A COUPLE from Leigh Sinton have covered their front garden with bunting today (Thursday) in celebration of the Queen's 90th birthday.

Anne and Ken Jones, who live along the A4103, put up the colourful decorations, which include two large models of Royal Guards, at 7am this morning.

The pair have marked special royal occasions in this way for decades, the last time being in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Mr Jones, 79, who is a former Grenadier Guard, said: "I have done it for many, many years for different occasions and being an ex-Grenadier Guardsman myself, I put myself out to do it.

"I'm a royalist and I have always been proud of England. She [the Queen] is a wonderful lady and I have been to Buckingham Palace garden parties five times with the regiment.

"I have met the Duke of Edinburgh three or four times - he is great, he is down to earth and a very nice chap."

Passing cars have been beeping their horns in acknowledgement of the display, which will be taken down later today.

Mr Jones is a committee member of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Grenadier Guards Association and is president of the Leigh and District Royal British Legion.

Remembering her favourite memory of the Queen, Mrs Jones, 75, said: "For me, it was the Coronation because I was 13 and to see something like that was heart stopping."

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