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  • Two elderly passengers have stopped by in a retail space called World of Duty Free to taste Scottish Malt Whiskey in Terminal 5 at heathrow Airport. The two South-Africans travel widely across the world to visit their extended family and like to stop by this shop to try the various blends of Scotch with the help of a sales person who helps them decide which bottles to buy. Together they swallow the fine alcohol and taste its delicate and subtle differences. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Fragrance male model advertising images on screen matrix at World of Duty Free at Heathrow's Terminal 5.
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  • Two elderly passengers taste Scottish Malt Whiskey in a retail space called World of Duty Free in Heathrow airport's terminal 5
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  • Stacks of cigarette cartons are piled up in a display of duty free goods at Bahrain International airport . Camel Filters are featured more prominently here to suggest the importance of desert Gulf States like Bahrain in the global market. Bahrain is a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Duty free merchandise such as tobacco, jewellery, perfumes and electronics are big business here, favouring cheaper import duties and currency rates. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • While on ceremonial duties at the Queen's Buckingham Palace, members of the Welsh Guards prepare the finer details of uniform presentation at the Wellington barracks, opposite the Palace in central London, England. Buffing up their bearskin hats and brushing away any specks of dust from shoulders, they each help the other appear as near-perfect as they can before parading in front of thousands during the Changing of the Guard or at other times, during tropping of the Colour on the Queen's birthday occasion. Formed in 1915 by order of King George V,  have fought in every war since but are housed at the Wellington Barracks purely for ceremonial reasons, also serving on active duty in the world's trouble spots, where their professionalism is demanded by their British Ministry of Defence masters.
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  • Sailors on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day57-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Student officers and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day53-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Student officers and a rating on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day37-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Sailors on duty wait for a launch before going ashore during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day23-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Four members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles are on tactical manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough airfield, England. These Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves. The nearest to the camera points his weapon past the viewer with a yellow blank cover attached. .
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  • Student officers and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day55-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Student officers and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day54-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A student officer and a sailor rating on duty beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day51-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Two student officers on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day44-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Student officers and a rating on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day42-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A student officer on duty on the top deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day27-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers stand guarding a closed underground tube entrance at London's Victoria station. There is a tube strike and capacity is vastly reduced so numbers are being strictly restricted while the tube unions ask drivers and staff not to report for duty. Passengers queue patiently behind the barriers, their faces seen with resigned expressions, as Londoners are typically want to do.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police2-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Surrounded by personal effects and baggage, a US airman with the insignia for a Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt), awaits his flight in the terminal at Mildenhall air force base, Suffolk, England. Leaving England and a posting abroad, the man looks relaxed before a long flight back the USA after duty in Europe.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
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  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police3-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan police officers talk on duty while guarding Britain's parliament in Westminster, London.
    met_police1-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • An aerial view overlooking Processing at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • A memorial to a soldier named Gary Golbey wreaths lie after Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall, on 12th November 2019, in London, England. A Gulf War veteran who developed a brain tumour but went back on active service had died, aged 42. Colour Sergeant Gary Golbey, originally from Kidsgrove, was taken ill in 2005 when he was part way through his second tour of service in Iraq. But he fought back from his illness to return to the army while in remission. The champion Army boxer spent more than two decades with the Staffords – now 3 Mercian – and saw active service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq, where he completed two tours of duty.
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  • Duty Free customer and a picture of the Bay of Naples at Naples airport.
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  • City of London Policeman on duty in Trafalgar Square during England v USA World Cup match.
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  • City of London Policeman on duty in Trafalgar Square during England v USA World Cup match.
    police_trafalgar02-12-06-2010.jpg
  • City of London Policeman on duty in Trafalgar Square during England v USA World Cup match.
    police_trafalgar01-12-06-2010.jpg
  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    DIRFT135-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • An aerial view overlooking the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres such as DIRFT.
    DIRFT176-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    nine_elms_35.jpg
  • The legs of anonymous airline employees are seen from below a smoking screen that obscures their faces outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building. In afternoon sunshine, the women wear their airline uniforms and are sharing an off-duty puff on their cigarettes as part of their working shift at this international aviation hub. Without seeing their upper-bodies, we imagine their conversation and gossip. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1058-11-08-2009.jpg
  • A soldier with the Hungarian army on ceremonial duties in central Budapest, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    hungary_people13-18-06-1990.jpg
  • A couple compare prices of cigarette carton brands while shopping before flying from Heathrow Airport, on 8th February 1999, at London, England.
