Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) back issues from April 2009:
JODIE NEED; Home alone tragedy: City authorities rapped.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Les Reid A DAMNING report into the death of a vulnerable Coventry child known to be at risk has slammed the child protection authorities' failings. A Serious Case Review into the death of 23-month-old Jodie Ann Brown who died home alone in a fire concludes ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A PAEDOPHILE who sexually abused children as young as four over 40 years, is finally behind bars. Brian Hughes, aged 64, of Rugby, was given a 22-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 28 charges of child ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL?
Apr 01, 2009 ... HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? WEDNESDAY, APRIL ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MEMORABLE lessons involving exploding vinegar, extra help for those who need it and good teachers have ensured Milby Primary School has some of the best tests results in Nuneaton. The school in Milby Avenue is second in Nuneaton in this year's primary school performance tables. ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Lucy Lynch ERNESFORD GRANGE Primary School is top of the Coventry primary school performance tables this year. The tables are out today giving a snap shot of how 11-year-old pupils performed in key stage two English, maths and science tests last summer when ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top.
Apr 01, 2009 ... VILLAGE schools are among the top performers in the Rugby, Warwick and Leamington areas. There are five schools in the county where all pupils in their final year reached at least level four in English, maths and science tests, giving a combined score of 300. And every one is in ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize; ICE HOCKEY By Antony.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Antony Hopker J F PERRAS is heading to Nottingham this weekend determined to help Cassidy Coventry Blaze to a trophy. Blaze face the home city in the play-off semi-finals on Saturday before a possible final against either Sheffield or Cardiff the following ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize Poplar hopes hit by Canley; FOOTBALL: Spotlight on the Sunday soccer scene: COVENTRY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... CANLEY SPORTS ripped up the form book to tame championship contenders Poplar Athletic 1-0 at Marler Road Poplar went into the match unbeaten in the league and fresh from their coup against title rivals Jaguar - but Darryl Smith snapped up the all-important goal to earn Canley only their ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize Poplar hopes hit by Canley Gladbach closing in on Senior One title; COV & CENTRAL WARKS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... CV MONCHEN Gladbach closed in on the Senior One title when they crushed leaders Coventry Saracens 5-1 - slashing the gap to six points with three matches in hand. David Fisher's hat-trick did the damage with Neil Lissaman and substitute Jim Mitchell also on target. ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize Poplar hopes hit by Canley Gladbach closing in on Senior One title RICKY'S READY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... X Wells given go-ahead ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize Poplar hopes hit by Canley Gladbach closing in on Senior One title RICKY'S READY Clayton's long ban shocks Maynard; Davis fills the gap for Cov.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: John Wilkinson COVENTRY are planning an appeal against the eightweek suspension handed out to flanker Darren Clayton by an RFU disciplinary panel - a verdict which came as a shock to the club's rugby director, Phil Maynard. Clayton, who was cited by Sedgley ...
JODIE NEED CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? Milby pupils in a learning explosion Creative ways to high score Village life helps youngsters come out on top Perras has sights on top prize Poplar hopes hit by Canley Gladbach closing in on Senior One title RICKY'S READY Clayton's long ban shocks Maynard Nothing to separate promotion chasers.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE race for second place in the BGB Southern Midland Division is still neck and neck after Nuneaton and Atherstone fought out a thrilling 2-2 draw at Liberty Way last night. Both sides were ahead at some stage in a game that attracted a 1,820 crowd and saw Nuneaton equalise ...
CHILD ABUSE BEAST GETS 22 YEARS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A PAEDOPHILE who sexually abused children as young as four over 40 years, is finally behind bars. Brian Hughes, aged 64, of Rugby, was given a 22-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 28 charges of child ...
HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL?
Apr 01, 2009 ... HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL? WEDNESDAY, APRIL ...
Milby pupils in a learning explosion.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MEMORABLE lessons involving exploding vinegar, extra help for those who need it and good teachers have ensured Milby Primary School has some of the best tests results in Nuneaton. The school in Milby Avenue is second in Nuneaton in this year's primary school performance tables. ...
Creative ways to high score.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Lucy Lynch ERNESFORD GRANGE Primary School is top of the Coventry primary school performance tables this year. The tables are out today giving a snap shot of how 11-year-old pupils performed in key stage two English, maths and science tests last summer when ...
Village life helps youngsters come out on top.
Apr 01, 2009 ... VILLAGE schools are among the top performers in the Rugby, Warwick and Leamington areas. There are five schools in the county where all pupils in their final year reached at least level four in English, maths and science tests, giving a combined score of 300. And every one is in ...
