WORKERS across the country are set to get an extra long bank holiday weekend to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Street parties are being planned to mark Her Majesty's 70-year reign.

And millions of people will get to enjoy two bank holidays on Thursday, June 2 and Friday, June 3, meaning a four-day weekend.

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Celebrities including Ross Kemp, Alan Titchmarch, Lorraine Kelly are backing the Thank You Day, on Sunday June 5, to honour the Queen's service.

But the parties will also thank neighbours, family, friends, communities, the NHS and key workers for their support over the past year.

In a message released to mark her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen said: "As we mark this anniversary, it gives me pleasure to renew to you the pledge I gave in 1947 that my life will always be devoted to your service.

"As I look ahead with a sense of hope and optimism to the year of my Platinum Jubilee, I am reminded of how much we can be thankful for.

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"These last seven decades have seen extraordinary progress socially, technologically and culturally that have benefitted us all; and I am confident that the future will offer similar opportunities to us and especially to the younger generations in the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth."