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The Swindon Pride committee are on the lookout for new volunteers to get involved.

The Swindon Pride committee are on the lookout for new volunteers to get involved.

The Pride flag is flying above Swindon Borough Councils offices for the first time ever.

Westminster’s Central Lobby tiles restored after nine-year project Nicholas Cecil They bore the footsteps of Churchill, Gladstone and other political greats and now nine years of painstaking work has been completed with the last of nearly 60,000 brightly-coloured new tiles laid in Westminster’s famous Central Lobby. The historic jigsaw was first put down some 150 years ago on the floor of Parliament’s most public meeting place. But it became so worn that the parliamentary ...

By Press Association 2021 Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, with the restored tiled floors in Parliament (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/PA) The final handmade tile in the restoration of a lobby at the heart of the Palace of Westminster has been laid. Almost 60,000 have been restored and replaced in the middle of Central Lobby, including original ones which were designed by Augustus Welby Pugin that would have carried the f...