Extra Bank Holiday for Jubilee approved in Guernsey

To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee people will be given an extra day off on 3 June.

It means people will have a four-day weekend as the late May holiday has been moved to Thursday, 2 June.

The States said the plans will give islanders a chance to celebrate the British’s monarch milestone and the island’s relationship with the Crown.

Events will be held to mark the Queen’s 70-year reign, which she will have reached on 6 February next year – becoming the first British Monarch to do so.

The move has aligned Guernsey with the UK holiday for the celebration.