👑 The Queen will not attend today's service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral after suffering discomfort during Thursday's celebrations.
🔴 Prince Andrew will also miss the ceremony after testing positive for Covid.
Follow for live updates throughout the day ⤵️
🔴 A last-minute announcement by Buckingham Palace on Thursday night said that the Queen had decided "with great reluctance" that the journey to St Paul's and the length of the service will make it too difficult to attend
🔴 Post Office workers are to go on strike over the #PlatinumJubilee weekend in a dispute over pay.
📮 Members of the Communication Workers Union at Crown Post Offices will walk out on Saturday telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
Sonja Kimeswenger, who flew in from Austria to be at St Paul’s, is hoping the presence of the Sussexes at the thanksgiving service is a sign of reconciliation.
"They should help one another, especially after the terrible death of their mother”, she said
🔴 Some members of the crowd booed as Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie got out of their car and walked up the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, although there were also cheers from some onlookers telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🔴 A member of the RAF who was part of the military guard of honour lining the steps to St Paul's Cathedral collapsed.
🌸Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall arrive at the Guildhall for a reception after the service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II
🗣️Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of her "deep respect" for the Queen, saying her private conversations with the monarch are one of the privileges of being Scotland's First Minister.
"I like her a lot - I have deep respect for her as many people do."
🔴 The two military personnel - one from the Royal Air Force Regiment and the other from the Royal Marines - appeared to lose consciousness while lining the steps up to the Great West Door of St Paul's Cathedral
👑 Home Secretary Priti Patel greeted Zara Tindall and Sophie [Lady Frederick Windsor] with her arms out, saying: "We’re all pink" in reference to the trio’s bright dresses
⛈️ Southern England is expected to experience thunderstorms with heavy rain and lightning that could bring flash floods and possible power cuts into Saturday morning that could put the dampener on celebrations
🔴 Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the Queen will not attend the Epsom Derby tomorrow, and is planning to watch it on television from Windsor Castle instead.
👑 Residents gathered at Belfast's City Hall for music and ballroom dancing to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee on Friday, as festivities continue across Britain
👑 Outside St Paul’s Cathedral crowds lined Ludgate Hill five to six deep, determined to add their input to the service of thanksgiving for the Queen being held inside
👑 "As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first official engagement since March 2020, there was none of the Netflix-esque drama we have grown used to in recent months." | Writes @CamillaTominey
🐧 The Princess Royal visited Edinburgh Zoo's penguin enclosure on Friday as part of the ongoing Platinum Jubilee celebrations, delighting onlookers and staff.
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
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✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.