10 facts about Parliament please for dd's homework!!! to hand in tomorrow

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Hmmm dd has just declared she hasnt done her history homework which is to find 10 facts about Parliament.

Please can you help.

www.parliament.uk/faq/faq.cfm Try this!!!

Some of the policemen who work there,stay overnight in the basement.
(My bil is one of them)

there are 39 steps leading to big ben

Moondog - dd wants to know if the policemen are working, why are they staying overnight in the basement (think she must mean sleeping)?

and she says Thank you for the info

Guy Fawkes tried to blow it up- The Gunpowder Plot.

The Queen opens it every year.