Tag: Buckingham Palace

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 07:09 UTC

  Top artists concert for Diamond Jubilee and 4.000 beacons through out the world

  

  Queen' Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee will be marked with a star-studded concert in front of Buckingham Palace later on Monday. Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John are among the artists, and Madness will perform on the roof.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  World-wide celebrations as Overseas Territories honour Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

  

  Like many other countries around the world, the UK's Overseas Territories will be marking The Queen's Diamond Jubilee by lighting Beacons. They will join the Beacon lighting across the UK, continuing a tradition, first started to communicate but now carried out as a symbol of unity.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:23 UTC

  Former councillor Cockwell receives OBE from the Queen for promoting Falklands internationally

  

  Former Falkland Islands elected Councillor Richard Cockwell last week received his OBE from Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Richard was awarded the honour for his work promoting the Falklands internationally.

• Friday, January 27th 2012 - 11:25 UTC

  Petrobras admits oil leak off the coast of southern Brazil

  

  Transpetro, a subsidiary of Brazil's state-run energy giant Petrobras, said Thursday it had detected an oil leak off the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state but did not know how much had spilled.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 01:58 UTC

  “The Tigers”: from Buckingham Palace changing the guard to the Falklands

  

  Soldiers from the Portsmouth area have swapped Royal duties for freezing Falkland Islands training reports the Portsmouth media. Up to 120 members of the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have travelled the 8,000 miles south from London to the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 19:29 UTC

  Royal 41-gun salute for the US President Obama at Buckingham Palace

  

  US President Barack Obama received a royal 41-gun salute at Buckingham Palace Tuesday to begin a two-day state visit aimed at ensuring the United States and Britain keep the “special” in their relationship.