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Sunday, May 20th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Work will start work this spring on a £4.1 million housing scheme for Waterloo Housing Association, at Wood End in North Warwickshire.
Lovell will build 37 new houses and eight apartments at the Islington Crescent site. The new homes will be for affordable rent, shared ownership or for sale through the housing association.
They will be built [...]
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Spot checks have revealed the illegal and harsh world of east European workers packing vegetables for the country’s biggest supermarket chains.
Inspectors from the Government’s new agricultural labour agency found serious breaches of employment laws when they visited three packing plants in the West Midlands
None of scores of migrant workers had contracts of employment and most [...]
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
From 13th May, The Sit-A-While Bookshop and Tearoom, Butler’s Book Emporium and Throckmorton’s Bookshop will be opening their doors on a Sunday for the summer.
Having just distributed a leaflet across the Midlands promoting North Warwickshire’s bookshops, the booksellers have already seen a marked increase in trade from visitors travelling here specifically for books. So with [...]
Saturday, March 10th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Chris Green, owner of Bates The Butchers in Atherstone is celebrating an important industry award.
His own home cured bacon has been recognized for it’s excellence with a gold award presented by The British Pig Executive.
Chris beat off all comers from The East Midlands to win the coveted award in February at Peterborough.
“This is what locally [...]
Saturday, March 10th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
For people looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift local author Christine Freeman will be signing copies of her books Images of Atherstone and Memories of Atherstone between 11am – 1pm on Saturday 17th March at Throckmorton’s Bookshop on Atherstone’s Market Square.
Peter Playdon, proprietor of Throckmorton’s, said:
“Christine’s books and our other local history titles are [...]
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