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Thunder and lightening in Royal Berkshire now. Can't be coincidence.

why would the royal loving brits revolt
jeremy corbyn didn't do it .... did he ?

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BBC One have suspended all regular programming until 6pm.

the conservatives are going to have a field day releasing new policies whilst no journalist is paying any attention whatsoever

Google.co.uk logo is plain (no day theme animation), but still 4 colours.

Panic over, can get back to normal now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bv7g/doctors-series-23-70-a-corrosive-substance

I am commemorating this sad day by ordering a pair of Rapha merino underpants. I will not be making any other comments. Please respect my grieving space.

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In tribute I'm listening to some girls are bigger than others

I'm renewing my passport next week. Will there be a delay while they change the wording on the inside front cover?

"Her Britannic Majesty's..."

Seems we are in phase one. Also, they have 11days of coverage. How exhausting!

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Oh God, I had forgotten that this would be an excuse to dredge up Morrissey. Maybe John Lydon is available instead.

He's busy remixing God Save the Queen.

Looks pretty complicated given the location:

The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train. (Another locomotive will follow behind, to clear debris from the tracks.) “It’s actually very complicated,” one transport official told me.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge

Sounds like a good opportunity for a rail strike

15, 17, 26 +27 September are already scheduled for industrial action.

Guess it means the tracks will be clear for her.

Maybe they can get Nicholas Witchell to be a scab for that strike as well. I'm sure he'd love to drive a train.

Good job she won't be coming down the West Coast. She'd never make it.

sad progress down the east coast mainline.

Travelling standard class on the LNER azuma then?

The second Elizabethan age is likely to be remembered as a reign of uninterrupted national decline

Even more so for those who have lived with austerity since 2008 in the UK..

Nicholas Witchell has just said about the Queen's corgis:

"They know nothing of her status."

god if he's running out of things to say now, whats he gonna be like on day 7

bbc should draft in carlton kirby

This must be the hardest bit. Once she's dead I'm sure there's plenty of people with hours worth of memories and moments to share.

I don’t mean to offend anyone, just trying to plan remaining leave for the year, but is an additional bank holiday part of the celebrations?