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The Liverpool team will mark the 28th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with a service at their Melwood training ground.

The players and management of the club have become familiar figures at Anfield over the years for the annual Memorial Service.

But at the request of the families, last year’s gathering was the final one at Anfield and the 96 will instead be remembered by the families at a reflective prayer service at Liverpool Cathedral.

The team meanwhile will mark the anniversary at Melwood where the temporary memorial to those who lost their lives has been moved.

Manager Jurgen Klopp and captain Jordan Henderson will lay flowers early in the afternoon before the entire team will stop training and gather in front of the memorial just before 3.06pm, the time the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was stopped in 1989.

Klopp said: “This is a day of special significance for the LFC family; in fact it is a day of significance for the whole of football, but us more so.

“We will of course mark the occasion as a team - this is important. I know, at the wish of the families, this is the first year where the service does not take place at Anfield. But that doesn’t mean we won’t stop and remember in an appropriate manner.

“There is a memorial at Melwood, with the names of the 96 people who lost their lives on April 15 1989; we, as a team, will pause, show our respect and remember them on this day.

“For the victims, the families of those who died and the survivors, their story will always be our story.

“Their memory and the spirit of those who fought for them long after their deaths, will always be a reason for inspiration and hope, as well as sorrow.”

The LFC stores in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Chester, Dublin and Belfast will temporarily cease trading so that staff and customers can participate in the minute’s silence at 3.06pm.

LFCTV will also broadcast a special day of themed programming to mark the anniversary.