Downing Street staff have been putting the finishing touches to a Coronation lunch being thrown for "community heroes" who received the Points of Light Award, Ukrainian families who fled Russia's war and youth groups on Sunday.

The event is taking place as part of The Big Lunch, a nationwide initiative to bring neighbours and communities together to celebrate the Coronation, with more than 50,000 such events due to take place.

The Downing Street party is being hosted by the Prime Minister and his wife, with bunting hung up and crockery donated by Emma Bridgewater, a ceramics company based in Stroke-on-Trent, including a King Charles III teapot.

The Downing Street party is being hosted by the Prime Minister and his wife, with bunting hung up and crockery donated by Emma Bridgewater, a ceramics company based in Stroke-on-Trent, including a King Charles III teapot.

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