Today, there isn't the Old Kids on the block. *lol*

Today, there isn't the Old Kids on the block. *lol*

Something creepy about still calling themselves "kids"

Here's a bunch of kids. A team of explorers play a game of cricket in London's Trafalgar Square to launch their expedition
to Mount Everest to play the world's highest game of cricket near Everest base camp at 16,945ft (5,165m).

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The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, on Tyneside, has been lit up red for Comic Relief to mark the launch of this year's Red Nose Day.

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The Hay Wain by John Constable, 1821

Constable's painting is based on a site in Suffolk, near Flatford on the river Stour. The hay wain, a type of horse-drawn cart, stands in the water in the foreground. Across the meadow in the distance on the right, is a group of haymakers at work. The cottage shown on the left was rented by a farmer called Willy Lott and stands behind Flatford Mill. Today, the cottage and river path are still much as they were in Constable's time.

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The first section of the roof support for the 2012 Olympic Stadium is put in to place at the site in Stratford, east London.

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Railway enthusiasts pack the platform at York station as the Peppercorn, the first new mainline steam locomotive to be built in
Britain for nearly 50 years, leaves for Newcastle on its first voyage with fare-paying passengers.

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The first section of the roof support for the 2012 Olympic Stadium is put in to place at the site in Stratford, east London.

What will the seating capacity be?

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The first section of the roof support for the 2012 Olympic Stadium is put in to place at the site in Stratford, east London.

What will the seating capacity be?

It will be 80,000 - but much of this will be 'temporary' and the seating capacity will shrink to 25,000 after ther games. London opted for the temporary design because Games organisers considered an 80,000-seat venue was unlikely to pay its way after 2012 and could become a white elephant.

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The Angel of the North sculpture is seen amid snow-covered hills in Gateshead, Tyneside.

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Snow falls in Parliament Square, London.

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Icicles hang from roadside barriers on the A57 Snake Pass in Derbyshire.

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A snow teddy in East Dulwich, London.

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A pelican hunkers down in St James's Park in London as the UK continues to struggle against its heaviest snowfall in 18 years.

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I reckon you could use some sunshine there in England!

Here's a statue of King Edward VII which stands at one Eastern entry to the Sydney (Australia) CBD. The sculptor was Thomas Brock, also responsible the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace in London.

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Workers in London return to their jobs after two days of widespread disruption caused by the snow.

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A car is seen through snow-covered branches in Overseal, Derbyshire.

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The Old Market Square in Nottingham as the UK prepares for a freezing weekend.

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I think England needs some heat from the colonies...


Not my image

Record temperatures accompanied by many bushfires.

In North Yorkshire, with turf racing abandoned, the gallops at Middleham exercised the racehorses in deep snow.

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