The chairman of Newark and Sherwood District Council, Coun Sue Saddington, has offered her condolences to the royal family after the death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced today.

Coun Saddington said: “It is with the greatest sadness that we learnt of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Her majesty’s death is an enormous loss to the nation having spent an entire lifetime of devoted service and duty to the United Kingdom. The majority of us will have never known a time without our Queen.

“On behalf of Newark and Sherwood District Council and our residents, may I offer our sincere condolences and convey our deepest sympathies to the entire royal family.”