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Ronald Reagan to be honoured with a London statue

Former US president Ronald Reagan is set to be honoured with a statue in central London.

Westminster City Council granted planning permission for the sculpture to be erected outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.

To allow the statue to go ahead, the council has changed its usual policy of allowing memorials only to people who have been dead for 10 or more years.

Steve Summers, chairman of Westminster City Council's planning applications sub committee, said: "Regardless of politics, nobody can dispute that President Reagan was a true ally of this country
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)