Diamond Jubilee: More than 60 beacons to be lit in Suffolk - BBC News

4 June 2012 Last updated at 07:40 ET

Beacons are being lit between 22:00 and 22:30 BST on Monday

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More than 60 beacons will be lit around Suffolk on Monday night to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Town councils, businesses, communities and churches will light the torches between 22:00 and 22:30 BST.

In Ipswich, a volunteer from the town's winter night shelter has been given the honour of lighting a beacon at Christchurch Park.

Paul Herbert said he was "gobsmacked" to have received the recognition for his work for homeless people.

"It's quite daunting to think that I'm going to help light the official beacon," he said.

Fireworks will follow the lighting of the beacon.

'Alternative Jubilee'

In Woodbridge, a beacon is being lit at Kingston playing field.

There will also be a fireworks display by the riverside and also an alternative Jubilee party at the Tea Hut.

Mark Moore from S Express will join Ben Osborne and other DJs for the Jubilee Curiosity Disco, which is also marking 175 years since Queen Victoria inherited the throne in 1837.

Philip Hope-Cobbold has invited people to his Glemham Hall estate, in Little Glemham, for the lighting of a beacon.

"The beacon is going to be about 80ft up on the roof of the house, looking out towards the A12", he said.

He said the pageant master of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacons, Bruno Peek, had given him strict instructions.

"My beacon lighting time, that I've had from Bruno Peek, is precisely 10.01pm - no earlier, no later," he said.

Beacons will be lit in other locations around the county including at Beck Row, Bacton, Hartest, Stoke by Nayland, Kettleburgh and Brandon.

In Pakefield, a candlelit service will take place at 22:00 BST on the cliff top near the Trowel and Hammer pub, before the lighting of the beacon at 22:15 BST.

A brass band will accompany the lighting of a beacon at the cliff top car park in Felixstowe.

The Queen will light the National Beacon at 22:30 BST in London following a music concert outside Buckingham Palace.

Diamond Jubilee: More than 60 beacons to be lit in Suffolk - BBC News

4 June 2012 Last updated at 07:40 ET

Beacons are being lit between 22:00 and 22:30 BST on Monday

Continue reading the main story

• Pomp and celebrations defy rain


• Guide to Jubilee weekend events


• Thousands cheer Queen in pageant


• Royal couple join street party

More than 60 beacons will be lit around Suffolk on Monday night to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Town councils, businesses, communities and churches will light the torches between 22:00 and 22:30 BST.

In Ipswich, a volunteer from the town's winter night shelter has been given the honour of lighting a beacon at Christchurch Park.

Paul Herbert said he was "gobsmacked" to have received the recognition for his work for homeless people.

"It's quite daunting to think that I'm going to help light the official beacon," he said.

Fireworks will follow the lighting of the beacon.

'Alternative Jubilee'

In Woodbridge, a beacon is being lit at Kingston playing field.

There will also be a fireworks display by the riverside and also an alternative Jubilee party at the Tea Hut.

Mark Moore from S Express will join Ben Osborne and other DJs for the Jubilee Curiosity Disco, which is also marking 175 years since Queen Victoria inherited the throne in 1837.

Philip Hope-Cobbold has invited people to his Glemham Hall estate, in Little Glemham, for the lighting of a beacon.

"The beacon is going to be about 80ft up on the roof of the house, looking out towards the A12", he said.

He said the pageant master of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacons, Bruno Peek, had given him strict instructions.

"My beacon lighting time, that I've had from Bruno Peek, is precisely 10.01pm - no earlier, no later," he said.

Beacons will be lit in other locations around the county including at Beck Row, Bacton, Hartest, Stoke by Nayland, Kettleburgh and Brandon.

In Pakefield, a candlelit service will take place at 22:00 BST on the cliff top near the Trowel and Hammer pub, before the lighting of the beacon at 22:15 BST.

A brass band will accompany the lighting of a beacon at the cliff top car park in Felixstowe.

The Queen will light the National Beacon at 22:30 BST in London following a music concert outside Buckingham Palace.

Guest on Royal Barge at Diamond Jubilee pageant 'was sex offender'

“I was given the invitation and I attended," he said.

"The fact that the Prince of Wales invited me clearly shows what I have done for the community since then.”

Mr Singh Rana, who lives in Walsall in the West Midlands, added: "I don’t know what checks they do or how they do them.”

Steve McCabe, MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, who sits on the Home Affairs select committee, said he was "flabbergasted" by the "astonishing" security lapse.

“There should be a police investigation into how this was allowed to happen. Who the prince wants to entertain in private is his concern, but this was a public event. Questions need to be answered," he said.

Mr Singh Rana was convicted of five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and one count of attempted assault in August 1986.

At his trial, the court heard he posed as a doctor to con his way into the women's homes before subjecting them to internal examinations and giving them injections.

