A West Midlands priest who served as chaplain to the Queen for 13 years has said Her Majesty will leave a huge legacy.

Britain became a sea of red, white and blue – and purple – during a four-day festival celebrating the Queen’s unprecedented Platinum Jubilee in June this year.

As this modern, fast, so often unfamiliar age engulfed us, as politicians and celebrities have come and gone, Queen Elizabeth II seemed to have survived them all, guarding with determined pride the Monarchy.

Into every life a little rain will fall. But as with most of us, there were times when Elizabeth II felt surrounded by hurricanes, battered by storms, half drowned by torrents.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a driver was attacked in a Walsall street.

From her cousin's ancestral home to a revamped football stadium, the Queen made several visits to the West Midlands during the 1980s and 1990s.

Princess Anne, second child, only daughter, may have been very like her mother when it came to a love of horses. But unlike her mother, when Anne’s serious courting began, she dodged the media by being smuggled around in horse boxes and laying a ...

If her own entry into public life as Monarch in Waiting had been unplanned, the roles of the Queen’s own children were defined very early on.

Others have been given the credit, but it was Queen Elizabeth II who actually invented the walkabout. In New Zealand in 1970, she decided she would meet more people first hand if she left her car and strolled rather than rode.

The new Elizabethan age swept in on a tide of goodwill. But as with great and colourful moments in what might at the time be a dismal world – just years after the end of a long war, Britain was still weary – expectations can be unrealistic.

As Elizabeth grew up, and especially once the family moved into Buckingham Palace, her devotion and admiration for the father she loved so dearly was deep and undisguised.

It was back in 1934, when Elizabeth at the age of eight was a pretty bridesmaid for the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina, that romantic old fate first stepped in.

As it turned out, 1936 was to become the year of three kings. George V died at its beginning, the uncrowned Edward VIII abdicated before its end and an unprepared George VI spent that cold Christmas contemplating his new life as Monarch.

It is often the more humble onlooker who brings together the great threads of history and notes the most personal shock, devastation, joy or despair. This was one such defining moment.

The arrival of a little sister when you are only four and anxious for instant playmates is exciting at any time. In the early world of the young Elizabeth, waiting for the new baby was the most wonderful anticipation and brought with it great childho...

The Princess Elizabeth did most of her childhood growing between two world wars. Born eight years after the first one ended, she was 13 when the second began. A war which was to last for six long and painful years.

On April 21, 1926, the Duchess of York safely delivered a little newcomer to the nation. A longed-for first child to a proud and happy duke and duchess, a new princess for the royal line.

It was warm summer’s morning, and the mechanics at a Rolls-Royce dealer in the West Midlands took a brief break to watch the Queen's cavalcade drive past.

Flooring group Victoria said it is trading in line with expectations, with revenue, earnings and cash flow all in line with market forecasts.

The West Midlands was one of the first ports of call for the new Queen shortly after her accession to the throne in 1952.

Motorists are facing four-mile delays after a crash on the M6 motorway heading southbound.

Flags are flying at half-mast across the Black Country today, as the dawn breaks on the first day of a new era.

The nation is in mourning and Queen's Elizabeth's death has left a lot of people feeling uncertain, not least because she was central to UK life for so long.

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the Queen had been an ‘inspirational figure’.

It is 60 years since the Queen visited Molineux as part of a whistle-stop tour of the Midlands.

Doctors will be able to diagnose Walsall patients through better quality x-ray images thanks to upgraded equipment installed at the Manor Hospital.

An MP has called for urgent intervention to resurrect plans for a new police station in Stourbridge.

News of an emergency package to help shield residents and businesses from soaring energy prices has been met with a mixed reaction by food banks in the region.

People who shared in carrying the Queen's Baton before the Commonwealth Games are to be gifted a special souvenir.

A housing developer has funded the creation of a leafy addition to a walkway at the nation's centre for remembrance.

Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands, Dr Satya Sharma, said the Queen had a remarkable talent for making people feel at ease in her presence.

There was scepticism among shoppers on a Black Country high street at the new energy plans laid out by the Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Public transport users will be offered "guaranteed lowest fares" under a new £18million 'tap and go' scheme.

Hundreds of striking postal workers turned out to greet a union boss on picket lines outside Royal Mail depots across the Black Country in the latest walkout over pay and conditions.

A new Starbucks store is set to open up in a unit at a Staffordshire shopping centre.

The Palace issued the update on Thursday saying royal doctors are concerned for her health.

Police are growing increasingly concerned over a missing 15-year-old girl.

Puppy walkers, fosterers and volunteers who have all dedicated their time to helping transform canines into police dogs in the West Midlands were thanked at a special event.

A social work team from Staffordshire has been shortlisted for a prestigious award.

A bogus window cleaner who stole a disabled pensioner's purse from her home has been jailed after police traced him from saliva left on a teacup.

Stourbridge Glass Museum is appealing to glass artists across the UK to donate any unwanted or unloved old pieces as part of an initiative to raise funds for the visitor attraction.

The leader of the UK’s biggest nursing union visited the Black Country to urge its members at the area’s NHS hospitals to vote for strike action in a forthcoming ballot over pay and nationwide nurse shortages.

The most expensive streets in the Black Country and Staffordshire have been revealed.

The family of an elderly man who died after he was hit by a car in Rowley Regis on Saturday are appealing for witnesses to contact the police.

A knife with a 14cm blade has been seized from a stolen car in Halesowen after police saw the driver crash and flee.

A cyclist was taken to hospital after a crash in Wolverhampton.

Police in Staffordshire have moved to reassure the public of their progress in tackling violence against women and girls after the death of Sarah Everard.

A fundraising event including a 13-hour pool marathon will take place next month in memory of a much-loved woman from Wolverhampton who died earlier this year.

More schools in Wolverhampton are being encouraged to open second-hand uniform shops to help cash-strapped parents struggling to buy the required clothes for their children.

A clampdown on substandard HMOs will come into effect with housing bosses declaring ‘enough is enough’.

A couple has been left feeling blue after they were told to remove the bright colour from their front path.

Prime Minister Liz Truss set out her first major policy intervention to address the soaring bills facing families and firms.

Four people have been arrested following disorder at a Black Country soup kitchen where volunteers were handing out free food to the public.

A leading PVC-U roofing products manufacturer and distributor has contacted current and former employees, including some in the West Midlands, to inform them that a cyber attack on the company has led to a substantial data breach.

Council chiefs have drawn up plans to fix a "dangerous" leak that has caused havoc on a Dudley road for quarter of a century.

Hearings at Crown Courts across the region are being adjourned as barristers industrial actions hit the justice system.

Fines totalling more than £6,000 have already been handed out to fly-tippers in Dudley who have been caught red-handed on a new CCTV system.

A typical UK household will now pay ‘no more than’ £2,500 a year for their energy for the next two years from October 1.

The Home Office has released quarterly figures on terrorism-related arrests in the UK, and stops and searches by the Metropolitan Police.

An investment of more than £350,000 to make Wolverhampton city centre a safer place for women has been welcomed by council bosses.

The latest setback causes fresh fears for her health after she had to pull out of key events due to ongoing mobility issues in recent months.

Council tax debts and housing benefit overpayments totalling more than £110,000 are to be written off in Cannock Chase.

Stone’s former Lotus shoe factory could make way for a new 130-homes development.

Furious council bosses say they’ve been “bullied and blackmailed” into accepting a tax on some future Walsall housing developments to protect an out-of-town beauty spot.

A borough councillor has likened a boundary fence to the Berlin Wall, in a row over planning permission and flooding.

West Midlands Police have put out an appeal wanting to speak to a person about a burglary in which keys and two handbags were stolen.

People will be able to have their say on plans to build a health facility and new homes in Wolverhampton.

The next steps towards a permanent memorial to Caribbean servicemen and women have been taken at the nation's place of remembrance.

Former West Brom boss Sam Allardyce has revealed all about the hurt of losing the England job and revealed he could still return to management.

Residents whose homes at risk of flooding are calling for work to be carried out to repair old drains near the properties.

The Severn Valley Railway is celebrating the completion of a major £475,000 project which has seen its locomotive shed at its headquarters in Bridgnorth receive a major refurbishment.

A man has been given a 12-month suspended sentence after he sexually assaulted and harassed multiple women.

A video has been shared of the moment police smashed through the door of a property they suspected was being used to grow cannabis.

A number of motorbikes, motorcycle tools and bicycles worth £18,000 have been stolen from a property in Cannock.

Nearly half a million pounds has been secured to support homelessness prevention work across Dudley over the next three years.

A 25ft inflatable of Birmingham's own Ozzy Osbourne will tower over fans at a launch party in the city for his new album this weekend.

Residents in Dudley and South Staffordshire are currently without water supply or are experiencing low pressure.

Merry Hill shoppers are celebrating the long-awaited return of its popular Halloween megastore.

Wolverhampton Council is set to triple its budget for consultants on regeneration projects to £1 million over the next year.

Keep on running... Edward Molyneaux has set himself a marathon target as he seeks to win a place in the Guinness Book of Records – or, at least, half of one.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street will presenting two cheques for a total of £10,000 during a visit to Walsall’s Leather Skills Centre tomorrow.

Calls have been made for a permanent tribute to a "very strong and independent" long-serving councillor in Wolverhampton who died earlier this year.

Musicians from Poland, France, England, Scotland and Wales will be heading to Birmingham International Tattoo this weekend.

An MP has called on council chiefs to "start listening" and re-instate a meeting to scrutinise the Black Country Plan originally set to be held later this month.

Cumberland ale will now be brewed in Staffordshire with the closure of a brewery in the Lake District.

Free training footballs are being given away at a Great Barr pub on Saturday.

Lickey Hills, Woodgate Valley Country Park and Sutton Park may start charging all visitors to park their cars there, it has been revealed.

Police remain at the scene of an ongoing incident at a property in Tamworth.

Armed police have responded to reports of "a man with a crossbow" in a siege in Tamworth.

Independent hospitals group Spire Healthcare has seen revenue exceed pre-pandemic levels in the first six months of this year.

Self storage group Safestore saw revenue rise by 14.9 per cent to £54.7 million in the third quarter of its financial year to the end of July.

A much loved former pub and Chinese restaurant in Great Barr which has fallen into poor condition is to be torn down.

Royal Mail workers will be launching a fresh strike today and Friday in a dispute over pay, which threatens disruption to deliveries.

West Midlands Police said a teenager has been seriously injured after being attacked with a machete.

Bridgnorth Town Councillors have assured people in the town Christmas will go ahead this year after announcing details of their lights switch on event.

Fire crews urge people to avoid an area as they deal with a blaze at a commercial premises.

Volunteers from the National Citizen Service came together last month to renovate the toddler area at Cannock Park.

Work has started on removing asbestos from a school in Wolverhampton after it was discovered whilst light fittings were being replaced.

Weather and signalling issues are causing havoc on train lines across the Black Country.

A cake shop where mouse activity was found has been fined thousands of pounds.