Earl and Countess of Wessex to attend Jubilee service
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are attending a special service at Gloucester Cathedral to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are attending a special service at Gloucester Cathedral to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
A hot air balloon was forced to land close to a busy road in Bath last night [Monday] after a two-hour flight over the city.
We take a look at when The Queen came to visit the region during her Diamond Jubilee year.
Our Gloucestershire Correspondent Ken Goodwin reports on the visit to the county by the Earl and Countess of Wessex as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Their day included an unusual tradition, the presentation of a lamprey pie.
Crowds are lining the streets of Gloucester this lunchtime to give the Earl and Countess of Wessex a royal welcome.
The couple are visiting the Cathedral to join in with Gloucestershire's celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are attending a special service at Gloucester Cathedral to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Read the full storyQuestions are being asked after a bus load of people from the West Country were stranded in the middle of the night in central London.
They'd travelled to the capital to work as stewards on the day of the Jubilee Pageant on The Thames.
The company that was supposed to be looking after them says the mix-up happened after their coach turned up in London 2 hours early. It has since apologised.
A West MP has called on the government to investigate claims that unpaid stewards from Bristol were told to sleep rough before working long shifts at the Jubilee celebrations.
Volunteers on the government's Work Programme were taken to London to help control crowds at Sunday's pageant on the Thames. But some have complained that they were told to sleep under a bridge before the 16-hour stint.
A security company has apologised.
Bristol West MP Stephen Williams has written to the work and pensions secretary to complain.
Robert Murphy reflects on four days of celebration that won't be repeated for generations - the Diamond Jubilee has been marked with everything from street parties to beacons and big concerts. Almost wherever you looked, the West played its part in the biggest party seen for years.
Ken Goodwin has been in Gloucester where celebrations carry on for the last day of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The rain may be here to stay, but it's not putting people off making the best of the bank holiday.
One of the highlights of the last few days has been the beacons which were lit across the country.
The Queen lit the national beacon last night at a special ceremony in London - one of 4,000 lit across the country.
Many of those were here in the West and Daisy Gray was on the Downs in Bristol to see the bonfire being lit.
Schoolchildren across the region have been busy learning about the monarchy from those who witnessed the Coronation first hand.
Pupils in Somerset were joined in class and in song by some of those who've lived throguh the Queen's 60-year reign.