Gary Barlow 'thrilled' with OBE in Queen's honours
The Queen has given Frodsham singer Gary Barlow an OBE in her Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours
The Queen has given Frodsham singer Gary Barlow an OBE in her Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours
You have been sharing your photos of the Diamond Jubillee beacons being lit across the region.
As the Jubilee celebrations reach their final day, we have complied a round up of your photos of street parties across the North West.
The Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team have lit a Diamond Jubilee beacon on Pendle Hill, near Clitheroe in Lancashire. The Beacon is one of a chain of 4,000 that lit across the UK, with the final one being lit by the Queen at the end of the Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace.
Chester's Jubilee Giants have been parading through the city. Sixty fibreglass figures, including one resembling Her Majesty, have been designed by local community groups.
A mammoth four-day weekend of Diamond Jubilee celebrations enters its third day today, as people celebrate The Queen's 60 year reign.
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Chester's Jubilee Giants have been parading through the city. Sixty fibreglass figures, including one resembling Her Majesty, have been designed by local community groups.
Pupils at the Flash Primary School in Buxton wrote to the Queen inviting her to the lighting.
Buckingham Palace wrote back politely turning down the offer.
But the children were rewarded with having the first beacon installed and will be the first to be lit tonight.
Hundreds of Jubilee Beacons will be lit across the region tonight to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
To find your nearest Beacon, click here.
The town is hoping to break the record for the world's longest street party, with its 1500 metre, 550 table event on the promenade. Amy Welch reports.