Kenilworth February news roundup: Beer festival, train assault and showroom closes
Here is a roundup of the biggest stories from the news in Kenilworth this February.
Alongside a host of planning applications, and a number of high profile council decisions, the last four weeks have seen Nub News cover everything from HS2 and fundraisers to local business successes.
Community News
Tickets are now available for a 'family friendly' beer and music festival at Kenilworth Rugby Club this spring.
A local resident has been helping asylum seekers living locally to integrate with other groups by forming a football team.
Local residents have been invited to a public meeting to find out more about the maintenance work at Abbey Fields lake.
Kenilworth Lions has announced the date for the 2023 Grand Show.
Coventry and Warwickshire's largest one-day agricultural show will return to the same site that welcomed a bumper crowd last spring.
A local consultant has been shortlisted for a major local business award, just two years it was launched.
Cars belonging to two of Britain's comedy icons are going under the hammer in Stoneleigh this weekend.
The artistic director of a Kenilworth theatre has said it is currently one of the most exciting times for the venue in his 40 years of involvement there.
The much-loved Urban Sounds for Uyogo charity talent show returned to Kenilworth School this month.
Plans to relocate Kenilworth Rugby Club and create a new "new centre of rugby and community excellence" have taken a major step forward.
Local residents and businesses are being encouraged to dip into their pockets to support the new Kenilworth School for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each week.
Police
The driver of a car - which has been involved in a number of thefts in Coventry over the past few weeks - was arrested after a short chase in Kenilworth.
Two men have been banned from driving after being caught speeding multiple times along the same stretch of the A46.
A man in his 20's was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a major collision in Kenilworth.
A man arrested in Kenilworth as part of the investigation into the Boxing Day death of Cody Fisher has been released.
An interactive map, created by Nub News, shows where crimes have been reported around Kenilworth.
More than 100 reckless drivers were caught texting, scrolling through their phones, carrying drugs and not wearing seatbelts by an undercover police lorry patrol.
A 'vile and sleazy' man who sexually assaulted a teenager on a train in south Warwickshire has been jailed for 20 months, following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation.
Emergency services were called to a crash on Red Lane at the start of the month where a car was found on its side in the middle of the road.
A Kenilworth man has been jailed for five years and eight months after he deliberately drove into a man he was arguing with, leaving him with serious injuries.
Thieves killed and skinned a lamb in a farmer's field in Stoneleigh before stealing two more lambs.
Business news
The owner of a Curves gym in Kenilworth is looking to reach a broader demographic as the business picks up following the pandemic.
Kenilworth's MP has praised the work of a local pub for its continued inclusion in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide.
Kenilworth Lions' Furniture Store has been hailed a 'climate champion' by the district council.
An Avon Dassett company has been fined nearly £70,000 after a worker fell through the roof of a retail unit in Milton Keynes.
New for this year, the Hatton Arms has launched its weekly fondue nights, served every Wednesday from 5-9pm, and we went to try it out.
Kenilworth Carpet's showroom at Farmer Ward Road has closed, and the company has been wound up.
Six local eateries have been given five-star food hygiene ratings since the start of 2023 by the Food Standards Agency.
The current CAMRA Warwickshire Pub of the Year has been put up for sale for £565,000.
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