Ed Sheeran and Basil Brush to entertain at Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant

Aerial artist spectacle is planned alongside singers including Cliff Richard and Shirley Bassey

The fox puppet Basil Brush and singers Ed Sheeran and Sir Cliff Richard are among national treasures" to feature in the platinum jubilee People's Pageant carnival finale involving more than 10,000 people during the June bank holiday, organisers said.

Against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace on Sunday 5 June, highlights will include puppet corgis and a giant 3D bust of the Queen, with television audiences across the globe expected to run into hundreds of millions.