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Queen Elizabeth: UK Police Announces Plans To Step Up Security

As the British government prepares to stage their first state funeral in nearly six decades, the security officials are also planning what has been slated to be the “biggest policing and protective operation” in UK history.

The Police has also announced that they are dusting off long-standing plans to keep safe attendees — including some of the global political leaders and royalty — at Queen Elizabeth II’s historic funeral, as well as the millions which had been predicted to flock to London around the time of the event.

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UK Prepares To Extend Virus Lockdown - Peak Hasn't Passed

UK Prepares To Extend Virus Lockdown – Peak Hasn’t Passed

The British government warned Monday it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he recovers from his own bout of COVID-19, said there were some “positive” signs of progress.

But he warned at a daily media briefing: “We’re still not past the peak of this virus.”

The government must decide by Thursday whether to maintain three-week-old lockdown rules to keep schools and shops shut and order people …