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Greenwich celebrated officially becoming a Royal Borough today as the Royal Charter was delivered to the Town Hall.

The status was bestowed by The Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee and this weekend will see a range of celebrations across Greenwich to celebrate the event, culminating in a fireworks display at the Old Royal Naval College on Sunday evening.

A spectacular firework display will mark the end of a weekend of celebrations as Greenwich becomes a Royal Borough.

The waterfront display will be set to music at the Old Royal Naval College and will start at 6pm, ending a whole day of celebrations in the town on February 5.

Greenwich will officially become a Royal Borough next month.

The Queen bestowed the honour on the borough last year, and the Council has confirmed that the title of the Royal Borough of Greenwich will be formally adopted on February 3 - and it will prompt a weekend of celebrations across the area.

The Queen will reopen the restored Cutty Sark next year as part of the celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee.

Leader of Greenwich Council, Cllr Chris Roberts has revealed that The Queen will be in the town next spring to officially reopen the tea clipper, which has been undergoing a multi-million pound restoration for the last five years.

Docklands Sinfonia performed for The Queen at Buckingham Palace as part of a special reception celebrating the country's promising young talent in the arts yesterday.

Docklands Sinfonia's founder and musical director Spencer Down said: "It was a great day and went really well, we got the call inviting us to perform for the Queen and only had two days to rehearse."

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be marked by the largest river pageant since the reign of Charles II.

The monarch intends to celebrate her 60 years on the throne in style, leading a flotilla of 1,000 boats along the Thames in June 2012.

The Queen was in Canary Wharf this morning visiting KPMG's new UK headquarters.

Dressed in mauve she was welcomed with cheers, applause and waving flags before touring the building and meeting some of the 4,000 staff based there.

Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed it would be a "beacon to the world" but for many years Greenwich's Millennium Dome was a national embarrassment.

A decade has passed since one of the most recognisable landmarks in London opened.

Greenwich has been granted royal borough status although it will have to wait two years to officially use the title.

The title, which will take effect from 2012, was conferred by the Queen to recognise the close and historic links between Greenwich and royalty.

By Tim Archer

This week I had the great privilege to attend a Tower Hamlets Citizenship ceremony at the Tower of London.

Some 32 individuals representing 17 nationalities took the oath to The Queen and the British way of life.

Russell Brand: Scandalous
The O2 arena
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"Russell Brand goes for the jugular and the undergarment with the same sense of glint-eyed, orgiastic devilment."

By Julia Gregory

The Queen picked the perfect day to visit an umbrella factory as the heavens opened an hour before she looked round Fulton's factory in Blackwall. In company with the Duke of Edinburgh, she visited the family run business, which was awarded the Royal Warrant for supplying her umbrellas in January this year.

Workers in east London were treated to a royal visit today (March 25).

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh dropped in on staff at the Britvic factory in Beckton, the Fulton umbrella factory in Canary Wharf and the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Click through for more pictures.