The longstanding tradition will no longer take place on Saturdays due to concerns over the possibility that jihadists could target the thousands of tourists who gather to enjoy the show.



Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace has also changed to fixed days in order to prevent an attack – with armed police accompanying the guards.

GETTY Armed police will accompany the soldiers during future ceremonies.

Two major truck attacks have shaken Europe over the past year.



In December, 12 people were murdered and 50 injured after a terrorist ploughed a truck through a busy Christmas market in Berlin at high speed.



And in July, 86 people were brutally killed and hundreds more hurt after a cowardly jihadi drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.

GETTY Security measures were also ramped up for New Year's celebrations following the Berlin attack.

Thames Valley Police ordered top military officials to alter the ceremonial timetable avoid the busiest times in the week in the wake of the Berlin attack.



Troops will now only perform the ceremony on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.



Security has also been ramped up, with armed police checkpoints and road closures.

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But the precautions have been blasted by local residents and traders over concerns they will lose money if the ceremonies are scrapped entirely.



Mother-of-two Polly Miller, 37, said: “Families won’t be able to go during the week because of school and work commitments.



“I think you are going to get a generation of disengaged British people, which is a shame.”