1.   Botero has held his silence until now, he said, for the good of the country.

2.   Botero held his silence until last night, he said, for the good of the country.

3.   A brief silence was held before the match in memory of the victims of terrorist attacks in the United States earlier in the day.

4.   In the southern city of Granada, five minutes silence were held in memory of Domingo Puente, who was killed in a car-bomb blast on Monday.

5.   The Legion estimates that half of all Britons participated last year, the first time for decades that a silence was held on a weekday.

6.   A moments silence was held in memory of the four crew on board who all died.