🔷 At least two people caused a disturbance on The Mall by running out in front of marching soldiers before being arrested, TV pictures showed
🔷 Royals appear for Trooping the Colour
🔷 Vegan activists vaulted fences near Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour before being tackled by police thetimes.co.uk/article/platin…
🔹 A huge crowd on The Mall cheered the Queen as she watched a flypast of more than seventy RAF aircraft from the Buckingham Palace balcony thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
🔷 RAF fighter jets fly in formation to form the number 70
🔷Thousands gather to watch the Red Arrows head over The Mall
🔺 BREAKING: Prince Andrew has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Friday, Buckingham Palace has announced
“After undertaking a routine test the duke has tested positive for Covid and with regret will no longer be attending tomorrow’s service,” the palace said thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
🔺BREAKING: The Queen will miss the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral in London tomorrow “with great reluctance” after experiencing “some discomfort” during today’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
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On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off in Mario Ledwith’s hometown of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, killing 11 people. A lifetime later, Mario returns to investigate the silence surrounding that terror attack thetimes.com/article/d983fb…
Liana is in bed on a maternity ward when she hears the boom. It sends a chill through her. Heavily pregnant, she heaves herself up and looks out of the window at the centre of Enniskillen. It is November 8, 1987
A bomb has exploded 500 metres away as hundreds of people gather for a Remembrance Sunday event. The impact is catastrophic
Russian forces occupied Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, for just under a month. Across those 29 days in early 2022, they committed acts of barbarity, meaning that this Ukrainian town will forever be synonymous with war crimes
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More than 100 residents were buried in a mass grave outside the Orthodox Christian church. The basement of a children’s summer camp was converted into a torture chamber where women and children were systematically raped. Soldiers killed parents in front of their children
The United Nations has described it as ethnic cleansing and a crime against humanity, yet Russia claims the scene was staged by British special forces
British 16 and 17-year-olds are more patriotic than the public overall, but are indifferent about the monarchy, according to a new poll ⬇️
The second part of research for The Sunday Times found that 49% say they are proud of their national identity, while 10% say they are ashamed, a net positive score of 39. Across the population as a whole, 45% are proud while 15% are ashamed, a net score of 30
Despite their national pride, however, these teenagers are no great fans of the royal family. Almost a quarter – 27% – support abolishing the monarchy, while 24% oppose it. Meanwhile 35% say they neither support nor oppose it, and 15% say they don’t know
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Robinson charging £28 a minute as personal coach to far right.
The self-styled ‘fearless British activist’ is advising clients on issues including protesting, evading infiltration and ‘investigating’ local mosques. Read the full story below
The far-right activist Tommy Robinson is making thousands of pounds charging his followers for video consultations offering “expert advice” on anti-Islam activism
Robinson, 42, who co-founded the English Defence League (EDL), has used a personal mentoring platform to deliver more than 300 sessions in the past two months
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Memos fired off by the monarch to correct grammar and demand single flowers be moved are wrecking morale among staff who are paid as little as minimum wage ⬇️
For 45 years, Highgrove House has been the King’s private home. He still regularly spends several days a week at the house, tending to the exotic flowers and plants that are his pride and joy
In the summer of 2021, Charles quietly signed a deal to preserve his influence over the property when he became King, when they would be due to fall into his son’s hands
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Zia Yusuf is returning to Reform UK just 48 hours after resigning as the party’s chairman and will take up a new role following peace talks with Nigel Farage
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 38-year-old businessman said his decision to quit was a “mistake”, the result of “exhaustion” and working for 11 months “without a day off”
He was speaking alongside Farage, who said Yusuf will now effectively be doing “four jobs”, although his formal title has not been decided