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This is Jersey >Out and About> Daily Diary : Friday 9 May 2008

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Friday 9 May 2008

LIBERATION EVENTS

07.15 am: War Tunnels Champagne Breakfast

09.45 am: Caledonian Pipe Band in Royal Square and La Ronde Concert Band in Liberation Square

10.15 am: Scouts and Guides parade from Bath Street to Liberation Square

10.25 am: Band of the Island of Jersey march from Bath Street to Royal Square

10.30 am: Liberation States Sitting

10.45 am: Caledonian Pipe Band lead march to Liberation Square

11 am: Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving by the Dean. Hymns, address by Bailiff, Liberation Day re-enactment, singing of National Anthem and winning Jersey Anthem, followed by Beautiful Jersey' sung by Sadie Rennard

Celebrations in the People's Park from noon to 5.30 pm with Living History re-enactments; 1940s comic street theatre; magic shows; balloon making; a Big Band; drop-in Lindy Hop dance workshops and a Liberation Wall installation

3 pm Slave Workers memorial ceremony at Crematorium - a Belgium plaque funded by family of Belgian slaveworker Emile Boydens; and the President of Madeira will lay a wreath on behalf of Madeira

EXHIBITIONS

Art Exhibition 2 into 1. Paul Kilshaw & Graham Tovey.

THEATRE/SHOWS/MUSIC

Opera House: Buddy Holly and the Cricketers at 8 pm

PUBS, CLUBS AND HOTELS

Blue Note: Electric Blues Band

Club72: DJ Tony

Dolphin: Run For Cover

Legends: Jono

Ommaroo Hotel: Gary Parkin and Sue Sue Monet

The Drift: DJ Bird

THINGS TO DO

Jersey Rotary Club walk from West Park to St Aubin and back, raising money for Jersey Lifeboat Appeal at 11 am.

Liberation Day Steam Fayre at the Pallot Steam, Motor and General Museum. From 10 am until 5 pm.

Liberation Day Service at Philadelphie Methodist Church, St Peter: 10.30 am.

Further details of these events can be found in the Jersey Evening Post, the Island's leading media, for news, information and advertising, available from 1.15pm on Mon-Fri and 9am on Saturday.

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