News in Kenilworth

On Monday 7 December, hedgelaying work was started on the hedge to the right of the path from the War Memorial down to the leisure centre.

The work was carried out by Paul Sinton and his team, on behalf of Warwick District Council.

The winners of the Kenilworth Town Council's Shop Window Competition have now been announced

The business chosen as the overall winner was The Hair Lounge, with their sparkling silver and white Christmas scene. The team were "thrilled" to be awarded a trophy and wreath for their efforts.

With several hundred pre-registrations for free online tickets to date, this year's Kenilworth Lions Carol Concert already looks a great success.

However, the Lions are keen that as many local people as possible know about the concert, and can watch it when it has its premiere showing on YouTube on Saturday 19th December at 6.00 pm.

THREE local businesses that rose to the challenges of the pandemic have been recognised with a new special award.

The first COVID-Resilience Leamington Business Awards, organised by Talk Business UK, were held as part of a virtual ceremony hosted by local DJ Kirsty Leahy from Noisegate Media Studio in Leamington on Friday night.

The traditional Boxing Day event hosted at Kenilworth Castle will this year be a ticketed event for obvious reasons and tickets will be made available this week

Boxing Day with the mayor, Cllr Richard Dickson, at Kenilworth Castle will take place from 9.45am – 12.30pm on December 26, and will feature Morris Dancing, Live Music and Refreshments.

The town's Mayor and MP were joined by Santa today as they spread some Christmas cheer and thanked local businesses on their 'Buy a Gift in Kenilworth' day

MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright joined the Mayor of Kenilworth Cllr Richard Dickson, and Father Christmas today (Saturday, December 12) on a short tour of the town centre as they encouraged residents to Buy a Gift in Kenilworth.

An eight-year-old rescue dog from Kenilworth Dogs Trust is looking forward to spending his first Christmas in his new home after waiting more than six years for someone to adopt him

This time last year Patterdale Terrier, Monty, was getting ready to spend yet another Christmas at Dogs Trust Kenilworth, but 2020 was to be the year he found his forever home when Paul Bennett and Dianne Malsbury welcomed him into their life.

A new Leamington restaurant is supporting its local community this Christmas by joining forces with a charity that helps the homeless

We Love Pizza, in Regent Place, is supplying its leftover food at the end of the day to Helping Hands Community Project soup kitchen which provides hot food to hundreds of people a month.

Eight youngsters from Kenilworth aged 5 to 11-years-old have just completed a sponsored fast to raise money for local food banks

The children, Amelia Hunt, Leyton Hunt, Millie Lammas, Annalise Milburn, Samuel Beaman-Henderson, Jasper Nicholls, Seb Darch and Henry Wright, who are all pupils from Crackley Hall School in Kenilworth, set out to raise £100, but their thoughtful fundraiser has touched people's hearts, and has so far raised just over £2,000.

Cars ignored direction from Kenilworth fire crews today as they were called out late this afternoon to deal with a vehicle fire on Leyes Lane

Nobody was injured as a Peugeot 207 was engulfed in flames on the junction with Windy Arbour, however two motorists clearly ignored the precautions set out by the emergency services.