Weatherday: Her Majesty

Today will be cloudy with the possibility of a few scattered showers.

Highest temperature locally about 6deg, but feeling colder in moderate north to north-east breezes. Cold again tonight.

On this day in 1952, Elizabeth II ascended the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. She is the longest-reigning monarch in British history and the world's longest-reigning current monarch.

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