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Part of the team behind the Tower of London poppies display is returning to the landmark building to fill its moat with thousands of flames to mark the end of the First World War.

The Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers installation will see a circle of light created around the tower every night for a week in the run-up to Armistice Day.

Artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper created a sensation when they filled the moat with 888,246 ceramic poppies — one for every British fatality during the war — four years ago. An estimated five million people saw the display before it toured the UK. Most flowers were sold off for charity.

Piper will work with a sound artist on the new work, which will see Yeoman Warders lead an act of remembrance each night by lighting the first flame, before volunteers light the rest. A specially commissioned soundtrack inspired by war poet Mary Borden’s Sonnets To A Soldier will also be played. The public can watch from Tower Hill for free, while tickets will give a small audience access to the moat itself.

General the Lord Houghton, Constable of the Tower of London, said: “The war claimed the lives of over 18 million people. We remembered them on the anniversary of the start of the war, and we should commemorate their sacrifice 100 years after hostilities ended. Many of the Tower community have served in the Armed Forces. It is important that lessons from these conflicts continue to be shared.”