The 550-mile Festival of Suffolk torch relay to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee will pass through Waveney later this month.

Celebrating all the county has to offer, the Festival of Suffolk will bring the torch to 250 towns and villages.

Hundreds turned out to launch the relay on Friday May 13, in Brandon.

The torch will arrive in Waveney on Thursday, May 26, reaching Bungay at 4pm at the junction of St. Margaret's Road and Flixton Road.

Martha Coleman and Lucy Walker will ride the rickshaw through the town before handing the torch over at the junction of Trinity Street and Staithe Road.

Beginning the day in Heckfield Green, the torch will pass through Stradbroke, Barley Green, Laxfield and Fressingfield before arriving in Metfield.

From there, it will travel to Bungay via St James South Elmham, All Saints South Elmham and St Michael South Elmham.

After Bungay, it will visit Mettingham, Shipmeadow and Barsham.

The relay reaches Beccles on Thursday afternoon and will travel along Puddingmoor and up Saltgate and The Walk to the Town Hall, where it will be met by town mayor Barry Darch. District and county councillor Caroline Topping will be the torch holder for this leg.

On Friday, May 27, the torch will leave Beccles at 9am from Exchange Square.

The torch will then visit Worlingham, before heading to the coast with stops at Barnby, Carlton Colville, Oulton Broad, Blundeston and Corton.

On Friday afternoon, the torch will arrive at Ness Park in Lowestoft at about 2.15pm, carried by the town's mayor Alan Green.

On Saturday, May 28, the torch will leave Lowestoft from Ness Point at 9am, before heading to Kessingland, Wrentham, Reydon, Southwold and Wenhaston.

On Sunday, May 29 it will set off from Halesworth before heading south, ultimately arriving back in Ipswich on June 1 for the Suffolk Show.