Platinum jubilee live update, events and times as bank holiday gets underway

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee is here with plans for a bumper weekend of celebrations across the country. Thursday 2 and Friday 3 June are both bank holidays, meaning Brits can enjoy a four-day break to honour the Queen's 70-year reign.

The four days of celebrations are set to include public events and community activities, to mark the Queen’s 7seven decades of service. If you are looking for some bigger events to enjoy across Wales read our list here.

An outdoor concert in the Welsh capital featuring some of Wales' biggest stars will lead the celebrations on Saturday. Other events planned include the lighting of more than 1,500 beacons around the country tonight to celebrate the milestone.

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Live under the Stars has announced the Cardiff Castle Jubilee Celebration Concert on Saturday, June 4, which will feature the likes of Aled Jones, Mike Peters, Bonnie Tyler and John Owen-Jones. The event, which will kick off at 3pm, will also see drumming weatherman Owain Wyn Evans take to the stage alongside funnyman Mike Doyle, the Pendyrus Male Voice Choir and the Welsh Pops Orchestra.

In London, the celebrations will kick off on Thursday with the traditional Trooping The Colour ceremony. It allows the troops of the Household Division - a group of seven army regiments - to pay a personal tribute to the sovereign. More than 1,500 officers and soldiers and 250 horses will stage the display on Horse Guards Parade, with the colour trooped by the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards.

Some 400 musicians from 10 military bands and corps of drums will march amid pomp and pageantry. After, a special flypast is due to take place, with dozens of aircraft from the Royal Navy, the