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The Queen Mother’s funeral arrangements in 2002 cost more than £5.4 million. A fly-past and a lying-in-state in Westminster Hall were among the events honouring King George VI’s consort. Policing costs amounted to £4.3 million and the Queen Mother’s lying-in-state came to £825,000, according to a House of Commons research briefing paper. Pallbearers carry the coffin of the Queen Mother past massed Army pipers during her funeral procession in central London (PA) With Buckingham Palace scaling the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral back and removing the public elements of the day due to pan...

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MK2 Films Boards Russian Satirical Drama 'House Arrest;' Reveals First Still (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail MK2 Films has come on board to handle world sales on “House Arrest,” a satirical drama directed by critically acclaimed Russian helmer Aleksey German Jr. (“Dovlatov”) that tackles Russia’s judicial system. “House Arrest” follows David, a Russian university professor who takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration and the Mayor’s dodgy dealings. But David soon finds himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arr...

NOW Magazine Review: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ Carnage is a monumental triumph The frequent collaborators give a troubled world a place to turn on their surprise album By Mike Usinger Joel Ryan A couple of years ago – before the time of the world’s great undoing – Nick Cave found himself in British Columbia’s Massey Theatre. The occasion was one of his Conversations With… shows, and he spent part of the night solo at the piano, and most of the evening answering questions from fans. One of those questions spiralled off into a self-assessment of his life’s work, the sin...

He then confirmed that he and Bad Seeds bandmate and longterm collaborator Ellis had been back in the studio to work on a new album called ‘Carnage’ and described the record as “a brutal but very beautiful record embedded in a communal catastrophe”. Advertisement Now, the duo have surprise released the album digitally and on streaming before a physical CD and vinyl release follows on May 28. Listen to the album below, and check out NME’s five-star review here. Cave said that his inspiration came from “reading, compulsively writing and just sitting on my balcony thinking about th...