GLASGOW will fall silent exactly a year after the Clutha helicopter disaster.
Police have asked members of the public to join them tomorrow night as they remember the 10 people killed in the tragedy.
Officers on patrol this weekend are expected to observe the minute's silence, and it is hoped revellers in the city's pubs and clubs will join them.
Senior police have previously spoken of the impact of losing three members of the "police family" on November 29 2013.
Pilot David Traill, PC Tony Collins and WPC Kirsty Nelis died when the helicopter crashed into the roof of the Clutha bar. Six people died inside the premises - they were John McGarrigle, Mark O'Prey, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins and Samuel McGhee. Joe Cusker was pulled from the wreckage alive but later died in hospital.
A minute's silence will be held at 10.22pm tomorrow - the exact moment when contact with the helicopter was lost that night.
Scottish Police Federation bosses hope the public will mark the silence.
A statement read: "This Saturday evening, please join us as we remember the Clutha victims with a one-minute silence at 10.22pm."
Meanwhile, the family of one of the victims will hold a festival on the day he would have celebrated his 46th birthday. Mark O'Prey's relatives want to celebrate his life and his love of music on his birthday, August 14, with a gathering for his friends at the family home.
"Bands are going to come down and play," his father Ian said. "We're starting to work out details. It will be like a rave.
"Mark had so many mates. They still come down here."
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