Community event promotes healthy messages around food
Lessons around affordable, healthy and sustainable food were at the centre of a community event in Leamington on Saturday (March 2nd), hosted by The Lillington Community Pantry. Scores of people attended The Kind Communities – Kind Food programme, organised in collaboration with Warwickshire County Council. The interactive day was supported by more than 15 organisations […]
Make tracks to six more free Arches Days in Leamington
A popular local event celebrating the historic part of Leamington is to take place every month through the spring and summer, its organisers have announced. People are being invited to make tracks to The Old Town Railway Arches next month, for the first in a series of the special days, hosted by the business owners. […]
New Rotary exhibition puts us in the picture over Climate Change
The artistic efforts of ‘creative campaigners’ from schools and community groups across Coventry have resulted in the latest Rotary project about the importance of the environment. The Climate Change and Oceans Project Exhibition, which opened last week, is on the theme of pollution in our oceans and includes artwork by pupils from 12 primary schools […]
Award-winning Leamington brewery opens new taproom
A multi award-winning micro-brewery in Leamington has opened its doors to a new taproom in the latest chapter of growth. Windmill Hill Brewing Company is looking forward to welcoming visitors to the new-look venue, underneath the Arches at Victoria Business Park, which has been transformed with new custom booth seating, a six-line keg tap wall […]
Three friends from different backgrounds join forces to realise restaurant dream
Three friends from the same town in India who all started new lives in south Warwickshire, have together realised their shared vision of running a restaurant. Aby Joseph, Thomas Mathew and Joshi Johny have come to the business from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health care, film production, mechanical engineering and food – to […]
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
One of Shakespeare’s most captivating comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sees the return of Eleanor Rhode who was last at the RSC in 2019 directing King John. And what she and her creative team have created is, in my opinion, one of the best productions to come out of Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre. They have […]
BIG Sing to help hit right notes for trio of local charities
Community choir The BIG Sing, which shot to fame on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, are set to headline at this year’s Gala Charity Concert, in Rugby. The concert, organised by Rugby Dunsmore Rotary Club and Friends of The Hospital of St Cross, returns on March 10th, for the first time since the pandemic brought the […]
ALSO24 Festival line-up announced for Warwickshire
Leading lights in the worlds of music, comedy, wellness and food and nature, are among those this week announced as part of Warwickshire’s ALSO24 Festival – celebrating this year’s theme of Heavenly Bodies. Indie folk band Stornoway and comedian Sara Pascoe, head the impressive line-up for the UK’s most inspirational summer festival, once again taking […]
Local restaurant supports The Big Sleepout
Warm-hearted restaurateurs in Leamington Spa cooked up a storm when they turned up at a charity sleepout to feed cold and hungry fundraisers. Geanina Lacraru, who runs We Love Pizza in Regents Place with her partner Jose Ribeiro, handed out pizzas to more than 50 kind-hearted volunteers who took part in the Helping Hands Community […]
Good sports put their weight behind charity challenge for their school
Two good sports from Hatton are ‘pulling’ together to raise money for a cause close to their hearts. Friends Grace Lessard and Charlotte Foss have pledged to row the length of the River Avon within six weeks to fund new equipment for their school in Henley-in-Arden. And the girls, aged 13 and 12, already have […]