The route of the Queen's Baton Relay has been revealed - and Leek residents are in luck as it is passing through our town!

The relay will be travelling all over England over the course of 29 days, before finally reaching the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on July 28th.

The relay will begin on 2nd June and will be in London for the Platinum Jubilee weekend, and will then tour Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales before returning to England for a 25 day tour of the country on 4th July.

And that tour will include a pass through Leek - the relay is due to pass through our town on Tuesday, 19th July, just as it is about to enter the last week of its journey to Birmingham.

See below for the full list of dates and locations that the baton is due to visit in the West Midlands:

Monday 18 July - Liverpool, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, and Shrewsbury

Tuesday 19 July - Ironbridge, Telford, Newport, Lilleshall, Stafford, Stone, Rudyard, and Leek

Wednesday 20 July - Uttoxeter, Burton upon Trent, Lichfield, Burntwood, Chasewater, and Tamworth

Thursday 21 July - Bodymoor Heath, Atherstone, Market Bosworth, Nuneaton, Bedworth, Rugby, and Coventry

Friday 22 July - Kenilworth, Whitnash, Warwick, Gaydon, Stratford-upon-Avon, Broadway, Pershore, Upton-upon-Severn, Malvern, and Worcester

Saturday 23 July - Redditch, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Codsall, Rugeley, Hednesford, Cannock, and Walsall

Sunday 24 July - Wolverhampton, Halesowen, Stourbridge, Dudley, Brierley Hill

Monday 25 July - Oldbury, Wednesbury, Tipton, Cradley Heath, Rowley Regis, Blackheath, Bearwood, Smethwick, and West Bromwich

Tuesday 26 July - Castle Bromwich, Fordbridge, Chelmsley Wood, Marston Green, Hampton in Arden, Meriden, Berkswell, Balsall Common, Knowle, Dorridge, Cheswick Green, Hockley Heath, Dickens Heath, Shirley, and Solihull

Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 July - Birmingham