The Rotary Club of Silloth on Solway will be joining the nation in lighting a beacon for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. 

More than 2,800 Platinum Jubilee beacons will be lit across the globe in honour of the Queen’s 70-year reign. 

The club has announced plans to light a beacon for the celebrations at 9.45 on the evening of June 2. 

The Beacon will be lit on the mound by Silloth RNLI station, making it one of over 2,022 lit by charities, communities and faith groups from all over the UK.

Tim Barker of Silloth Rotary Club said: "Silloth will be celebrating this momentous anniversary with two days of events on Silloth Green, and our simple lighting ceremony will be an appropriate end to the first day. 

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"We are honoured to be part of this special event for Her Majesty the Queen’s 70th year as our Monarch and Head of the Commonwealth on her Platinum Jubilee," he said. 

Bruno Peek OBE, pageantmaster of The Queen’s Jubilee Platinum Beacons said: "Building on a long tradition of lighting beacons to mark significant royal celebrations, thousands of beacons will be lit across the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth They will enable local communities to join together to pay tribute to Her Majesty as part of the official programme of events.

"For the first time, town criers, pipers, buglers and choirs from the UK and the Commonwealth will come together to join in the celebrations in their own individual and special way. It is wonderful to see the range of support for beacon lighting, which will highlight both the diversity and unity of the nation and the Commonwealth. The Queen has lit up our lives for 70 years through her dedicated service and commitment. We would like to light up the nation and the Commonwealth in her honour," he said. 

Beacons will be lit in all 54 Commonwealth capitals and the main beacon lighting will take place in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening June 2 - taking the form of a lighting installation with The Queen’s Green Canopy Tree of Trees sculpture and projections onto the front of Buckingham Palace.

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