WHAT THEY SAY
When it comes to how to mark 70 years as your Queen, there is no guidebook to follow. It really is a first. But I have been humbled and deeply touched that so many people have taken to the streets to celebrate my Platinum Jubilee – The Queen’s message at the end of her Platinum Jubilee commemorations.
It’s very rare you get days like this to feel patriotic. I think the last time was the Euros final when you actually felt it in the city. It’s really really nice – Ed Sheeran before singing his hit song to close the Plainum
Jubilee Pageant.
It’s been really good to be asked to get involved in this. We compete in the whole circuit but it’s been really good working with so many people than what you normally do. It’s been brilliant working with other clubs. We’re learning different skills of how people do stuff, it’s a whole next experience and is a once-in-a-lifetime – Simon Male, of Somerset’s Harlequins Carnival Club on working with rivals to create a float for the pageant.
We are investigating contact Metropolitan Police officers had with a man on Chelsea Bridge yesterday morning (Saturday) prior to him entering the River Thames – the Independent Office for Police Conduct after the death of a man who ended up in the River Thames after police fired a Taser in a bid to detain him.
The answer can’t always be to reach for the lever marked ‘More immigration’ – Transport Secretary Grant Shapps rejects calls to open the door to more “cheap” foreign workers in a bid to relieve the growing pressure on the aviation sector.