TWO very special bottles of beer have been on the shelf for 25 years -- since the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

And owner John Holt is finally cracking open the bottles of Whitbread Silver Jubilee Ale for the Golden jubilee this summer.

John, landlord at The Coaching House, in Glen View Road, Burnley, said: "They cost about 50p then but I have no idea what they are worth now."