Queen celebrates Jubilee at church service

The Queen has celebrated her Golden Jubilee with 1,000 people at an inter-denominational church service in Belfast.

Crowds lined the street outside St Anne's Church of Ireland Cathedral as the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrived for the first engagement of the final day of their Jubilee Tour of Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland's leading politicians, First Minister David Trimble, Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan, Stormont ministers and Assembly members were among the specially invited congregation, many nominated by the four main churches.

The leaders of those churches in the North joined together to celebrate the Jubilee in the symbolic cross-community service.

The Church of Ireland's primate Archbishop Robin Eames, Catholic primate Archbishop Sean Brady and the Reverend Harold Good, president of the Methodist Church, all took a part in the service but it was left to the Presbyterian moderator Dr Alistair Dunlop to deliver the sermon.