The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Batsman downplays return to city of his birth • I am happy in Birmingham, says Trott It was a little over 90F when Jonathan Trott appeared beside the cobalt blue of his hotel poolside in his home town of Cape Town today. But England's latest South African cricket hero had thoughts only for his Harborne home in Birmingham. While Table Mountain shimmered and the Kirstenbosch Gardens beckoned...
Bristol 410 Adventures (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Sunday 1 November was the date of the Bristol Owners’ Club Heritage Trust Lecture. This was held at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, and was presented by Toby Silverton, the Chairman of Bristol Cars. The subject of Toby’s lecture was the development of the Fighter – Bristol’s 8 litre, V10 supercar. Launched in 2003, the Fighter was entirely developed from scratch...
swpp and bppa (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Raymond Dillon has recently become a member The Society of International School & Event Photographers SISEP A new ‘Society’ to support School and Events photographers by providing a range of focused benefits. Find more photographers from on The Society of International School & Event Photographers SISEPweb site Raymond can be contacted at: 07549 189210 The Society of International...
swpp and bppa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Raymond Dillon has recently become a member of The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers (SICIP) Find more photographers from England on The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers (SICIP) web site Raymond can be contacted at: 07549 189210 The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers (SICIP) is a partner organisation...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The mother of a woman facing drugs charges in Trinidad says her daughter is innocent and was abducted by two men.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
About 30 senior academic posts are to go under plans by the University of Warwick to merge two departments.
Conservative History Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The secondary blog of the Conservative History Journal is finally in existence. The aim is to post very long pieces on that with shorter links on this, the primary blog. There may well be future technological developments on the site but warnings will be posted. The first piece on the other blog is a long interview Mark Coalter, a frequent contributor to the Journal, had with Professor John Ramsden...
Ochre And Ocre - from small acorns... (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Image via Wikipedia One of the best things about doing so many Christmas shows is that you get to do your Christmas shopping in work time - and you can get something unique, often handmade, and not available on the high street. So I thought I ought to share a few more of the lovely stalls I have come across recently. A surprise one I came across whilst at Upper Rissington last week was Herb Farmacy...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Virgin Trains tickets staff at Coventry are set to walk out in a row over the increased use of machines.
Dan Essex (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Last Thursday evening I attended a meeting of Rugby Borough Council's Customer and Partnerships Committee in Church Lawford. The meeting was being held as part of that committee's review of the effectiveness of Parish Plans . A Parish Plan is a document produced by a community (normally through the parish council) that sets out how the people who live in the area want it to develop in the future. The...
nunoncastors (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Mother criticises MoD after dead son’s name is misspelt on Elizabeth Cross The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was horrified to find that his name was spelt wrong on the Elizabeth Cross that she received. An accompanying scroll signed by the Queen had the same error. Lieutenant Richard Shearer, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, died in a roadside [...]
Porta Caeli (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Since 26th October I have been posting a selection of photographs taken on a tour undertaken in mid October through East Anglia and ending in Warwickshire. The first stop on the journey was at the exquisite Rushton Triangular Lodge and the last was Baddesley Clinton, both sites having powerful recusant associations. An early stop in Norfolk was the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham where the Slipper...
Warwickshire Birding (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Warwickshire Draycote Water Green-winged Teal (J.Judge)
Luxist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
We have always been entranced by the history, both cultural and architectural, of the grand country houses of England . The London -based magazine Country Life has long been the essential chronicle of these iconic estates , having featured a different country house in each weekly issue since it was founded back in 1897 and advertised many hundreds more in its property pages. A stunning new book, The...
Charlotte Hupfield Ceramics (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I had a brilliant day at a local craft fair on Sunday, it was in Rugby at The Benn Hall . This was actually one of the closest events to home that I've ever exhibited, I usually go for bigger events but I was very impressed with this one. A good number of people were flowing through the door all day, and I sold lots of items so was very pleased. I sold a few of my newest favourite pieces, and I was...
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