Eco-zealots Just Stop Oil vowed to ‘occupy Westminster’ as part of a nationwide demonstration targeting more than 50 cities, towns and villages across the country.
Octopus Energy boss Greg Jackson said customers could not understand why standing charges – the part of a bill they pay regardless of how much energy is used – were so high.
Tearful crowds watched as the Queen’s funeral procession through Whitehall and past the Cabinet War Rooms, Cenotaph and Downing Street on Monday
The disgraced Duke of York – a Falklands War veteran who exiled from public life amid the fallout from his role in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal – wore a black morning suit for today’s sombre occasion.
The incident, which took place from an Air Force C-130 transport plane flying over Italy, was luckily not deadly as the unidentified soldier’s reserve inflated seconds before he hit the ground.
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is due to arrive at the Palace of Holyroodhouse tomorrow before a service at St Giles Cathedral on Monday.