Summary

  • Updates on Monday 4 April 2016

  1. Premiership play-off schedule announcedpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 6 October 2020

    Wasps will host the first of two Premiership Rugby semi-finals on Saturday, 10 October.

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  2. HS2 road closure 'utter disaster' for firmspublished at 10:09 British Summer Time 6 October 2020

    A main road linking two Warwickshire towns may close for up to nine months for HS2 construction work.

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  3. Lockdown boosts demand for Austin Healey partspublished at 17:39 British Summer Time 5 October 2020

    BBC Radio CWR

    Demand for spare parts for Austin Healey sports cars has shot up during lockdown, according to a firm in Warwickshire.

    Austin Healey at AH Spares

    AH Spares, in Southam, has been running for nearly 50 years.

    Since March, the firm said sales had increased by nearly 40% and parts have been shipped across the world, particularly to the USA.

    "We believe it is because the customer is locked down in their garages so they are getting on with their restoration projects that they probably couldn't get on with before," Director Rebecca Kemsley said.

  4. Driver rescued from flood waterpublished at 09:41 British Summer Time 5 October 2020

    A driver has been rescued from flood water in Warwickshire.

    The fire service said , externalcrews from Wellesbourne and Stratford-upon-Avon were called out just before midday on Sunday.

    The vehicle in flood waterImage source, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service
  5. River levels remain high after heavy rainpublished at 09:21 British Summer Time 5 October 2020

    Allen Cook
    BBC News

    The rivers Leam and Avon will be closely monitored today after heavy rain at the weekend.

    Garden furniture under waterImage source, BBC Weather Watcher Soadave

    Three flood warnings remain in place , externalwith one on the Leam at Eathorpe, Huningham and Offchurch, near Leamington Spa, and two on the Avon at Wyre Piddle, near Evesham, and Strensham and Bredon.

    The Environment Agency has said it expected water levels to remain high through the day.

    There are also eight flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, dotted across the West Midlands.

    In Worcestershire, the county council has said , externalseveral roads and bridges remain closed while First Worcester said some bus services remain disrupted., external

  6. Coventry City of Culture lockdown art exhibitionpublished at 09:03 British Summer Time 5 October 2020

    Vanessa Pearce
    BBC News

    A Monopoly-style board game about homelessness and a theatre piece telling the stories of refugees form part of a new exhibition.

    ReintegrateImage source, Coventry Creates

    Coventry Creates was put together during lockdown by artists as part of the city's Year of Culture celebrations.

    The result is 18 pieces of digital art which can be seen on the Coventry Creates website from Monday.

    Coventry's year as City of Culture will run from May 2021 to May 2022.

  7. City of Culture lockdown art exhibition launchedpublished at 00:34 British Summer Time 5 October 2020

    Coventry Creates was put together during lockdown by artists as part of the city's Year of Culture.

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  8. Wasps thrash Exeter to book home semipublished at 16:50 British Summer Time 4 October 2020

    Wasps secure a home semi-final in the Premiership play-offs with a bonus-point win over a weakened Exeter.

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  9. Cherries top with win over 10-man Sky Bluespublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    AFC Bournemouth move top of the Championship after beating 10-man Coventry City in a feisty encounter.

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  10. Teenager guilty of right-wing terror offencespublished at 18:58 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    The boy told police he was "nine to 10" on a scale of right-wing terror, with Hitler being a 10.

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  11. Schools announce mergerpublished at 18:53 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    BBC Radio CWR

    Two fee-paying schools in Coventry have said they will merge to save money.

    Entrance to King Henry VIII School, CoventryImage source, Google

    The Coventry School Foundation, which runs both Bablake School and King Henry VIII School, said the move would "achieve efficiencies" and allow it to revamp the campuses.

    The plan will see the two private schools merge and both lose their historic names - instead they will be known as Coventry School, which will open in September 2021, with the merger completed by the following year.

    Bablake SchoolImage source, Google

    Officials at King Henry VIII School say it was in 1545 with an older date for Bablake of 1344.

    A petition has been set up opposing the merger claiming the move "only seemed to be motivated by the incentive of profit" and more than 950 people have signed it.

  12. Two students fined £200 over Covid breach partypublished at 18:15 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    Coventry University begins disciplinary proceedings against "a number of students".

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  13. Covid-19 infections 'appear to be 'plateauing'published at 16:48 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    The number of new cases of coronavirus in the West Midlands appears to be plateauing, according to health officials.

    A sign for a test facilityImage source, Reuters

    Clive Wright, from the Department of Health and Social Care, told a regional briefing today the overall rate of infection had come down but "we must not get complacent".

    He revealed the figures from Tuesday and then from Thursday for every 100,000 which show:

    • Birmingham - from 146.3 to 139.2
    • Coventry - from 66.3 to 71.2
    • Dudley - from 45.2 to 52.5
    • Sandwell - from 113.3 to 107.5
    • Solihull - from 75.8 to 79.6
    • Walsall - from 78.7 to 72.7
    • Wolverhampton - from 76.3 to 74.8

    The number of tests being carried out in the region has increased from 30,000 in the week up to 17 September to 42,000 in the last week.

    Further restrictions were introduced last month in Birmingham, Sandwell, Solihull and Wolverhampton banning households from mixing.

    Mr Wright said the chance of restrictions being eased in the near future was "unlikely" but they might happen it "we continue to go in the right direction".

  14. Woman's son and ex deny her murderpublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    Balvinder Gahir was found with serious head injuries at a property in Leamington Spa in August.

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  15. Your photos: A colourful full moonpublished at 08:12 British Summer Time 2 October 2020

    BBC Weather Watchers

    We had an impressive full moon last night and depending on where you were, it seems it appeared in a range of colours.

    To a BBC Weather Watcher in Telford it appeared to be bright orange, but in Coventry it was photographed in a more traditional white, while in Admaston it went for the beige look.

    Red moonImage source, Raj's Range
    White moonImage source, Noodles_93
    Brown moonImage source, Country Corf
  16. Mum fears lockdown could be behind son's deathpublished at 18:34 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    She advises parents to talk to children about how they feel as restrictions bite into normal life.

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  17. Defender Rose signs new Coventry dealpublished at 17:59 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Defender Michael Rose signs a new three-year contract with Championship club Coventry City.

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  18. Future of minor injuries unit to be reviewedpublished at 17:45 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    The future of Stratford-upon-Avon's minor injuries unit and the first aid centre at Shipston’s Ellen Badger Hospital is going to be reviewed.

    They were both closed in March, to allow staff to be transferred to Warwick, to help cope with the extra demand created by coronavirus.

    Stratford HospitalImage source, Google

    Both centres are set to remain closed through the winter and the review will determine what happens to them next.

    Under NHS England guidance, if they cannot become Urgent Treatment Centres, dealing with minor injuries which don't require a trip to an accident and emergency department, they will have to change, to provide other primary care services.