COMMUNITIES from two rural Bromsgrove villages are busy making plans for the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Clent parishioners will be celebrating the historic anniversary with an action-packed weekend of events.

Clent Parish Council has allocated £4,000 to enable residents to celebrate the Royal milestone in style.

A special jubilee committee, comprising representatives of village organisations, has been busy for more than a year planning an array of events to take place in the village from Friday, May 31 to Monday, June 3.

Celebrations will include a 50s night at the parish hall, in Church Avenue, on June 1. There will be a concert and a flower festival at St Leonard's Church on June 2.

And on June 3 a jubilee-themed float led by a jazz band will parade through the village, finishing at Clent First School. That afternoon there will be a village picnic and games.

And in the evening there will be a pig roast and disco - and a beacon will be lit on farmland in the village.

Also lined-up to mark the occasion is a best dressed house competition, and village children will be given a specially-made jubilee medal decorated with the Clent Parish Council crest of arms.

Belbroughton villagers had planned to stage a pram race and a pig roast to mark the occasion on Monday, June 3 but the events could be cancelled if there are not enough people to organise them.

The parish council wants to spruce up an area of land next to Holy Trinity Church Hall and turn it into a jubilee garden.