Mural for historic radio communications station

Artist Allan Levy wants to show off the importance of the radio station

A mural is to be created to celebrate a radio communications station in Warwickshire dating back to the 1920s.

The Rugby radio station was used for global communications in both peacetime and during the war.

It was used to broadcast time signals and linked the Royal Navy across the British Empire.

The site is now being redeveloped and the developers have brought in an artist to create a mosaic made up of thousands of photos from the local community.

The radio station opened in 1926 and by the 1950s it was the biggest such station with nearly sixty masts, but it closed in the early 2000s and a school now stands on part of the site.

The artist, Allan Levy, said his mural would show "what Rugby radio was really about in its heyday when it was transmitting to the rest of the world and we were at the cutting edge of technology".

Mr Levy is still searching for more photos from the local community and aims to have the mural complete in time for the radio station's 100th anniversary next year.