Showing posts with label Warwickshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warwickshire. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1548

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Sam Bright explains what is missing from the Covid Inquiry PPE report: "Long before the pandemic struck, the governing party had estab...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Reg Calvert and his boarding school of rock

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In the Sixties there was more than one way of getting it together in the country. You could, like Traffic, have your own cottage out in the ...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Farewell to M.J.K. Smith, the Harborough District's England captain

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The former England cricket captain M.J.K. "Mike" Smith died yesterday at the age of 92. He was a middle-order batsman with Leicest...
Friday, March 06, 2026

The LNWR branch line from Weedon to Leamington Spa

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It's time we had another good disused railway video. This one follows the route of the old LNWR branch line between Weedon and Leamingto...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

GUEST POST The Red Lion, Evesham, and the Warwickshire Avon

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River Avon and Workman Gardens, Evesham Peter Chambers voyages along the Severn and Shakespeare's Avon, visits an Evesham pub and consu...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

The Joy of Six 1468

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"By-elections follow their own logic, not Westminster narratives, and Gorton and Denton has all the makings of a classic contest - a di...
Monday, December 08, 2025

The Joy of Six 1446

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Cicero's Songs , making a welcome return, has naught for your comfort: "The decadence of the American Empire is upon us, and the co...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The murder of Charles Walton at Lower Quinton in 1945

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You can't beat the local by-election previews that Andrew Teale posts every week. Yesterday there was an election in the Lib Dem held Q...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Reggie the Antisocial Swan of Avon finds love in Devon

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There's a happy sequel to a recent Headline of the Day. Reggie the black swan, who was removed from Stratford-upon-Avon because he was ...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2025

The Antisocial Swan of Avon

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This just in from BBC News : A black swan has been removed from a historic town after it spent nine months "terrorising" other bir...
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Joy of Six 1412

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Chris Grey analyses the dangers of the new far right in Britain: "It seems to be quite different to earlier versions of far-right poli...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Kenilworth voted the sixth best place to live in Warwickshire

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I phoned in to the meeting from Bournemouth, only to find that the judges had already decided that this blog's Headline of the Day Award...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

GUEST POST Forget your two-horse race: Increasingly it's a cavalry charge

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Augustus Carp wanders off from his usual subjective enquiries into councillor defections to consider some objective examples of real voters...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

I spent £25k building massive quirky cupcake in my magical West Midlands garden

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The Shropshire Star wins our Headline of the Day Award. In their ruling, the judges point out that a) it's a free country and b) you can...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

Ed Davey: "It feels even better than the general election"

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Embed from Getty Images Ed Davey gets a good write up in the Guardian today and is not afraid to sound optimistic about Thursday's loca...
Monday, March 17, 2025

The Joy of Six 1337

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Susie Courtalt says the rise of toxic masculinity and the war on 'woke' threaten women’s rights around the world: "For whateve...