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The best places in Coventry and Warwickshire to see the Solar Eclipse 2026

The UK will not see another deep partial solar eclipse until 2050

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Inside Coventry’s new City Centre South: First look behind closed doors as transformation begins

The huge regeneration project is well underway as the demolition phase draws to a close

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FOOTBALL - Coventry United discover FA Cup preliminary round opponents

United will travel to Step Five side Whitchurch on Saturday, August 22 with kick-off at 3pm at Black Park Road.

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Joe Wicks joins in Coventry's 'brilliant' record-breaking park run - in pictures

The lockdown fitness hero joined in the event at the War Memorial Park

The Coventry Observer

The quiet convenience changing how Coventry shops

Shopping in Coventry looks different from how it did even a few years ago. The change is not always dramatic. It is not only about big retail parks, delivery apps, or high street regeneration.

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Met Office warns Coventry to be hit by 15 hour long 'extreme heat' in new alert

It comes as temperatures are set to soar

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Questions that left Warwick team stumped on BBC University Challenge

Yeh, Hartley, Gabrielatos and Payne represented Warwick on University Challenge yesterday (August 10). But can you answer the questions they got wrong?

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The unsolved Warwickshire Tombstone Murder: Olive Bennett's 1954 Stratford cold case

More than 70 years on, the 1954 murder of Stratford-upon-Avon midwife Olive May Bennett — strangled and weighed down in the River Avon with a tombstone wrenched from Shakespeare's own churchyard — remains one of Britain's most baffling unsolved cold cases.

The Coventry Observer

As Drought Grips Britain, Garden Birds Are Going Hungry, Here's How to Help

With half of England now officially in drought and July recording its lowest rainfall on record for the month, gardeners across the country are being urged to

The Coventry Observer

Burnham Set to Hit Households With £25bn Tax Raid, Economists Warn - NATIONAL NEWS

Pensioners and entrepreneurs face the sharpest squeeze as Capital Economics warns of a Budget...

The Coventry Observer

Medically unfit and drink-drivers among 12 stripped of licences as police crack down on dangerous motorists

Warwickshire Police say they have taken action against 40 drivers found to pose a danger to other road users in the past six months, with 12 now in the process

The Coventry Observer

FOOTBALL - Coventry City discover Carabao Cup second round opponents

The Sky Blues will make the long trip to Home Park in the week commencing August 24.

The Coventry Observer

'Remarkable' Warwickshire ChangeMakers honoured at special awards ceremony

Warwickshire ChangeMakers returned to St Mary’s Church in Warwick for the second year to celebrate people who make a difference to the county

The Coventry Observer

Ministers Unveil New Curbs on Vape Shops and Betting Outlets in High Street Crackdown - NATIONAL NEWS

The government has set out a package of measures giving councils greater control over what opens on Britain's high streets, targeting vape shops, betting shops

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Affordable flats plan unveiled for former Royal British Legion club site

Proposals have been submitted to clear the site and build a three-storey block of flats

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New restaurant on Earlsdon eyesore bank site will make 'positive contribution' say planners

Council says it has asked developers to modify the proposals and is now convinced they are an "acceptable" way of reviving the defunct premises

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Five men jailed after chasing and attacking man inside Coventry's Spice Lounge takeaway

Five men have been jailed following a violent disorder attack on a man inside the Spice Lounge takeaway in Coventry. Mustafa Yassin, Wesley Osunde, Issa Kassim, Tyree Lieng and Elhoussaine Aboushahba chased the victim into the takeaway on Primrose Hill Street in Hillfields before launching a brutal ...

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Concerns over future of shopping in Coventry as work starts on City Centre South

The council insists its residential-led regeneration will mean smaller and more interesting niche shops moving in to change the face of city centre retail

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Tributes to influential Coventry musician in latest Coventry Telegraph death and funeral notices

Vibert Edward Cornwall, also known as Ray King, was a huge figure in the SKA and 2-tone movement

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Former Central Six charity shop in Coventry could become 24 hour gym

Plans submitted to the council have been recommended to be granted with conditions