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Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. First up dance music venue managers are warning they need support after the Government delayed ‘freedom day’. Later today David Hockney says his deafness means he no longer goes to restaurants with lots of mirrors and hard surfaces. Then we look at whether Carrie Johnson has helped to usher out her employer’s prize elephants? In SW1A Tobias Ellwood MP cheekily suggests the £200 million royal yacht should be a converted warship since the cash is coming from the MoD budget.