Saturday 2nd June - Tuesday 5th June
To mark 60 years of the Queens reign, the Diamond Jubilee national celebrations will centre around an extended weekend in 2012 from Saturday 2nd - Tuesday 5th June.
Leicester will be celebrating this momentous occasion in a variety of ways with the beacon lighting, Big Lunch, street parties and coverage of key BBC events will be shown on the Big Screen in Humberstone Gate over the weekend.
In addition the Queen will mark her Diamond Jubilee with a series of
regional visits and engagements throughout the UK and Leicester was the first stop on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee tour.
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