Recently added articles from Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England):
Ben Day Podcast - updated every Monday.
Aug 04, 2008 ... WHEN I was asked to write a weekly column for the newspaper, I was delighted. I spend six days a week talking nonsense on the radio, so the opportunity to have my nonsense printed in the paper as well is a real honour! If you've never heard of ...
In court: Villagers foil [pounds sterling]4 million cocaine deal.
Aug 04, 2008 ... More than [pounds sterling]4 million of cocaine was dumped in tiny Birdingbury after a taxi driver drugs courier realised a quick-witted local was becoming suspicious. Hassan Ceesay, 48 and of Greenwich, London, was jailed for ten years on Friday after pleading guilty to ...
Wimbourne Town 4 Leamington 0.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Brakes' new boys got a baptism of fire on Saturday as the team were thrashed 4-0 in a friendly at Wessex League side Wimborne Town. Regulars Jamie Towers, Martin Heir, Liam Reynolds and Mark Bellingham were all missing from the line-up, following defeat in the previous match at ...
New Waitrose to transform town.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Seven years ago, Waitrose first unveiled ambitious plans for a Kenilworth supermarkert. Terms were agreed and contracts exchanged on the 43,000sq ft store in 2005 and this week the new store opened marking the first major completion of the [pounds sterling]20million development ...
In the courts...
Aug 01, 2008 ... The following have appeared before magistrates: Thomas Alan Mellor, 18 , of Hidcote Close, Sydenham, was ordered to attend drug treatment and given 18 months of supervision for shoplifting and breaking a conditional discharge. Alan Greenaway, 43, of Regent Place, ...
Get off my land! International marksman opens fire.
Jul 31, 2008 ... An international clay pigeon shooter could lose his licence after he intimidated a lost lorry driver by firing shots over his vehicle. Birmingham skip company manager Lee Bennett had been misdirected by his sat-nav when Lighthorne farmer Isaac Watson, 66, loosed three rounds ...
Jon makes history as Austin Healeys go home to Warwick.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Legendary Austin Healey sports cars are going home to their old factory in Warwick. Jon Everard, who started as an apprentice at the Donald Healey Motor Company at the Cape in Warwick in 1962, has bought part of the old site for his Austin Healey restoration firm, JME Healeys. ...
Phone box fight gets official backing.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Campaigners hoping to save payphones in 29 rural locations near Southam have received backing from planning officials. As reported in the Courier last month, BT has earmarked for closure 51 payphones in Stratford district and 19 in Warwick district, in response to a lack of ...
Who lost their camera when balloon landed in village?
Jul 31, 2008 ... It's not every day a hot air balloon lands in Kineton - so perhaps it was understandable for a villager to lose her camera in the excitement. But now, five weeks later, it has turned up - in the balloon. And the man who flew it is keen to reunite the camera with its owner. ...
Phone woman denies death by dangerous driving charge.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A woman accused of using her mobile phone while driving near Wellesbourne is to stand trial charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Lynne-Marie Howden, of East Street, Long Buckby, Northants, was driving her Mercedes CLK220 on the A429 at Charlecote between ...
Bishop of Warwick in 'inspirational' poverty walk.
Jul 31, 2008 ... More than 600 faith leaders from across the world were joined by the Bishop of Warwick the Rt Rev John Stroyan in a walk of solidarity against poverty. In the first demonstration of its kind, members of the Anglican Communion led the group through London, carrying a banner ...
Leamington team in Great Rebel Raft Race.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Environmental campaigners from Leamington will join crowds at a regatta in London to protest against the existence of a power station. Groups taking part in the Great Rebel Raft Race will sail to the coal-fired plant in Kingsnorth, Kent, in rafts made of used plastic bottles ...
Young mums project wins award.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Giving care and independence to young mothers has led to an award for a Leamington organisation. Warford Lodge in Radford Road has received an honour from the Christian Alliance Housing Association for the way it involves the people it works with in its decision-making. ...
Former boxer fights for compensation for 'racial insults'.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Racist abuse at a Leamington haulage firm caused a former British boxing champion to quit his job, a tribunal has heard. Andy Halder was driving lorries for Maxi Haulage when he allegedly received racial insults from colleagues - and he claims he had to leave the job because he ...
No to lay-by burgers in Leamington.
Jul 31, 2008 ... A fast food van has been banned from operating in a Leamington lay-by. An application for permission to sell kebabs, burgers and cold drinks off Myton Road was refused by Warwick District Council on Monday as members feared the vehicle might endanger the public and reduce ...
'Land girl' Molly so proud of her medal (pity it came in the post).
Jul 31, 2008 ... A Leamington woman has finally received recognition for her hard work as part of the war effort more than 60 years ago. But 83-year-old Molly Bull was disappointed that her Women's Land Army medal came through the post last week instead of being pinned on at a presentation ...
Ban the bag: Plastic to be phased out?
Jul 31, 2008 ... Plastic bags could soon be banished from shops in and around Leamington. Members of the district council have agreed to support an idea put forward by the Warwick Chamber of Trade to try and phase out the single-use carrier bag. Such bags would be replaced with ...
Clarissa dances into the Royal Ballet.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Hatton ballet dancer Clarissa Griffin is celebrating after winning a place at a prestigious ballet school. The eight-year-old has been a pupil at the Oakley School of Dance in Leamington for two years and has been awarded one of 15 places on this year's Royal Ballet School ...
King's girls relive the 1970s at reunion.
Jul 31, 2008 ... King's High School in Warwick has turned back the clock with a reunion and celebration of school life during the 1970s. Some 110 'old girls' and staff who attended the school during the 1970s returned for the first ever 'decade day'. The old friends and colleagues had ...
Charity boxes stolen in vets' break-in.
Jul 31, 2008 ... Thieves stole charity boxes and laptop computers from a veterinary surgery in Whitnash over the weekend. The burglars broke into Heathcote Veterinary Surgery in Heathcote Road, Whitnash between the evening of July 25 and ...