Perras has sights on top prize; ICE HOCKEY By Antony.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Antony Hopker J F PERRAS is heading to Nottingham this weekend determined to help Cassidy Coventry Blaze to a trophy. Blaze face the home city in the play-off semi-finals on Saturday before a possible final against either Sheffield or Cardiff the following ...
Poplar hopes hit by Canley; FOOTBALL: Spotlight on the Sunday soccer scene: COVENTRY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... CANLEY SPORTS ripped up the form book to tame championship contenders Poplar Athletic 1-0 at Marler Road Poplar went into the match unbeaten in the league and fresh from their coup against title rivals Jaguar - but Darryl Smith snapped up the all-important goal to earn Canley only their ...
Gladbach closing in on Senior One title; COV & CENTRAL WARKS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... CV MONCHEN Gladbach closed in on the Senior One title when they crushed leaders Coventry Saracens 5-1 - slashing the gap to six points with three matches in hand. David Fisher's hat-trick did the damage with Neil Lissaman and substitute Jim Mitchell also on target. ...
RICKY'S READY.
Apr 01, 2009 ... X Wells given go-ahead ...
Clayton's long ban shocks Maynard; Davis fills the gap for Cov.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: John Wilkinson COVENTRY are planning an appeal against the eightweek suspension handed out to flanker Darren Clayton by an RFU disciplinary panel - a verdict which came as a shock to the club's rugby director, Phil Maynard. Clayton, who was cited by Sedgley ...
Nothing to separate promotion chasers.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE race for second place in the BGB Southern Midland Division is still neck and neck after Nuneaton and Atherstone fought out a thrilling 2-2 draw at Liberty Way last night. Both sides were ahead at some stage in a game that attracted a 1,820 crowd and saw Nuneaton equalise ...
I want to make it a Dan deal; Fox eager to commit future to Sky Blues: Fox: I've got a big decision to make.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Andy Turner DANNY FOX has revealed he is keen to sign his new contract extension at Coventry City as soon as possible. That will be good news for Sky Blues fans, who fear the full-back and highprofile team-mates Scott Dann, Aron Gunnarsson and Keiren Westwood ...
HOW GOOD IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL?
Apr 01, 2009 ... PAGES 17, 18 & 19 ...
SEX BEAST JAILED FOR 22 YEARS; Warwickshire man preyed on kids for 40 years.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A PAEDOPHILE who sexually abused children as young as four over 40-years, is finally behind bars. Brian Hughes, aged 64, was given a 22-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 28 charges of child abuse, including indecent assault, indecency with a child, and rape. ...
PLUS.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Report, pictures from last night's crucial match PLUS PAGE 111 PAGES ...
School teams speak volumes.
Apr 01, 2009 ... CHATTY pupils from two schools in Coventry and Warwickshire are in the national final of a public speaking competition. Teams from Coventry's Tile Hill Wood School and Kenilworth School will travel to Cheddar, in Somerset, on April 18, for the final of the annual ...
Jury still out.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A CROWN court jury is considering their verdict on pub DJ Adrian Alleyne, 40, of Keresley End, ...
Body in canal.
Apr 01, 2009 ... POLICE have recovered a man's body from a Warwickshire canal. The man, who is believed to be in his 50s, was spotted in the Oxford Canal near the Barley Mow pub at Newbold in Rugby by a member of the public on Tuesday morning. The man's body was transferred to the ...
Knife charge.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A 34-YEAR-OLD Coventry man has appeared in court charged with slashing a man's face outside a pub. Christopher Windmill, of Dunhill Avenue, in Tile Hill, is accused of carrying out the knife attack by the Black Prince, in Jardine Crescent, shortly before 7pm on Saturday. ...
Victim named.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A CAR crash victim from Coventry who died just hours after getting engaged has been named by police. Gabor Benko, 30, was a passenger in an Audi A4 which rolled into the front garden of a house in Hockley Lane, Eastern Green, at 7.45am on Sunday. West Midlands Police ...
Rail scheme sparks fears; TRAVEL: Group concerned trains will bypass local stations.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mary Griffin A MASSIVE pounds 35 billion improvement plan is set to be rolled out across the railways today. Network Rail is spending pounds 90million of the pounds 65 billion five-year programme on the West Midlands, including extending the platform at ...
Contents.
