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Scores of international films are shown in this three-week festival when cinemas, including the National Film Theatre, reduce prices. A booth is set up in Leicester Square to take bookings and distribute programmes.
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26.3-mile (42-km) road race from Greenwich Park to Westminster.
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Every year, the City of London elects a Lord Mayor who processes through the Square Mile in a gilded coach. Military bands, floats and city guildsmen in traditional costume go from Guildhall to the Law Courts. Evening fireworks.
Lord Mayor’s Show
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This three-day Caribbean festival is Europe’s largest carnival, with steel bands and DJ’s playing all imaginable kinds of music, street food, brilliant costumes and lively dancers. Children’s parades on Sunday, grown-ups’ on Monday.
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The two universities’ annual rowing race covers some 6.5 km (4 miles) on the Thames.
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Around 1,000 works are selected from the public and academicians for the art world’s most eclectic summer show. Works sell for as little as £100.
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All London Society goes to the races in top hats and other glamorous creations.
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Annual rugby union contest with England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
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The Queen celebrates her official birthday on Horse Guards Parade where troops of the Household Division, in their famous red tunics and bearskin hats, put on an immaculate display of marching and drilling before escorting her to Buckingham Palace.
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The Oxford-Cambridge rugby union duel.
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