News in Kenilworth

This week marks a whole year since the Covid-19 Support Kenilworth Group first met to discuss how the town and the community was to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

12 months on, the group is now looking outwards to thanks all of those who have supported them along the way.

Kenilworth's MP has said that it 'would have been wrong' to have dismissed the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill this week.

The Bill came before parliament for a second reading on Tuesday (March 16) and MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright voted in favour of it progressing.

Warwick District Council has announced that all indoor swimming pools and gyms in Kenilworth and the rest of the district will reopen in line with stage two of the Government's roadmap.

However, no date for a reopening of the lido at Abbey Fields has been given

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Warwickshire County Council is currently consulting residents for their views on an update to the Local Transport Plan. With the questionnaire closing on March 18 we have broken down the key points of the consultation for our readers.

WCC currently has a transport plan in place, running between 2011 and 2026, however it has said that "the document has become outdated. It is too static; meaning it is not adaptive to the changes in transport, social and environmental trends.

Kenilworth Nub News aims to be supportive to every element of the community, from businesses, shops, and people, to charities, clubs and sports organisations.

We will be profiling some of these local businesses, and groups regularly over the coming weeks in a feature called 'Up Close With'.

Could Warwick District Council's decision to remove recycling banks actually increase the fly-tipping it is intending to stop? That is the question being asked by some Kenilworth residents this week.

At the beginning of 2021 WDC announced that all recycling banks in the district were to be removed as a result of fly-tipping and vandalism making the operating costs too high.

MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright has said that his support for a new Gigafactory located at Coventry Airport comes "not without condition" as he considers the impact for local people.

It was announced in February that planning permission was being sought for the factory to be built on green belt land near the airport, land which falls within the Kenilworth and Southam constituency.

Members of the maternity team for South Warwickshire NHS have been thanked for their hard work and dedication by Princess Anne this weekend.

In 2020 South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust was awarded the prestigious 'Midwifery Service of the Year' prize in the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) annual awards.