Faced with opposition to his inclusion on the Inner Cities Religious Council from the Sikh Secretariat in 2002, Mr Singh Rana said: "I have never tried to hide my convictions, even though the evidence presented was contentious. Are they saying rehabilitation and forgiveness should not exist? What I should be judged on is the work I've done in the Sikh community since that date."

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Pop royalty marks Queen's Jubilee

4 June 2012 Last updated at 00:01 ET

Monday's A-list BBC concert starts at 19:30 BST

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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be marked with a star-studded BBC concert in front of Buckingham Palace later.

Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John are among the artists, and Madness will perform on the roof.

The audience will comprise of people who got tickets in a public ballot and those from charities with royal links.

At the end of the show, the Queen will light one of the last of around 4,500 beacons across the globe - in celebration of her 60-year reign.

On Monday afternoon, prior to the Jubilee concert, 10,000 ballot winners and VIPs will have a picnic in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

The concert follows Sunday's spectacular River Thames pageant which attracted more tens of thousands of rain-soaked people to watch the flotilla of 1,000 boats.

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Analysis Peter Hunt News correspondent

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After a pageant on the Thames - where the elements weren't kind but the enthusiasm of the spectators was undimmed - a change of scene and tempo.

At the end of the Golden Jubilee concert, Sir Paul McCartney asked the Queen, "Are we doing this next year?" "Not in my garden" came the regal reply.

Ten years on, she's had her way. The BBC concert will be staged outside the palace gates. The official guests will reflect the changes in a decade. Camilla Parker Bowles is now the Duchess of Cornwall and a future queen. Rupert Murdoch was invited last time. Will any newspaper proprietors be invited this time?

At the end of the concert, the Queen - who at 86, probably won't sit through all of the performances and who may well come armed with ear plugs as she did in 2002 - will light one of the last of more than 4,000 beacons around the world.

The Queen travelled in a barge alongside senior members of the Royal Family as street parties were held around the country.

Monday's A-list concert, which starts at 19:30 BST (18:30 GMT), will also star Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran, JLS, Kylie Minogue, Sir Tom Jones, Jessie J, Dame Shirley Bassey and Annie Lennox.

And it will feature a special song - sung by 200 people from around the Commonwealth - co-written for the occasion by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Motown legend Wonder has said: "It's an honour to celebrate The Queen. It's an honour to celebrate Great Britain. The time is overdue that I meet Her Majesty."

The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry will join the Queen at the concert.

An artist's impression of the stage, designed by architect Mark Fisher

Pop veterans Madness will play their hit Our House on the roof of Buckingham Palace - echoing Queen guitarist Brian May's performance of the National Anthem in 2002 for the Golden Jubilee.

After the musical tribute, the Queen will greet the crowds and set the national beacon ablaze.

At 22:30 BST (21:00 GMT), she is scheduled to place a crystal glass diamond into a special pod, triggering the lighting of the last beacon in The Mall.

Beacons will be lit throughout the evening in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, the Commonwealth and other overseas territories.

Bruno Peek, pageantmaster of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee beacons, said: "We set out to have 2,012 beacons, which would have been the most ever for this type of occasion.

"To have reached double that figure reflects the national and worldwide respect and affection for the Queen and the desire to celebrate her 60-year reign."

The network of beacons across the UK will be placed on historic landmarks, hill-top vantage points and famous mountains.

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Diamond Jubilee beacons

• About 4,500 beacons will be lit in the UK, Commonwealth and overseas territories


• Beacons in the UK and British dependencies will be lit in stages between 22:00 and 22:30


• The Queen will light the National Beacon near Buckingham Palace at 22:30


• Overseas beacons will be lit at 22:00 local time in countries including Canada, Australia and Kenya


• Two types of Beacons are used: Bonfires and the church tower beacon fuelled by bottled gas


• Beacons were lit on Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in and for 1977's Silver Jubilee

• Diamond Jubilee beacons interactive Map

Beacons will also be placed on the battlements of the Tower of London, and at St James's Palace, Lambeth Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham, Balmoral and Holyroodhouse.

Sixty will be lit in sequence on Hadrian's Wall - one for each year of the Monarch's reign.

And the highest peaks of the UK's four nations will be lit up by teams from four charities.

Help for Heroes will conquer Ben Nevis in Scotland, Walking With The Wounded will climb Snowdon in Wales, Cancer Research UK will scale England's Scafell Pike and in Northern Ireland, Field of Life will go up Slieve Donard in County Down.

The hotel in Kenya where the Queen was told in 1952 of her father George VI's death - which meant she would become the monarch - will also light a beacon.

Much like the conclusion of the Thames pageant, the evening will end with a firework display.

• The Diamond Jubilee Concert will be shown on BBC big screens in 22 towns and cities throughout the UK. Find your nearest screening here..

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