TEIGNMOUTH is planning to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee in style this summer, but the public costs will be kept to a minimum.

Concerns that tax payers will have to pick up a large financial tab have been allayed as a town council events committee prepares a programme of celebrations on the Den.

Cllr Terry Falcao told a council meeting on Tuesday he had reservations about residents having to underwrite the costs.

'I fully support the celebrations, but do not want us to be writing out large cheques,' he said. And Cllr Vince Fusco added: 'We are all struggling, and have to control expenses.'

The chairman of the finance and general purposes committee, Cllr Sylvia Russell, explained that most of the events would cost them 'little or nothing'.

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