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Golden smiles and tickets for World Book Day
“Super happy!” is how six-year-old Leonardo Standford gleefully described himself after winning golden ticket during World Book Day
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Mission accomplished for Warwickshire Reform as its new plan cuts back on ‘net zero and all that jazz’
WCC leader George Finch says people in the county don’t want “the luxury of cycle lanes and all this green happiness”.
Health screening events taking place across Stratford district
Stratford District Council's first health screening event of 2026 takes place on Saturday March 21, coinciding with National Screening Day during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
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Shipston pub leads the fundraising to give young carers a much-deserved break
A group of young carers in Shipston are set to get a much-deserved break thanks to a fundraising campaign led by a pub in the town.
Get your fire souvenirs...
The industrious people of Stratford made keepsakes from the timber left over after the 1926 theatre fire
Matilda The Musical: Moving, magical and still a must-see
After 15 years on the West End stage, this wickedly good story of a schoolgirl genius is still getting top marks
Potholes tripled on Warwickshire's roads this winter
Prolonged wet weather has seen 4,962 pothole fix requests submitted to Warwickshire County Council across the first two months of this year.
After the theatre fire: onwards and upwards
After the shock of the fire, not many mourned the ‘ogre’s castle’ and steps swiftly began to build a New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford
FIRE TIMELINE: ‘Within half an hour, the building was fully ablaze’
Shakespeare Institute academic Elisabeth Hayward takes a fascinating look at how the fire that burned down Stratford’s theatre in 1926 unfolded
Theatre’s own fire drama 100 years ago
100 years ago today, on 6th March 1926, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was destroyed in a fire - the Herald archives tell the story
Lizard refugee from Italy looking for warm home
Italian wall lizard Goliath surprised Newbold family when he sprang out of tree ordered from Stratford Garden Centre
Young people encouraged to get trading at Stratford market
Rother Street Market is offering up to four free stalls on Saturday April 18 as part of the nationwide Young Traders Market competition.
Failed asylum seeker families offered £40,000 to leave UK under new Home Office pilot - NATIONAL NEWS
Families whose asylum claims have been rejected could be offered payments of up to £40,000 to leave the UK under a new government pilot scheme.
Help spread the floral pride in the town
Help Stratford in Bloom by putting sponsoring name plaque on hanging basket - plus volunteers wanted
Warwickshire could create new combined authority with neighbouring counties
Warwickshire councils have been asked to enter negotiations with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire over potentially forming a mayoral authority.
New climate adaptation scheme launched in Stratford district
Local community groups, charities, businesses and parish and town council's are invited to apply to bolster their resistance to climate change.
Tat’s entertainment - the Stratford actor who marks his shows with a tattoo
Audiences are used to seeing Richard ‘Dickie’ Sandle-Keynes on stage but they may not know that his theatre career lives permanently on his arm.
Police on look out for missing 15-year-old boy with links to Stratford
A boy who went missing in Merseyside yesterday has links to Stratford
ROWING - Stratford Boat Club masters triumph at Avon Spring Head
In the masters' C mixed quad race, the team of Rebecca England, Pete Spivey, Lucy Scarlett and Thomas Doherty went toe-to-toe with Gloucester in blustery conditions.
Warwick youngster's first haircut raises over £2,000 for The Little Princess Trust
Heidi Webster, who’s never had her hair cut before, has been fundraising for The Little Princess Trust during February.