Tickets for the sold-out Diamond Jubilee Festival in Battersea Park are fetching hundreds of pounds online.

Bids for the tickets on online auction site eBay have rocketed ever since organisers announced the festival sold out last Thursday.

The festival guarantees a great view of the river pageant, as well as music from the Noisettes, Norman Jay and the Urban Soul Orchestra.

One ambitious seller is offering four tickets for £1,500 to anybody willing to snap up the tickets under the "buy it now" option.

A total of 29 bids have been cast for a set of five tickets, currently at £415, while a family pass for two adults and two children is going for more than £300.

Single tickets for the festival originally cost £5 from Ticketmaster.

One seller writes: "The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant celebrates Her Majesty's 60 years of service by magnificently bringing the Thames to life, making it joyously full with boats, resounding with clanging bells, tooting horns and sounding whistles, recalling both its royal heritage and its heyday as a working, bustling river."

Outraged Twitter user and Times Alpha Mummy blogger Jennifer Howze posted: "Battersea Park Jubilee celebration tickets that originally sold for £5 are going for £50 on eBay. God save the Queen indeed."

Wandsworth Council were given 10,000 free tickets, which were distributed to local schools, children and young people looked after by the council.

The Battersea Park event, curated by Hemingway Design and artist Clare Patey, will feature different zones dedicated to design, music, fashion, art, film and food from each of the six decades of the Queen's reign.

Last week Olympic torchbearers were accused of cashing in after selling torches on eBay for £150,00, with some giving proceeds to charity.

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