rity operation alone is set to cost £5 million ($8 million). Police across London have been ordered to cancel any leave they had planned for Operation True Blue on Wednesday. There could be more than 4,000 officers and 2,000 troops lining the route. Hundreds of specialist police will be working on counter-terrorism measures, with others carefully monitoring CCTV cameras for trouble spots. Every c…
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Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston’s former personal assistant, had been the singer’s secret lesbian lover for many years, claims gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Peter Tatchell claimed Whitney Houston attended an AIDS event in London, in 1991, with a gay partner. Though he declined to identify her, the organizer – respected gay rights and equality consultant Vernal Scott – said that Pete…
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end of Ramadan after a prosecutor was appointed to oversee charges. Recep Cetin, whose true age is not known, will be held in custody for at least another week as the Islamic holy month ends on August 30. The Turkish waiter, who has eventually confessed to killing the two women in a forest near Izmir, earlier tried to cover up their murders by claiming they had been attacked by a gang of men. Rece…
Thousands of well-wishers witnessed an honor guard of firefighters standing to attention to salute pallbearers carrying Boston Marathon attack victim Krystle Campbell’s casket into church today. The line outside St. Joseph Church on Monday for the 11 a.m. funeral of 29-year-old Krystle Campbell stretched down the block as 23 officers on motorbikes joined the procession. Krystle Campbell was…
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…#8220;with much of what she did”. Conservative MPs queued up in the Commons to pay their respects to Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, but about half of Labour’s 256 MPs stayed away. The Lords also held a debate on the former prime minister, with her former Cabinet ministers Lord Fowler and Lord Tebbit among those paying tribute. The Guardian has reported tha…
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ng to health problems, his spokesman has said. The guest list for the event was drawn up by Margaret Thatcher’s family with the assistance of the government and the Conservative Party. More than 2,000 invitations will be sent out, with most set to be dispatched on Friday. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are already confirmed for the ceremony, which will take place in St Paul’s Cat…
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…et Thatcher, who died at the age of 87 on April 8, had strong connections to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, home of the Pensioners, over the last 10 years. The Margaret Thatcher Infirmary opened there in 2009. Downing Street has announced that well-known hymns and poems will mark next week’s funeral of former British PM Margaret Thatcher The coffin will be carried into and out of the cathedral…
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…e to the family told TMZ. One source said: “The family could tell from the photo that it was taken from inside the funeral home, but they have no idea who would have snapped the pic.” Whitney Houston, 48, died in a hotel suite in Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on 11 February. A spokesman for the Los Angeles county coroner said multiple bottles of prescription medication were recovered from Wh…
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will take place on Wednesday, April 17, Downing Street has announced today. Former British PM Margaret Thatcher died on Monday, April 8, after suffering a series of strokes. The funeral ceremony, with full military honors, will take place at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, following a procession from Westminster. Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of…
…8211; cried as he walked alongside the hearse. Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up to bow their heads in homage in the city’s main square. Kim Jong-Un – who is thought to be in his late 20s and who has little political experience – was accompanied by his uncle, Chang Song-Taek. Chang Song-Taek is expected to be a key player as the younger Kim Jong-Un consolidates power. Kim Jo…
Whitney Houston’s family members, including her mother Cissy and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, took the opportunity to pay their respects in private at Whigham Funeral Home, Newark, New Jersey, yesterday. Millions of viewers are expected to witness Whitney Houston’s funeral at noon today. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 18, who made her first appearance since being rushed to hospital after col…
Queen Elizabeth II has led mourners in St Paul’s Cathedral in London at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest serving prime minister of modern times. More than 2,000 guests from around the world paid their last respects at the biggest such occasion since the Queen Mother’s funeral in 2002. In total, two current heads of state, 11 serving prime ministers and 17 serv…
