By Nick Hudson
26th Feb 2020 | Local News
It started as the cup cakes and trophy winners that brought cheers to the crowd.
But sadly it ended in a drama no one foresaw and a premature finish for the 821st Atherstone Ball Game.
By Nick Hudson
26th Feb 2020 | Local News
It started as the cup cakes and trophy winners that brought cheers to the crowd.
But sadly it ended in a drama no one foresaw and a premature finish for the 821st Atherstone Ball Game.
By Nick Hudson
26th Feb 2020 | Local News
Atherstone Ball Game secretary Janneen Bernard has spoken of the moment she took the heart-breaking decision to call time on an event that has beaten the weather, world wars and government lawmakers over ten centuries.
The hair salon owner stared at a stricken match steward and went back outside the event headquarters in Long Street to order the immediate halting of an ancient sporting spectacle which had gone unchallenged for 821 years.
By Nick Hudson
26th Feb 2020 | Local News
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By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
Community spirit was judged the undisputed winner of the abandoned 2020 Atherstone Ball Game after the town rallied to the aid of a 38-year-old steward thought to have had a heart attack in the latter stages of the event.
Paramedics fought to revive the stricken official, named locally as Martyn Burton, inside the event headquarters of Atherstone Conservative Club.
By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
Atherstone Ball Game was halted in dramatic fashion today after a steward collapsed inside the event headquarters with a suspected heart attack.
The male steward was taken ill as he went to get a glass of water at Atherstone Conservative Club on the corner of Woolpack Way and Long Street.
By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
Atherstone Ball Game claimed its first casualty before the start in the shape of new chairman Rob Bernard.
The 47-year-old, who also acted as chief marshall for the event, turned up at today's world famous spectacle sporting a shiner between his eyebrows.
By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
Atherstone and district has found itself in the front seat of a civic drive to erase "fear and distress" by making back garden and organised firework activities much quieter affairs and more animal-friendly in future.
Tomorrow night in Atherstone, councillors are expected to light the blue touchpaper on a campaign piling pressure on Westminster to bring in new laws affecting private and public pyrotechnic displays nationwide.
By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
The new guardians of Atherstone Ball Game have sounded their own battle cry to ensure the town's world-famous event lasts for a thousand years.
Event chairman Rob Bernard has pleaded with modern-day gladiators of the ancient Shrovetide right of passage to allow the spectacle to carry on for future generations.
By Nick Hudson
25th Feb 2020 | Local News
Families in villages on the outskirts of Atherstone have been told to "protect themselves" as the threat of serious flooding returns to the area.
The communities of Sheepy Magna, Sheepy Parva and Sibson are back on danger alert from the rising waters of the River Sence.
By Nick Hudson
24th Feb 2020 | Local News
A national award-winning residential home in Atherstone mentioned in G8 summit talks on living with dementia has welcomed the roll-out of an initiative to help with future hospital stays for people in care.
Merevale House is considering taking the 'Red Bag' scheme "on board" to make visits to the George Eliot faster and more effective.
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