News in Kenilworth

Kenilworth has been nominated in a competition to find the nicest place to live outside London.

Award-winning lifestyle site Muddy Stilettos has shortlisted the Top 200 best places to live in 2022 - and now it is time to have your say.

Kenilworth Town Council has committed to offering the town as a "safe haven" for any potential refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, 137 people have been killed and over 300 wounded since the start of Russia's invasion.

Here is a list of job opportunities that are currently available in and around Kenilworth.

You can view more opportunities on our dedicated Kenilworth jobs page.

The school cycling campaigners Isadora McAinsh and George Bell deserve our thanks and encouragement for their efforts to hold Warwickshire County Council to delivering safe cycling facilities that it has promised.

WCC's leader, Cllr Izzi Seccombe made positive, if rather casual approval of the campaigners, but sadly, local authorities in our area have a consistently dismal record of heel dragging when it comes to real action for safe cycling.

Plans to build an athletes village at the University of Warwick for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have been given the go ahead by Warwick District Council.

The university announced in August 2020 that it had been chosen to house nearly 2,000 athletes during the games this July after £500million plans to create a purpose-built village in Birmingham were pulled.

The decision not to allow a Kenilworth care home to expand has been criticised by a local resident who said more needs to be done to tackle the dementia 'epidemic' in Warwickshire.

Earlier this month Kenilworth Manor Care Home had an application for a dementia garden and a two-storey dwelling refused.

Councillors have renewed calls to upgrade the Leamington to Coventry rail line to a dual track whilst urging railway bosses to allow mainline train services to stop at Kenilworth Station.

The demands come after one councillor dubbed the line an expensive white elephant with another lamenting that passengers had to endure a below-par service on one of the worst performing lines in the country.

A 'near death' experience and a series of other close encounters with vehicles have prompted one Kenilworth councillor to call for action from the Government, county council and Warwickshire's police chief.

Cllr Andrew Milton (Lib Dem, Kenilworth St John's) said he was frustrated at the lack of progress over the approved K2L (Kenilworth to Leamington) cycle route and admitted he was regularly scared by the antics of drivers as he cycled to work.

Warwick District Council has frozen its council tax charge for the coming year – one of just a handful to keep their portion of the bill the same as for 2021/22.

With the support of the Labour and the Whitnash Residents Association groups, the measures were approved at the full council meeting held this week at Warwick Shire Hall.

The owner of Kenilworth's Virgins and Castle pub has been named as the Best Wedding Caterer in the UK at The Wedding Industry Awards this year.

Midlands-based catering company Caviar & Chips snapped up the prize at the national finals in London on Wednesday 23 February.