OKEHAMPTON Rotary Club has teamed up with the Museum of Dartmoor Life to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

The club agreed to design and fill a time capsule holding various items for a 50-year time span, until it is reopened in 2062.

Two Year 10 students from Okehampton College, Daniel McNamara and Cameron Bellamy, who were on work experience at the museum, helped to choose the location for the capsule within the museum.

The club has put a whole range of objects in the capsule to create a feeling of what life is like in 2012, including photographs of the area, books, parish magazines and pamphlets, restaurant menus, and even a copy of the Times.

The museum itself was the brainchild of former Okehampton Rotary president John Young, who along with a group of like-minded volunteers raised the necessary £8,000 to buy the museum buildings and further funds to set up the MDL.

The group then restored and refurbished the building so it could house the growing collection of local objects, and it opened for the first time in July 1981.

The capsule is now closed, with the objects inside not to be gazed upon for another 50 years.