Apr 01, 2009 ... 4 ..... Emergency/useful numbers 6 .....Local and national weather 7 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Late chemists 10 ... ... ... ... ... Letters and opinion 14 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... In Sympathy ...
InsideYour Telegraph.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Danger to all children Your MPs expenses Students light up the stage Your gifts are ...
Jodie Ann tragedy should never have happened S; OFFICIAL.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Les Reid A SCATHING report into the death of 23- month- old Jodie Ann Brown who died home alone in a fire in Coventry concludes the authorities could have prevented the tragedy. The child protection agencies had known of previous violence and neglect against ...
Action Plan to prevent deaths and injuries.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE review into Jodie Ann's death draws up a 19-point Action Plan to prevent deaths and injuries to other Coventry children. It concludes there are lessons to be learned for the council's social services, health trusts, police, and family court service CAFCASS. A ...
Pupils French for Guillaume.
Apr 01, 2009 ... SKY Blues' French midfielder Guillaume Beuzelin helped pupils to mind their language when he dropped in to class. He visited Davenport Lodge Preparatory School, Davenport Road, Earlsdon, Coventry, where pupils aged from five to eight performed a French song and asked him ...
Warning to cash machine users; APPEAL: Police called after suspected card-cloning device spotted.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Emma Stone POLICE are advising bank customers to be vigilant after a suspected cardcloning device was discovered attached to a cash machine in Warwick. The device was spotted by a member of staff at the Heart of England Co-op Society in Cressida Close, on ...
DAILY LOTTERY.
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A danger to ALL children; EVIL: Pervert abused four children over 40-year period.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Helen Thomas A PERVERT described as "a danger to all children" was today starting a 22-year jail sentence for child sex offences. Paedophile Brian Hughes admitted 28 sex offences against four children over a 40-year period. Yesterday, Coventry ...
Police praise victims' bravery.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE leading investigator in charge of bringing Brian Hughes to justice has welcomed the 22-year sentence handed down to him yesterday. Peter Herring, of Warwickshire Police, said: "I'm pleased with the sentence given today. "He's a very dangerous, calculated man who ...
Linda to star at carnival.
Apr 01, 2009 ... TELEVISION star Linda Robson will be the guest of honour at this year's Nuneaton Carnival. She is best-known for her role as Tracey Stubbs in the BBC smash hit comedy Birds Of A Feather and has also appeared in many popular programmes, including Come Dine With Me, I'm Famous and ...
Businesses spared after last minute rate reprieve.
Apr 01, 2009 ... BUSINESSES have been spared a five per cent hike in rates after the chancellor announced a last minute reprieve. The big rise in business rates - which was due to come into effect today - was reduced to a two per cent increase yesterday. Chancellor Alistair Darling ...
MPs' 'six-figure' bill after salary; ALLOWANCES: Smith furore has Brown speeding up expenses probe.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Les Reid COVENTRY'S MPs each claim a six-figure sum in allowances off the taxpayer in addition to their salaries, latest figures reveal. They include about pounds 23,000 claimed by Bob Ainsworth for his second home - a two-bedroom London flat - and pounds ...
Seven days seeing the sights of London in style!
Apr 01, 2009 ... Seven days seeing the sights of London in style! HOW TO BOOK: To take advantage of these offers, phone the reader travel team on 024 7650 0396 or to receive a brochure phone the 24-hour brochure hotline on 024 7650 0561 stating which one you require. TELEGRAPH READER HOLIDAYS - ...
Latest 20 join finals line-up; MODELSEARCH: More potential winners of competition.
Apr 01, 2009 ... HERE are the latest 20 finalists in the Modelsearch competition. A total of 201 potential contestants came to The Ropewalk Shopping Centre, Nuneaton on March 21 to enter the contest and they have been whittled down to a first group of 40 finalists in four age groups. ...
Play Easter thrills.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE extended Play Rangers scheme starts in Nuneaton and Bedworth on Easter Monday with a programme of activities for children from 10.30am daily. An extra pounds 40,000 has been added by the borough council to the ...
Car advertisment is too offensive.
Apr 01, 2009 ... AN ADVERT showing a Volkswagen engineer fighting with several versions of himself was shocking, offensive and unsuitable for children, the advertising watchdog ruled today. More than 1,000 complaints were made over the Volkswagen Golf advert, making it the fifth most ...
Big win not to be sniffed at; DREAM COME TRUE: But millionaire will stay at work.
Apr 01, 2009 ... A SNUFF manufacturer who won pounds 2.7 million on the National Lottery has no plans to give up work. Graham Forrest, 46, and his wife Fiona, 45, banked pounds 2,783,114 when their six numbers came up on last Saturday's double rollover. Mr Forrest is managing director ...