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…ceedings will be streamed live on the Internet and roadblocks will be in place around the church to keep the public back and ensure those attending can get there on time. Just hours later Bobby Brown, 43, will apparently split from the rest of his grieving family and travel to Connecticut – where he will play a lucrative concert at a casino. The funeral comes one week after Whitney Houston w…
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral home in Worcester revealed today. Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan who was holding the body Tamerlan Tsarnaev read the details from his death certificate on Friday. The certificate cites 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “gunshot wounds of torso and extremities” and lists the time of his deat…
…lot of nonsense” and spoke with admiration about her commitment to the Commonwealth and armed services. “No one could curtsey lower than Margaret Thatcher,” said another former aide. Inevitably, after 11 years of almost weekly meetings, the Queen and Margaret Thatcher reached something akin to friendship. Margaret Thatcher was even said to have jokingly sent the monarch a pair of rubber gloves as…
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…rit told me that you would not be with me long,” Cissy Houston wrote her daughter in a letter published in the program. “And I thank God for the beautiful flower he allowed me to raise and cherish for 48 years.” “Rest, my baby girl in peace,” the letter ends, signed “mommie”. Whitney Houston’s flower-covered casket arrived this morning at the church where her powerful voice first wowed a congregat…
Earlier reports claimed that Elton John was to attend his friend Whitney Houston’s funeral and, when he cancelled his Friday and Saturday concerts at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, many fans thought that’s where he was. But Sir Elton John has responded to the reports, saying the shows were cut because he was sick with food poisoning, not because he was bidding farewell to the tro…
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…r the service and the reception afterwards so that his son could say a proper goodbye to his mother. The boy has lived with his father since he was six and will continue to do so. On Saturday, Kurupt, 39, tweeted: “We luv u Natina ….. #MissedButNotForgottin.” Natina Reed’s funeral took place on Saturday at Abundant Life Church in Lithonia, Georgia with many of her friends and family pr…
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2003 funeral of her father. Carolyn Whigham, the funeral home’s owner, said the invitation-only funeral reflects the family’s desire to keep the memorial more personal. “They have shared her for 30 some years with the city, with the state, with the world. This is their time now for their farewell,” Carolyn Whigham said. “The family thanks all the fans, the friends and the media, but this tim…
A tight London security operation involving more than 4,000 police officers is under way for the funeral of former British PM Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher’s coffin will travel from Westminster and be taken in procession through central London for the funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral at 11:00 BST. Some 2,300 people, representing 170 countries, are expected to attend. Queen Elizab…
…illon Dinn. “Jane really lives to dance.” Jane Richard’s eldest brother Henry, 12, and father Bill managed to escape from the bomb attack uninjured. Images from the scene appear to show Bill Richard, 42, a community organizer, holding his youngest children up on the railings as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev plants his backpack bomb just behind them. It isn’t clear whether any of the women in the photog…
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A memorial service and funeral have been held in North Texas for Kasandra Perkins, the slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. Family and friends gathered at a church in Blue Ridge to remember 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins, five days after Jovan Belcher shot her multiple times before shooting himself in the head. Life Celebration Funeral Home said a separate service will b…
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…the duchess had been treated for morning sickness. Days earlier Jacintha Saldanha had answered a hoax call from Australia about Kate Middleton. Her husband, Benedict Barboza, and their daughter Lisha, 14, and son Junal, 16, are flying to southern India to attend the funeral on Monday. Jacintha Saldanha’s funeral will take place at Our Lady of Health Church in the town of Shirva, Karnataka. Rev. Wi…
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…After the service, there will be a private cremation service in Mortlake, south-west London. It is understood that Margaret Thatcher wished to be laid to rest alongside her husband, Denis, who died in 2003, in the cemetery of the Royal Hospital Chelsea….
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r. Dressed in white, Jenni Rivera’s family led the memorial service as images of the singer played on three large screens. “We’re not here to mourn the death,” her son Michael, 21, told more than 6,000 mourners who packed the theatre for the service lasting nearly two-and-a-half-hours. “We’re here to celebrate the life and graduation of a singer, an entertainer,…
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