary of the disaster on Thursday.
Ninety six Liverpool FC supporters died following a terrace crush at the club's FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest in Sheffield on April 15, 1989.
They will be remembered as the region stops to pay respect with a series of symbolic acts.
The bells of Liverpool town hall will chime 96 times with the flags lowered to half mast on the city's civic buildings.
Liverpool Council is one of a number of organisations that will ask people to observe a minute's silence at 3.06pm, the time the semi-final was halted.
Merseytravel will also ask people to join that minute's silence, which will be started and ended with the sound of the Mersey Ferries horn.
Ferry services will be held and traffic will be stopped at the tunnel toll gates at the same time.
A minute's silence will be observed before Liverpool's Champions League tie with Real Madrid at Anfield on Wednesday night and the team will wear black armbands.
Tributes will be displayed on LED boards surrounding the pitch and within a commemorative edition of the matchday programme.
On Thursday, players and staff across the club will observe a minute’s silence and the club will lay floral wreaths at the Hillsborough memorial at Anfield.
Flags will be flown at half-mast and the retail store at Anfield will close from 1pm for the remainder of the day.
The anniversary falls days before three men are due to go on trial over allegations linked to the aftermath of the tragedy.
The defendants, two former South Yorkshire Police officers and a solicitor who worked with the force, face allegations of doing acts with intent to pervert the course of public justice.
Ex-Chief Superintendent Donald Denton, former Detective Chief Inspector Alan Foster and solicitor Peter Metcalf deny wrongdoing.
Their trial is due to start in Salford next week.
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