As the queen's barge approached and Tower Bridge lifted in salute, red white and blue streamers were tossed from the crowd.

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The court was told how the youth who admitted manslaughter, had control of the breeze block after it had been lifted onto the bridge's barrier.

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Two flood warnings for the River Teme at Bransford in Worcestershire and Stanford Bridge in Herefordshire have been lifted.

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Meanwhile, instead of letting the ribbons go, the girls had stayed attached to them, and the moon had lifted them up, sending them flying over the parapet and off the bridge: they described arcs in the air like divers and disappeared into the water.

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