WITH final preparations underway in Ellesmere to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, locals are being encouraged to look the part by wearing a splash of red, white and blue.

The town’s library is holding another craft-making workshop two days festivities start so that people can create their own Union Jack rosettes and ties, using paper napkins.

This is the latest in a series of Jubilee activities organised by the team at the Our Space community centre in Trimpley Street over the past few weeks

The workshop will run from 10-30am until 2.30pm on Tuesday, May 31, led by library assistant Sally Poynton.

She said: “We’ve already held similar workshops, together with coffee mornings and quizzes, where people have been able to share memories of previous royal events.

"There’s a lot of excitement about the jubilee and we’re offering people a final chance to come along and really get involved by making something colourful to wear for the various festivities that are taking place nationally and locally.”

The library is showing old newsreels from the 1950s and offering borrowers a range of books covering the Queen’s 70-year reign. Quiz sheets are also available to people organising their own jubilee parties.