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Crowds gather in London to show support on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. IMAGES
Queen Elizabeth II's coffin leaves St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh for a flight back to London where it will be displayed to the public for several days ahead of her funeral next week. The monarch's only daughter Princess Anne is accompanying the casket which will be flown from Edinburgh to an air base west of London before the coffin procession makes its way to Buckingham Palace. 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
Smoke rises from fires in Dartford, south of the UK's River Thames, and in Wennington, close by on the north side. Multiple fires have been sparked across the UK after temperatures rose above 40C for the first time ever. 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