Great Jubilee clear-up underway

It is the morning after the Bank Holiday weekend before. After one million people packed into the Mall on Monday and Tuesday, today the thoroughfare was deserted - except of course, for the clean-up crews.

Almost 25,000 people filled Buckingham Palace gardens on Saturday and Monday evenings, while outside the crowd for Monday's pop concert totalled more than one million.

The revellers uncorked at least 50,000 champagne bottles, drinking 37,500 litres of bubbly. They emptied more than one million soft drinks and beer cans, and stayed to see almost three tons of fireworks released in the space of 14 minutes.

The Metropolitan Police put 10,000 officers on the streets around the Palace, but they made just a handful of minor arrests. Yesterday afternoon's processions up the Mall saw 20,000 performers and uniformed service members parade in front of the Queen, watched by a crowd of more than one million, who witnessed the finale of 26 RAF aircraft, a single Concorde and nine Red Arrows flying overhead at 1,500 feet.

And the final statistic? The 200 tons of rubbish left behind. This was being ably cleared up today by a team of almost 100 refuse collectors, at the end of what was surely the biggest party of the last 50 years.

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