DESPERATE last-minute moves are being made to have a crucial part of the Stratford district’s long-awaited planning core strategy looked at all over again. The…
AN unrecorded First Folio of William Shakespeare’s collected works was sold at auction in London yesterday (Wednesday) for £1,874,500, well above the…
THE first phase of a massive and hugely controversial housing scheme at Gaydon and Lighthorne Heath (GLH) has been given the go-ahead. Members of Stratford-on-Avon…
AT Stratford-on-Avon District Council’s annual meeting today (Wednesday) Cllr Sue Adams (Cons, Alcester and Rural) became the new chairman of the authority. Cllr…
AN internationally-renowned string quartet has been unable to take part in the Chipping Campden Music Festival this year because of apparent problems…
EXTREME disappointment has been voiced that Stratford-upon-Avon will be taking its quota of 12 Syrian refugee families over the next four years instead…
DURING the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 — when Irish Republicans mounted an armed rebellion against British rule — one of those who stood out as a…
A CROSS-PARTY group of senior local politicians this week backed the campaign to keep Britain in the EU because membership is “clearly in the best interests…
THE reason extra buses were not running from Stratford-upon-Avon’s Park and Ride during the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations was because they would have…
STAFF at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Austin Reed, Viyella and Country Casuals outlets voiced worries this week over the group going into administration and…
FORMER tenants of historic Mason’s Court in Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon — and some of their supporters — staged a demonstration outside the 15th…
ON Thursday, 5th May, voters will go to the polls in the second elections for the posts of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. The first…
HELEN MUNRO, chief executive of Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust since 2012, is to retire in October this year. Mrs Munro’s period at the helm of the trust…
THE historic Mason’s Court in Stratford-upon-Avon town centre is to be auctioned off on Monday, 9th May. Stratford Town Trust owns the 15th century, Grade…
TWENTY-NINE planned operations and 22 clinics have been cancelled in South Warwickshire as a result of Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s strike by junior doctors. But…
AROUND 30 full-time and part-time jobs at the BHS store in Stratford-upon-Avon are under threat following the announcement that the company is to go into…
CONTROVERSIAL plans to introduce pay-and-display parking charges at Stratford’s park and ride facility at Bishopton will come into force in June. The…
CONCERNS have been voiced about the fact that the Conservative candidate for the post of police and crime commissioner for Warwickshire is married to…
THE owner of Bancroft Cruisers in Stratford-upon-Avon made one final journey on his beloved trip boat on Monday. John Macartney-Filgate's coffin was transported…
EDWARD Skett, whose company operated Stratford-upon-Avon’s markets for over 50 years, has died at the age of 84. He was born in Handsworth, Birmingham,…