Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association Annual Parade and Service

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal KG, KT, GCVO, Colonel in Chief The King’s Royal Hussars took the salute on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Annual Parade and Service of The Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association at the Cavalry Memorial adjacent to the Bandstand in Hyde Park. This was the 89th Anniversary of the unveiling and dedication of the Memorial. A total of 5 bands lead marching detachments of the Cavalry and Yeomanry Regimental Associations and Veterans ranging from World War 2 to Iraq and Afghanistan. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal lay the Combined Cavalry wreath at the Cavalry Memorial and then attended the open air church service which follows the march past for both serving and former soldiers of all Regiments of Regular Cavalry and many Yeomanry Regiments. Representatives of Commonwealth countries Australia, Canada, Fiji, India, New Zealand and, Pakistan also attended. The parade was commanded by General Sir Richard Shirreff KCB, CBE Colonel of The King’s Royal Hussars ...

One night stand: a dress sale like no other

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For 30 years One Night Stand has been hiring out beautiful designer evening dresses to savvy women from all over the UK as well as London, who know that hiring a dress is an economic alternative to forking out hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds on a gown you may only wear once or twice. Don’t forget that old adage – if it appreciates: buy it - if it depreciates: hire ...

‘I’ll be racing for Boston,’ says McFadden

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Paralympic star Tatyana McFadden will "race for Boston" when she competes for the women's wheelchair title at the 2013 Virgin London Marathon this Sunday, 21 April. McFadden burst through the tape to win the Boston Marathon on Monday just two hours before the finish area was rocked by explosions. Six days on she will take to the start line for the London race, the second part of the inaugural Boston-London Wheelchair ...

Sunwalk launches as Battersea park

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Gaby Roslin, Harriet Thorpe and charity founder Nina Barough will be brought all the fun of the circus to Battersea Park bandstand on Wednesday 27th March in their launch of this summer’s fun family fundraising event – The SunWalk, organised by breast cancer charity Walk The Walk. Fortunately for them the signs of winter melted away and the sun was out. Now that spring is slowly creeping upon us (or so we ...