REGIONAL: Tim Peake given freedom of city

ASTRONAUT Tim Peake is to be given the freedom of his home city.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Feb 2018, 06:23 BST
Updated 25th Feb 2018, 07:54 BST
Tim Peake spent six months in space, flying up in a Soyuz TMA-19M rocket (right) in December 2015. Pictures: NASATim Peake spent six months in space, flying up in a Soyuz TMA-19M rocket (right) in December 2015. Pictures: NASA
Tim Peake spent six months in space, flying up in a Soyuz TMA-19M rocket (right) in December 2015. Pictures: NASA

Chichester City Council will award the highest honour it can bestow on Major Peake at a ceremony today.

Mayor Peter Evans will present the title at the Chichester Festival Theatre before Maj Peake, 45, talks about the European Space Agency’s Principia Mission.

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Young people in the audience will have the chance to quiz the first British astronaut to carry out a spacewalk and meet him.

Major Peake was born in Chichester and attended the West Sussex city’s High School For Boys, which has named its science centre after him.

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