News in Kenilworth

The full council of Warwick District Council will meet next week (Wednesday 24) to discuss a potential merger with Stratford District Council to form one 'super council' for south Warwickshire.

The proposal to create 'A single statutory South Warwickshire Council covering all of the activities currently carried out by SDC and WDC' will potentially see the two districts merge by 1 April 2024.

Here is a gallery of photographs of Kenilworth Railway Station spanning 170 years of history from when the station was first opened in 1844, right up until the reopening in 2018.

Four of the photos in the gallery were taken in 1964, just a few months before the last passenger train stopped at the station. These show the booking hall interior, as well as views of the platform from both the Coventry and Leamington Spa ends of the station.

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Here are all the headlines and news stories from this week in Kenilworth.

The biggest news for Kenilworth this week came on Tuesday night when Warwick District Council's Planning Board gave unanimous approval for the relocation of Kenilworth Rugby Club from Glasshouse Lane to the land east of Warwick Road.

Between June and December 1266 Kenilworth Castle was the location of a siege that was to become the longest in English medieval history.

The royal forces under the control of Prince Edward (later Edward I) laid siege to the castle to wrestle it from the control of those rebelling against the English King, Henry III.

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'.

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

Continuing their theme of appreciating the outdoors, this month's column from Kenilworth's Most Famous Couple, Neil and Gayle Bradley, sees them delve into the mystery of a local monkey puzzle tree

I've always been fascinated with monkey puzzle trees. And the superstition and folklore that surrounds them. This prehistoric alien-like tree with its fierce prickles and spiky leaves, which evolved not to deter monkeys, but the grazing dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era, 250 million years ago.

Mayor of Kenilworth Cllr Richard Dickson has been reaching out to the town through his monthly column with Kenilworth Nub News, his first piece for 2021 comes in the form of a video as he discusses the year just gone and the year ahead

The video can be accessed at the top of this page.

With temperatures set to remain above 5C this week, and snow looking unlikely for this year, we have put together a gallery of images of Abbey Fields during the White Christmas of 2010

2010 saw a few instances of snow in the lead up to Christmas, with smatterings hitting Coventry, Warwick and Kenilworth in the last week of November. The first large snowfall came on the night of Monday, December 6, with residents waking up to a blanket of snow over Kenilworth on Tuesday 7.