the queen s lying in state formally ended at 6.30 this morning. the past four days have seen queues stretching five miles along the south bank of the river thames. but the opportunity to witness the scene in person has now ended. and the next time we see the coffin, draped in the royal standard, it will be brought from the palace of westminster on the state gun carriage to westminster abbey for the funeral service at 11 o clock. following the funeral service, the queen s coffin will be drawn by more than 100 naval ratings in a long procession from the abbey to wellington arch at london s hyde park corner. there are more than 3,000 military personnel taking part in the procession. it s nearly a500 if you include all those taking place at windsor. and at wellington arch, the coffin will be transferred to the state hearse for its final journey to the queen s main home windsor castle where a procession will make its way up the long walk and on to st george s chapel where
the queue to see the queen lying in state it s close to full capacity, with a waiting time of at least 2a hours. military rehearsals have been taking place in windsor ahead of the queen s funeral on monday. away from westminster, today s other headlines. ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside izyum, a city that was recently regained from russian forces. the premier league returned with fans and players paying their own respects to the queen. it s saturday, 17th september. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a third night lying in state. people hoping to pay their respects at westminster hall are being told not to travel tojoin the queue, as it s almost at capacity, with waiting times at least 2a hours long. last night king charles, the princess royal, prince andrew and prince edward held a silent vigil by their mother s coffin. in conversation with some of the people who have been arriving here, they have be
intense emergency virtue signaling, while the island s uber wealthy, uber-woke residents, they booted all of their newly arrived guests out of town. they re gone. as of 8 o clock a.m. this morning the 50 illegal immigrants who flew in from florida were rounded up, loaded on to buses and shiped to a military base. how loving, thoughtful, and acam dating of the left. according to local democrats, there just wasn t enough room on the 55 thousand acre island for the 50 illegal immigrants, not our problem. they were saying. you have the liberal racist xenophobia, let s say millionaires, billionaires who live on the island. they just say they don t have enough resources to acam date them. i m not buying that. over at msdn cish you have check todd saying that the situation was inhumane because of a lack of infrastructure. what about texas at 1. 1,000,000,000 illegals this year alone? never mind the nearly 2 million last year. now, it s not clear if chuck was worried about the illega
the chance of rain particularly with all these weather fronts around. on friday there will still be some sunshine around but more showers will break out and they contain heavy and thundery. drifting across northern england and into scotland. a rain arriving in the south west of england and wales. temperatures will be lower on friday, 21 and 22. still some warm weather for eastern parts of england if we miss the heavy showers. but instead of high pressure that has brought warm weather and sunshine, low pressure will be in charge this weekend, bringing stronger wind and most of the rain across the western side of the rain across the western side of the uk. it could be heavy and thundery. looking drier, sunnier and warmer on the eastern side of the uk. thanks, darren. and that s bbc news at ten on wednesday the 22nd ofjune. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with mark urban, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one a
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