Dawn military rehearsal for Margaret Thatcher funeral

Major Andrew Chatburn, who is in charge of choreographing Baroness Thatcher's funeral parade, says it has been created paying respect to the wishes of the deceased.
A full military rehearsal for Baroness Thatcher's funeral has taken place in the early hours of this morning.
Major Andrew Chatburn, the man in charge of choreographing the parade, said the rehearsal "went very well" and claimed it was "vitally important" to stage a trial of Wednesday's event.
More than 700 serving Armed Forces personnel gathered in central London before dawn as a Union flag-draped coffin was carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage from St Clement Danes, the church of the Royal Air Force, down the Strand to St Paul's Cathedral.
The procession band played the funeral marches of Chopin, Beethoven and Mendelssohn as it made its way along the deserted streets.
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