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| daib0 | 13 Apr 2016, 08:53 AM Post #1 |
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Get Reading Reading, Bracknell and Wokingham councils all decline roles in Queen's birthday beacon celebrations The event will see over 1,000 fires lit across the UK - but not in Reading, Wokingham or Bracknell Reading will be a missing link in a chain of beacons lit on April 21 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday. The borough council will not be joining the international celebration which will see 1,000 fires blaze across the UK and Commonwealth countries. Reading royalists will have to travel to Thatcham for the nearest site able to accommodate a big crowd although many smaller ceremonies will take place in villages surrounding Reading. Monarchists in Bracknell and Wokingham are also being denied a beacon of their own. All three towns in our part of the Royal county have decided not to participate in the Birthday Beacon whereas Newbury folk have the choice of two spectacles. Beacons will be lit at Newbury's Donnington Castle and also at the town's Victoria Park in the middle of the boating pond. Reading, Bracknell and Wokingham will instead mark the Queen's milestone with civic ceremonies and street parties during the official birthday weekend of June 11 and 12. On her actual birthday the Queen will be invited by Prince Charles to light the Principal Beacon at Windsor Castle on the evening of Thursday April 21. That will be the signal for towns and villages across the land to light their own beacons, raise a glass to the Queen and sing the National Anthem. In Thatcham, the celebration will be at Dunstan Green and has been orchestrated by community and civic manager Jennie Currie, with a donation from a resident funding the £299 official gas-fired beacon. She said: "It is very much a public turn-up event and the large open space can accommodate 1,000 people. The beacon will be turned on by the mayor and will burn for half an hour." In Aldermaston, the bells of St Mary's will ring out in celebration after the lighting of their beacon at 7.30pm, in the field opposite the church. In Finchampstead, a beacon will be lit on the tower of St James' Church at 7.30pm, followed by the cutting of a birthday cake and a glass of bubbly. - The Army Cadet Force is taking beacons to the top of the four highest peaks in the UK - Ben Nevis, Mount Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Slieve Donard. They will be lit by 7.15pm with all beacons lit by 8.30pm. The Queen has lit a beacon at her Silver Jubilee in 1977, at The Millennium, for her Golden Jubilee in 2002, to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005, at her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and last year for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. |
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| SuffolkRoyal | 13 Apr 2016, 09:34 AM Post #2 |
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Strange that no one's asked me to help out with a street party. I wonder why?
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| daib0 | 13 Apr 2016, 10:24 AM Post #3 |
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I bet the posh guys in Henley are doing something!
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