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The demolition of London's iconic Earl's Court

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It's the place where Queen Mum surprised a stranger in the bath and Margaret 'took cocaine' with Jagger - now Earls Court's for the wrecking ball

The demolition men will soon be moving in to London's Earl's Court exhibition centre as part of an £8bn project to build new homes, reducing its famous art deco facade (inset) to rubble. 

In 1986 the Queen Mother visited the iconic venue for the Ideal Home Exhibition, where she chatted to a bathing model, while her daughter Princess Margaret was allegedly invited backstage by Mick Jagger (pictured with the princess top right) at a Rolling Stones concert. 

Take That (lower right) performed at Earl's Court earlier this month for the BBC Music Awards - which could be one of the last events to be held there.

Mandy Rice-Davies and Lady Thatcher Secret Pals

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Maggie, Mandy and a most improbable friendship: Thought Profumo temptress Mandy Rice-Davies had no secrets left? Here's the most startling yet!

Following her death from cancer last week at the age of 70, it has emerged that Mandy Rice-Davies (right) and Lady Thatcher (left) would eventually become so well-acquainted as to spend time on holiday together in the Nineties. Though she never spoke publicly about their relationship, and succeeded in keeping it from being reported by the Press during Thatcher's lifetime, it appears that Rice-Davies counted photographs of those trips among her most valued possessions.

Vintage Jamaica

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Professor Trevor Munroe has stressed that the Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ), the communist organisation he led in the 1970s and early '80s, had no part in the bloody 1983 coup in Grenada, in which then Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who led the New Jewel Movement, was among several government members killed: http://bit.ly/1wnZrQo

Photo: Dr Trevor Munroe leads his party at solidarity rally in this June 1985 file photograph. - Archives

April Douglas