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IN BRIEF

oyal Mail recently unveiled four special postboxes across the UK to celebrate the coronation. The postboxes display the occasion’s official emblem and are located in Westminster, London; Edinburgh’s High Street; St John’s Street, in Cardiff; and Main Street, Royal Hillsborough, County Down.

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