News in Kenilworth

Kenilworth's Talisman Theatre has said it is "enormously grateful" for a £100,000 town council grant that could see work on the theatre's planned extension begin this year.

The grant forms part of the £1.3million needed for the redevelopment project.

A £1.86million technology investment is on its way to Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service.

The investment will pay for new 'Control Rooms Systems' (CRS) technology and comes from Warwickshire County Council's Change and Fire Transformation funds.

A Kenilworth on-call firefighter has this week begun handing out Covid-19 home testing kits throughout the town.

Alison Insley has been asked by Warwickshire County Council to help supply kits to residents after she was recently made a Covid-19 Community Champion.

'Secret Views of Kenilworth' is the theme of the latest free art exhibition to be hosted in the empty 'Poundland' unit on Warwick Road.

Comprised of pieces produced by local artists, the exhibition has been on display since the beginning of April.

Labour candidates will be contesting all three of the Kenilworth wards at the upcoming Warwickshire County Council Elections in May.

Jane Green, who is also standing in the Kenilworth Town Council by-election, will be the Labour Candidate for Kenilworth St John's.

To celebrate the first week of non-essential shops and hospitality venues being able to open again we have put together a small gallery of images from around Kenilworth.

Organised sports have also started up again, so we have also included a few pictures from Kenilworth Wardens FC, Kenilworth Wardens CC and Kenilworth Women's Rugby Club.

Fire crews from Kenilworth Fire Station have been called out to deal with a pub fire in Alcester today (April 17).

At around 4.30pm this afternoon Kenilworth Fire Station's water carrier was mobilised to High Street in Alcester where the grade II listed Three Tuns pub was ablaze.

A planning application for a new primary school and up to 620 new houses in Kenilworth has today (April 16) been approved by Warwick District Council.

The houses are to be built on the land east of Glasshouse lane, around the Woodside Hotel and behind the development of the new Kenilworth School.

A record number of reception places are to be allocated across Warwickshire today (April 16) with 91 per cent of children being offered a place at their first-choice school.

Today, National Offer Day, will see parents across the nation learn which primary school their children will attend of the 2021/22 academic year.

Residents in Kenilworth will have to wait an extra three months before their planning applications can be processed.

Warwick District Council has told applicants that staffing shortages as well as the impact of the pandemic have led to a backlog in applications yet to be processed.