A 27-year-old man who bared all during a Royal visit to Newcastle was yesterday ordered to keep his distance from the Queen.

Brynn Richard Reed, who works in the pensions department of the DSS on Tyneside, appeared before North Tyneside Magistrates charged with outraging public decency following his streak in front of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.

Magistrates were told that the offence will have to be heard at Newcastle Crown Court.

Neil Pallister, prosecuting, asked the court for a two-week adjournment and for Reed, of Stormont Street, North Shields, to be released on bail on condition he did not go within 200 yards of the Queen