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Gold apprentice scheme marks 50th year for Southam’s Laser Tools
A Southam-based specialist automotive tooling business has celebrated its 50th anniversary by launching a scheme to support up-and-coming mechanics.
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Meet the Midnight Baker who’s delivering bread to south Warwickshire
From his home in Ettington where he has lived with his wife for seven years, Chris has been baking bread for others in the village for several years
Have you seen missing Daisy?
Warwickshire Police are appealing for information to help locate 14-year-old Daisy who has gone missing from Leamington
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‘Our hands are tied’ says garages as fuel prices increase
As motorists see fuel costs increasing at the pump and accusations of profiteering circulate, one garage has told drivers: ‘It’s out of our hands’.
Brain tumour appeal hits £1,177
A total of £1,247 has so far been raised for a charity in support of a Stratford man diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour
What’s on this Easter - family things to do in south Warwickshire
There’s plenty of chocolate egg-themed activities as well as a Lego event and the chance to try out some disc golf.
Ilmington pub named the best as trio of businesses win gold at tourism awards
There was gold for Go Cotswolds, the Howard Arms in Ilmington and Compton Verney at the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2026.
‘This group has changed me as a person’
On 12th March 2025, organisers of the Stratford Men Walking and Talking group were nervously waiting to see who would turn up to their first meeting
‘The village and the whole community have really got behind the project’
Organisers behind a campaign to build a new pavilion at Welford’s Synder Meadow Playing Fields say they have ambitions to develop the site further
Shipston Age Concern celebrates 50 years of helping older folk
More than 350 people gathered at the Ellen Badger community hub to mark 50 years of Age Concern Shipston.
Playing about for Shakespeare Week
It wasn’t just RSC actors who got to don crowns and strut their stuff this week
Nuneaton rapist jailed for 15 years
A man who raped a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton last year has been jailed for 15 years
County council accused of ‘hostile takeover’ as it pushes case for single Warwickshire authority
Warwickshire County Council has restated its case for a single county-wide unitary authority to replace the area’s six biggest councils from 2028.
Woman, 23, arrested following fatal collision on Warwick Road, Stratford
A Stratford woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving following a fatal collision on Warwick Road.
23-year-old woman in careless driving arrest after man dies in Warwickshire
Police are investigating and have asking for the public's help
‘It’s sad to lose the ability to host people and create experiences’
A small hospitality venue has had to shut part of its operation because of months of uncertainty over business rates and rising costs
Man dies in Warwickshire crash tragedy
Emergency services fought to save his life but he died at the scene
Man dies after being hit by car on Warwick Road
A man has died after being hit by a car in Stratford last night (Thursday)
18 years for killer who buried mum-of-two in shallow grave in Binley Woods
A killer who attacked a woman in his home, put her body in a suitcase and buried her in the woods has been jailed for 18 years.
Play area at the Rec opens today… but some families have already forced their way in to use it
Parents ignored the warning signs and the large, metal security fences around the play area at Stratford Rec at the weekend.