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Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration Details Announced

We’re having lunch and a long weekend, and the Queen’s off to see the gee gees.

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Friday news allsorts, from anthems and protesters to astrophysics and mean market managers.

The face that launched a thousand ships.

Thames Flotilla For Diamond Jubilee

1000 boats to celebrate the Queen’s big six-zero.

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Photography Preview: Mick Rock – Rock: Music

Drawn to extreme performances and defiant, rebellious artists, Mick Rock’s gritty and unusual portraits encapsulate an era. Rock, Bowie’s official photographer at the time Ziggy Stardust came into being, had exclusive access to every glittering moment of Bowie’s glamdrogynous alter ego. Think of the band …

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Image by M@. Southbank Centre and Waterloo station denied listed status. Lutfur Rahman ejected as Labour candidate for Tower Hamlets mayoral election by the party. Brixton bus depot goes up in flames. Vans/minibuses get reprieve from emission zone till 2012. Non-controversial new portrait of queen …

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Queen In Rare Wimbledon Visit

33 years ago, in her Silver Jubilee year, the Queen visited Wimbledon to watch Virginia Wade become the last British tennis player to win the tournament. Her Maj can’t have been impressed, because she hasn’t been back since, until today: she’s in SW19 to take …

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The Queen: You’ve Got To Laugh

The Queen had a good giggle recently, and as there hasn’t been much to laugh about during the last few weeks, we’re sharing her glee. The Queen LOLed during a photoshoot with a military officer in full 17th century armour, as he struggled into his …

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Freddie Mercury Memorial Unveiled

Image / trailerfullofpix Feltham has unveiled a monument to favourite son Freddie Mercury. A 2,000 -strong crowd convened to watch as the late singer’s 87-year old mother, alongside Brian May, introduced the bronze memorial and spoke about her son. Born in Zanzibar to a Parsi …

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Queen Goes To Theatre; Look, She’s Just Like Us

Not that theatre… image by Pit Van Meeffe from the Londonist Flickr pool Don’t you hate people who leave it til the last minute to take their seats at the theatre? “Excuse one… excuse one… excuse one… Yis, sorry one is late, the Prime Minister …

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Griffin Fights For The Right To Party

Boris Johnson has leapt into the fray over BNP leader Nick Griffin’s controversial guest invite to the Queen’s garden party. ‘Can’t quite believe that the BNP are trying to turn the Queen’s annual garden party into a political stunt,’ the mayor Twittered. ‘Am going to …

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Feltham Mulls Freddie Tribute

by trailerfullofpix Though a son of Zanzibar, Freddie Mercury lived for most of his life in London, and a fitting tribute to the Queen frontman is well overdue (discounting the statue that stands over the grave of Ben Elton’s career on Tottenham Court Road). Now …