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Big Ben strikes 11 times to mark the start of the Two Minutes of Silence at 11 am on Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday - joining bells across the country and worldwide to commemorate those that lost their lives in the two world wars and later conflicts. IMAGES
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
Members and allies of the LGBTQ community take part in a pride march in London, with rainbow flags, hula hoops and headdresses on full display. It is the 50th anniversary of the city's first Pride parade, marking half a century of progress in the fight for equality and tolerance but with warnings that more still needs to be done. IMAGES
Images of Grenfell Tower in London as the city marks five years since Britain's worse residential fire since World War II. A total of 72 people were killed when a fire that started in a faulty freezer ripped through the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in west London on June 14, 2017. IMAGES
Thousands of Londoners line the banks of the River Thames and crowd on Westminster Bridge to have a glimpse of the clock faces on the Elizabeth Tower for the first time on New Year's Eve since 2016/17. The dongs of Big Ben also ring in the New Year for the first time since renovations began on the world famous landmark four years ago. IMAGES
People pay their respects to Prince Philip in London's Piccadilly Circus as Britain fall silent in a one-minute's silence in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh. IMAGES
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