Silence will fall on Bradford city centre as a mark of respect for the Queen Mother during her funeral on Tuesday.

Many of the shops and stores will observe a two-minute silence at the 11.30am funeral at Westminster Abbey in London.

The Kirkgate Centre will ask all its customers to stop what they are doing as a mark of respect for the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.

Staff at Asda supermarkets in Bradford will be allowed to watch the funeral on television inside the stores which will be closed from 10.30am until 1pm.

And workers at Bradford Crown Court will be able to mourn the passing of the nation's favourite great-grandmother at home as the building will shut for the day.

But their colleagues at the nearby Bradford Magistrates' Courts have been told to come in as a remand court has to be manned on the day.

Kirkgate Centre manager Catherine Riley said she was following advice by the British Retail Consortium, which liaised with Buckingham Palace over the matter.

A BRC spokesman said the guidance from the Palace is that the Queen Mother would not have wanted the country to grind to a halt.

Mrs Riley said: "We will be observing the two-minute silence and we hope people will stop everything they're doing and pay their respects.

"If stores inside the centre wish to close as a mark of respect we wouldn't have an issue with that at all."

The BRC represents high street retailers such as Marks & Spencer and WH Smith, who both have stores in the city centre, as well as supermarket chains and smaller retailers.

An Asda spokesman said: "A lot of staff want to watch the service, and trying to observe a two-minutes silence with customers in the store would be very difficult.

"The workers will remain in the stores to close them down and reopen them, but we will provide television sets for those who want to watch the funeral service."

A Bradford Council spokesman said all its flags would be flown at half mast and the silence observed, but its staff would be working as normal.