WEST END NEWS FREE
May 2012
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Dressed to impress! To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, London’s West End is being dressed to impress, with 4m long Union Jack flags adorning iconic streets and landmarks including Oxford Street, Regent Street and Coventry Street, Heddon Street and Swallow Street, the Covent Garden Market Building and Liberty’s famous mock Tudor facade.
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In the spirit of the Jubilee weekend, a huge deconstructed Union flag covered in Goodge Street thousands of metallic red, white and blue St shimmer discs has been proudly suspended ge od Go in the centre of Carnaby Street. Plus, the famous giant plug and socket on Ganton Street hasehad a makeover with a stencilled r St rtim unionMoflag, and is adorned with 25 colour changing red, white and blue LED tubes. The world famous ‘Welcome to Carnaby rd St vinyl Oxfoflag Street’ arch is covered in Union for the Diamond Jubilee period and Oxford Circus 520 metres of bunting has been zigzagged throughout the area. Even the window SOHO boxes throughout the area are themed with statement red, white and blue flowers!
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