but domestic abuse campaigners worry about the message it sends. and here at the home of cricket, the start of the test match summer, new captain, new coach, new england? so far, very good. good afternoon. the queen has taken the salute from the balcony at buckingham palace as trooping the colour begins four days of celebration for her platinum jubilee. there are thousands of people here lining the streets, and we ve spoken to some who ve come from as far away as australia and the us. in a message to mark the event, the queen, who is the world s oldest reigning monarch, said she hoped the celebrations would create many happy memories for people. at 96, her mobility is limited, and she restricted her appearance to the palace balcony, instead of inspecting the troops in person, as is traditional. here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. for all that she wants thejubilee to be about communities coming together, creating their own precious memories, in the end, it is a
for s but he was still clapping. it was really, really amazing atmosphere down there and we also saw prince charles and camilla afterwards. they did a bit of a walkabout much to the visualise of the crowds who were there and went and spoke to them and i think that was a nice touch for thousands of people who came out today to see what s going on. i people who came out today to see what s going on- people who came out today to see what s going on. i wonder how many eole what s going on. i wonder how many eo - ie the what s going on. i wonder how many people the police what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think they - what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think they were i people the police think they were out because we know green park on the other side, people turned up i guess quite natural to think i will have a lovely walk through green park and see what is going on. they litera
from buckingham palace, where thejubilee celebrations are continuing in to the evening here in london. the illustrator sir quentin blake, broadcaster clare balding and actor damian lewis are among more than 1,000 people recognised in the queen s birthday honours list. in other news, johnny depp s seen in a newcastle pub last night while in the us his legal team celebrated his defamation win but domestic abuse campaigners worry about the message it sends. 70 aircraft have flown over buckingham palace to celebrate the queen s platinum jubilee. the fly past began with several royal navy helicopters followed by modern and historic planes including a spitfire, hurricane, lancaster and voyager. a special formation of 15 typhoons then formed the number 70 in honour of the queen s reign. but in the past hour buckingham palace has announced that prince andrew the duke of york has tested positive for covid and will no longer attend tomorrow s service of thanksgiving. let s
louis down there. you can see crowds lining the mall, as you can see, plenty more pictures from today s celebrations of the platinum jubilee and more to come, plenty more on the lighting of the beacons, which should be quite a spectacular thing to see was to plenty more of that to come. but first, i think we should go and get the sports round up, as we need, from isaac here. have you got sports for us? ido i do indeed. it s been a fantastic start for england in the first test against new zealand at lords. they ve bowled new zealand out for 132 runs. a day illuminated by excellent fielding, ben stokes took the final wicket in his opening innings as england captain. matthew potts had a debut to remember. he took four wickets in his first test match. james anderson got four wickets, too, making a statement in his return to the squad after being omitted from the west indies tour alongside stuart broad, who got the other wicket. england currently 80 2. zak za k crawley zak crawley
george, charlotte and louis made their debut appearance in a royal carriage at the trooping the colour parade. and in other news tonight: england get off to a storming start on the first day of the first test against new zealand at lords. good evening from buckingham palace, where the queen has been cheered on by huge crowds as the first of four days of the platinum jubilee celebrations got under way. it began with the trooping of colour parade and was followed by a spectacular flypast marking her unprecedented 70 year reign. in a message to mark the event, the queen said she hoped the celebrations would create many happy memories for people . at 96, her mobility is limited and she restricted her appearance to the palace balcony instead of inspecting the troops in person as is traditional. here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. for all that she wants thejubilee to be about communities coming together and creating their own precious memories, in the end, it is all