North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry is urging his constituents to take part in a poetry competition he has organised to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): Next year also provides an opportunity for a grand national festival and celebration because of the Queen’s diamond jubilee. May I tell my hon. Friend that in Banbury and Bicester we are already planning for that event, and in Banbury we intend to hold the largest street party in the country?

Banbury is taking its first steps in its bid to host the country’s biggest street party celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

To find out what Bicester is going to do to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee visit: http://www.bicesterjubilee.co.uk/.

Plans for Bicester to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in style have taken a step forward.

Plans for Bicester to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in style have taken a step forward.

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper), recently made a written statement about the award of jubilee city status in 2012. That continues a practice of creating new cities that was seen at the times of the Queen’s silver and golden jubilees and the millennium celebrations.

North Oxfordshire MP, Tony Baldry, has sent a letter to Constitutional Affairs Minister Mark Harper, and Local Government Minister Grant Shapps in support of bid for Banbury in The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year to be declared a Jubilee Borough.