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  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
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  • A portrait of a Lance Corporal in the Rifles regiment of the British army next to the Olympic rings logo before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
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  • Royal Navy crew rest in the Junior Ratings wardroom aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
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  • Royal Navy crewman watches TV in the Junior Ratings wardroom aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine
    5105-RPB59-faslane177-26-09-2007.jpg
  • Police officers from Humberside in the North east of England stand in front of the main entrance to the Olympic Park as a visible presence during the London 2012 Olympics. More than 230 officers from across the Humber region travelled to London to help police the Olympic Games. Holidays were restricted, training reduced and special constables  drafted in to provide cover in Hull and the East Riding as officers were sent to London to police the city while the Games are on. Senior officers say they have been working hard to ensure "core policing" across Hull and the East Riding is not weakened.
    olympic_park02-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Arriving British Airways flight deck and cabin crew stride through arrivals after long-haul flight to Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1148-12-08-2009.jpg
  • Postal workers rest in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
    DIRFT194-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • Wearing a turban according to the beliefs of the Sikh faith, a Metropolitan police officer helps an Asian lady citizen outside Buckingham Palace, London England UK. At a time when the 'Met' were recruiting members of ethnic minorities to demonstrate their tolerance of other communities, this man is clearly a symbol of how Britain has changed, since the 1960s to a multi-cultural society. Pointing out direction to help the lady find her way, the officer proudly wears his turban of his religion.
    sikh_policeman01-21-04-1989.jpg
  • A Weapons Engineering Officer works in his cabin quarters aboard HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine.
    5105-RPB59-faslane118-26-09-2007.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Rifles regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster10-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Cyclists with soldiers the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.  A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster08-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Royal Artillery regiment in British army direct spectators while standing guard the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster03-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster01-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olsecure.  A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster24-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster09-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army helps tourists while standing guard the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster07-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster05-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Soldiers of the Royal Artillery regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster04-31-07-2012.jpg
  • A soldier of the British army stand guarding the entrance to the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
    olympics_westminster02-31-07-2012.jpg
  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-01-10-03-2022.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police03-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A sailor walks down the gangplank beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day52-11-05-2013.jpg
  • A close-up detail of a London Metropolitan police officer's face and helmet. Wearing a moustache and the famous tall helmet with the crest of the Met Police on the front.
    met_policeman01-20-03-1991.jpg
  • Eating women and a Met Police officer on a street corner in Leicester Square in central London.
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  • Security patrol in an urban landscape of modern architecture at Broadgate in the City of London.
    city_people12-31-07-2014.jpg
  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_police06-18-10-2013.jpg
  • A Chief Petty Officer near the Navy's Ensign flag on the hangar deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day50-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Belgravia home of the recently-deceased Baroness Margareth Thatcher, days after her death from a stroke at age 87. Her Chester Square house was Lady Thatcher's home from 1991 until she moved into the Ritz hotel in London at Christmas following an operation.
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  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Belgravia home of the recently-deceased Baroness Margareth Thatcher, days after her death from a stroke at age 87. Her Chester Square house was Lady Thatcher's home from 1991 until she moved into the Ritz hotel in London at Christmas following an operation.
    margaret_thatcher_home08-10-04-2013.jpg
  • Two Metropolitan Police officers patrol the tidal waters River Thames beneath the bow HMS Belfast warship in London, England. In their small boat used to police and often make searches of the river in central London, their searchlight watches for people in the water - especially on Fridays and around New year. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames).
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  • A woman police officer (WPC) stands with white paint plashed over her uniform during a public protest over the Poll Tax policies of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1990. It is dark and the trouble has been growing throughout the evening when the paint was thrown by unknown protesters. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Thatcher's local authority tax, eventually stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Police officers stand guarding the entrance of the official London 2012 merchandise shop - hours before another successful gold medal win, this time by Team GB triathlete Alistair Brownlee in the men's Triathlon during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The mid-week event surprisingly drew huge crowds into the capital's largest public (royal) park for an event, not usually attracting families with children who all enjoyed the fine weather and easy temperatures. A London 2012 merchandise shop was set up on the southern side and parents and kids used the exterior hoarding featuring iconic London landmarks such as Nelson's Column, St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge, to relax against after an early start from homes around the country
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  • One of the 18,000 British soldiers of the Royal Marines sits in a Games Maker's high chair to oversee an entrance to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. A total of 18,000 defence personel were called upon to make the Games secure following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. This land wastransformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • Sreeet sweeper reads a magazine during his morning shift at the Tower of London. .
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  • Cabin crew are briefed before a flight in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Cabin crew are briefed before a flight in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
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  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-03-10-03-2022.jpg
  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-04-10-03-2022.jpg
  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-02-10-03-2022.jpg
  • Fresh fruit is on display at a grocer's shop in Twickenham, on 10th March 2022, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-06-10-03-2022.jpg
  • An assortment of fruits including pears, satsumas, pomegranates and mangos are displayed outside on the high street, at a grocer's business in Peckham, on 21st November 2021, in London, England.
    fruit_stall-01-21-11-2021.jpg
  • Diplomatic protection police officer interacting with tourists at the gates of Downing Street, the Prime Minister's address in Westminster London.
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  • Beneath Corinthian pillars and columns, two Met Police officers keep a lookout from a balcony during the annual Trooping of the colour parade in the Mall. From their high vantagepoint, the two policemen watch spectator crowds as members of the armed services as they march past towards the nearby parade ground at Horseguards. Security is tight in an era of IRA terrorist activity in the early 1990s. The Sovereign's birthday is officially celebrated by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour on a Saturday in June.
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  • A Met Police officer wears a pollution mask while in traffic in central London. With elastic ties reaching behind his head, the policeman breathes easier in the presence of microscopic background bacteria particles and NO2 gas levels found in areas of heavy traffic, in large UK cities. His work takes him out into polluted areas and the Police Federation insist on protecting its union members from atmospheric harm.
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  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • Officers from the City of London police, man a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • A officer from the City of London police, questions a white van driver at a checkpoint looking for suspect vehicles and drivers entering at Aldgate, one the city entrance points into the Square Mile, the capital's financial and historic heart, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • A female member of a United Airlines crew flight attendant, nears the top of an escalator at the Chicago O'Hare airport terminal, USA.
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  • Royal Air Force officers formally await visiting foreign dignitaries at the BAE Systems stand during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. As an important trading partner, both the RAF and BAE Systems present a united front in the marketplace, each helping the other to promote the UK-PLC  brand and urging foreign governments to buy British. In the background is a BAE Systems Hawk attack and trainer jet aircraft used by the RAF and airforces in gthe middle-east. Operators of the Hawk include the Royal Air Force (notably the Red Arrows display team) as well a considerable number of foreign military operators. The Hawk is still in production in the UK and under licence in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with over 900 Hawks sold to 18 operators around the world.
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  • Sailors walk down the gangplank beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • A Chief Petty Officer near the Navy's Ensign flag on the hangar deck during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • A detail of the arms of a Royal Marines Commando guarding the top deck of HMS Illustrious during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier in Greenwich. The weapon is an SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) a British family of 5.56mm small arms. It is a selective fire, gas-operated assault rifle. The Royal Marine Corps (RM) is the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and forms part of the Naval Service (along with the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and associated organisations). The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as marine infantry for the Royal Navy. However, it can trace its origins back to the formation of "the Duke of York and Albanys maritime regiment of foot" at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664
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  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Belgravia home of the recently-deceased Baroness Margareth Thatcher, days after her death from a stroke at age 87. Her Chester Square house was Lady Thatcher's home from 1991 until she moved into the Ritz hotel in London at Christmas following an operation.
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  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Belgravia home of the recently-deceased Baroness Margareth Thatcher, days after her death from a stroke at age 87. Her Chester Square house was Lady Thatcher's home from 1991 until she moved into the Ritz hotel in London at Christmas following an operation.
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  • Metropolitan police officers guard the Belgravia home of the recently-deceased Baroness Margareth Thatcher, days after her death from a stroke at age 87. Her Chester Square house was Lady Thatcher's home from 1991 until she moved into the Ritz hotel in London at Christmas following an operation.
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  • Loondon 16/1/13: Aftermath of a helicopter crash into the crane constructing the residential skyscraper St George Tower at Vauxhall in south London. At approximately 08.00 the aircraft apparently crashed into the crane in freezing fog, landing in the road next to a mainline railway line. The tower is 181 metres (594 ft) tall with 49 storeys, now the tallest residential building in the United Kingdom. Its crane that operated on the side of the tower was torn away, landing below.
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  • Loondon 16/1/13: Aftermath of a helicopter crash into the crane constructing the residential skyscraper St George Tower at Vauxhall in south London. At approximately 08.00 the aircraft apparently crashed into the crane in freezing fog, landing in the road next to a mainline railway line. The tower is 181 metres (594 ft) tall with 49 storeys, now the tallest residential building in the United Kingdom. Its crane that operated on the side of the tower was torn away, landing below.
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  • Two Metropolitan Police officers patrol the tidal waters River Thames near Tower Bridge in London, England. In their small boat used to police and often make searches of the river in central London, their searchlight watches for people in the water - especially on Fridays and around New year. The Underwater and Confined Space Search Team (UCSST), are part of the Marine Support Unit and based at Wapping. They also carry out searches in canals, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. It was set up as a full time unit in 1964. One of their most distressing jobs, however, is recovering bodies from the River. On average over 50 people lose their lives in the Thames each year and about 80% of these are by suicide (usually by jumping off one of the many bridges that cross the Thames).
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  • A lady pilot examines flight data and documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • A pilot logs-on to access flight documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Safe pair of pilot's hands holds flight documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Male and female pilots examine flight data and documents in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • Safe pair of pilot's hands in the British Airways Crew Report Centre at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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