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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Ross Lydall and Jonathan Prynn

London in its crowning glory is set to deliver £50m boost for West End

London was on Thursday ramping up preparations for the Coronation — with the Tube roundel redesigned as a “crowndel” and a number of buses and hire bikes given a royal wrap.

Tube stations will also be decorated with souvenir posters while West End businesses predict a £50 million spending bonanza over the Coronation bank holiday weekend as tourists join the historic celebration of King Charles’s succession.

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