Plenty of volunteers to fire Jubilee salute

FIFTEEN islanders who were born in the year of the Queen's accession to the throne have been chosen to help fire a special salute.

They will fire a 21-gun Royal Salute on Tuesday 5 June as part of the Diamond Jubilee weekend celebrations.

The Castle Cornet Saluting Battery, which consists of local ex-servicemen and women, launched a recruiting drive to find islanders born in 1952 at the beginning of March.

Battery Sergeant Major Keith Pike said the event would be the first of its kind.