Liverpool is marking the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster, which claimed 96 lives on this day in 1989. There was a minute silence at 3:06pm, the moment Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final was abandoned.

Ordinary fans are joining the families of the 96 who died, to pay their respects and remember them.

Reverend Kelvin Bolton led the service.

These people are amongst the 24,000 are attending the memorial service at Anfield.

It comes as just two weeks after the Hillsborough Inquests were formally opened. Lord Justice Goldring told jurors will lead the inquest.

He said "The disaster is seared into the memories of the very many people affected by it, most notably of course the families of the 96 people" he said upon opening the inquest.

Hundreds of relatives listened as the coroner told members of the jury "We shall consider the experience and deaths of each one of the 96 individuals. That is something we must never lose sight of during the course of these inquests".

"As part of your task you will...have to consider the circumstances of their deaths...whether opportunities were lost that might have prevented the deaths or saved lives".

The coroner said the inquest would comprise 10 sections including a detailed analysis of the emergency service preparation for the day of the disaster and a jury visit to the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield.

A virtual reconstruction of the changes made to the stadium will be shown on screens around the courtroom. The inquest hearing has seen pictures of crush barriers at the ground's Leppings Lane End, where the Liverpool fans were killed.

The coroner has described how one crush barrier in the relevant terraces was removed prior to the fateful FA Cup semi-final.

Lord Justice Goldring pointed out how planning for the 1989 match was modelled on the previous year's semi-final, at which a number of fans had survived crushing.