A FIRM date has been set for the installation of the new Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Admiral Lord Boyce.

It will take place at Dover Castle and in the grounds of Dover College on Tuesday, April 12. Admiral Lord Boyce succeeds the Queen Mother who died in 2002.

A former Naval commander, he retired last year and was made a Life Peer with the title Baron Boyce of Pimlico in the City of Westminster.