StarBirthdays.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Milan Kundera, novelist, 80; George Baker, actor, 78; Debbie Reynolds, actress, below, 77; Ali MacGraw, actress, 71; Jimmy Cliff, singer, 61; Gil Scott- Heron, poet and musician, 60; David ...
Raiders disguised as police hit Legion club.
Apr 01, 2009 ... POLICE warned people to ask officers for ID today following the recovery of a stash of police uniforms and equipment at a flat. More than 100 PCSO uniforms and hundreds of batons, jackets, body armour, handcuffs and CS spray holders were found following a raid committed by bogus ...
Pharmacy prescriptions boost.
Apr 01, 2009 ... MENTAL health patients in Coventry and Warwickshire will now be able to collect their medicine from local pharmacies. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - which runs the region's mental health services - has teamed up with Lloydspharmacy. The chain's 31 ...
A wizard show for students; ENTERTAINMENT: Musical hits stage.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: Michelle Darby PERFORMING Arts students at Foxford Community Arts College are today lighting up the stage performing the hit musical The Wiz. A staggering 85 students from year 10 will be appearing in the adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, originally performed by ...
DailyPoem.
Apr 01, 2009 ... STOKE GREEN CLOCK Yes, our clock too that stands on the green, Only its top now to be ever seen, In a steel, corrugated corset, all wrapped up, For years now, like this, has been stuck, No money to repair it so they say, So it is steadily crumbling and rotting away, Another landmark like ...
ToThePoint.
Apr 01, 2009 ... RE your play review of Hobson's Choice at the Loft Theatre, Leamington - Our Book Club, 29 of us, went to see this play on Saturday night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The whole production - actors, ...
Compassion for people needed; YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... I FEEL compelled to write in answer to K Lewis (Your Say, March 27) and his attack upon me. It never ceases to amaze me how animal caring, loving people who wouldn't say boo to a goose, can spew venom and bile in the direction of humans who have the audacity not to share their ...
What cheek councillors have; YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... HOW sad when councillors have to try and take the credit for something they have had nothing to do with. (Campaign to crack down on offroad bikes, March 27) Unfortunately, it would appear that the Henley Ward councillors are so desperate to appear to be doing something in the ...
Bring back our village halls; YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... THE credit crunch finds many families staying at home to save money, but life should not be spent watching TV within four walls. In the country the village hall was the answer. With many social clubs dying a death isn't it time for these clubs to be used as a community centre? ...
Why didn't Labour vote? YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... it is vital that politicians of all parties do what they can to tackle fuel poverty as figures show that 5m uk households are affected. that iswhy iwas pleased last year when the conservative party announced proposals to legislate to prevent excessive charges for using ...
We can't go back to Tory rule; YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... NEW Labour may not be what we hoped it to be, but the alternative would take us back to fascist Tory rule. Most of the Shadow ministers have served in the last Conservative government of the 1980s - 1990s (sell off of our industries, ...
A very different eye experience; YourSay.
Apr 01, 2009 ... REFERENCE your front page story on Monday about the pensioner nearly losing her sight due to the blunder at the hospital. I was diagnosed five years ago at the age of 37 with the juvenile form of Age Related Macular Degeneration called Stargardt Dystrophy. My ...
Reader Picture.
Apr 01, 2009 ... YOUGSTERS at Children's World Preschool at St Michael's Church Centre, Walsgrave, Coventry, had a lot of fun on Red Nose Day by collecting red items from home, decorating T-shirts ...and even reading the Telegraph. ...
Thank you for our school stuff; APPEAL: How your gifts are changing lives in Uganda: THE Telegraph and Global Care, the Coventry-based charity, have again linked up to appeal for school equipment for children in Uganda. Reporter HELEN THOMAS tells how much the goods, donated by you last year, meant to two of the African children.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Byline: HELEN THOMAS CHILDREN in one of the poorest areas of Uganda were given a huge boost to their education when they received school packs collected by Coventry Telegraph readers last year. Volunteers for charity Global Care were able to hand out 1,200 packs, ...
Autism in the spotlight.
Apr 01, 2009 ... TWO special events will be held just outside Coventry tomorrow to celebrate United Nations World Autism Awareness Day. The free Listen To Me! sessions will be held at Stonebridge Golf Club, Somers Road, Meriden. Support group Dimensions will bring together people with ...