... AS JUBILEE HITS THE BIG SCREEN

OUTDOOR TV screens will be set up across the UK next month for revellers to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Huge screens broadcasting all major events will be placed in The Mall and St James’s Park in central London as well as Bute Park in Cardiff.

Thousands can also watch the TV celebrations in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens where Royal Marines and local performers will provide live entertainment.

In another move to mark the occasion, the BBC is offering communities a one-off TV licence dispensation so they can stream the celebrations at town halls, street parties and other mass gatherings.

More than 70,000 Big Jubilee Lunches are also planned in the four UK nations, with ten million people expected to celebrate with their neighbours on Sunday, June 5.

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said she hoped people would ‘come together to pay tribute to Her Majesty – whether that be to watch on big screens or toast Her Majesty at a Big Jubilee Lunch’.