AN epic series of ‘jubilee jaunts’ to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been completed by the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset Annie Maw.

The wheelchair-bound Lord Lieutenant commemorated the Queen’s reign by traversing 70 miles across Somerset, broken down into seven treks over the past two months.

Mrs Maw broke her back in a horse riding accident 20 years ago, resulting in paraplegia, and undertook her ‘jubilee jaunts’ in a motorised buggy.

Her final - and toughest - trek took in some of West Somerset’s most breathtaking sights, including the highest point on Exmoor, Dunkery Beacon.

She was accompanied by local Duke of Edinburgh students on each section of her journey.

Mrs Maw said: “It has been a wonderful experience to see so much of our county’s outstanding scenery during these excursions, but even better to meet so many inspiring young people who have joined me along the way.

“The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a once in a lifetime event, and I am delighted to have been able to help Somerset pay tribute to Her Majesty in this way.”

Completion of Mrs Maw’s series of jaunts rounded off Somerset’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations which saw dozens of dazzling street parties, the lighting of beacons across the county, and hundreds of new trees planted for the Queen’s Green Canopy.

An official film of how Somerset celebrated the jubilee has been put together by former BBC television news correspondent and now Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, Clinton Rogers.

It features material he gathered, plus contributions from members of the public in all corners of the county, and both BBC and ITV coverage.

A copy of the film will be held in the Somerset Records Office, in Taunton, for future generations to see how the Platinum Jubilee was marked in the county.