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Sister act, brotherly love and a push from Mum makes Atherstone Ball Game 2020 'one for the family album'

By Nick Hudson

24th Feb 2020 | Local News

On the ball: Sister act Janneen Bernard, left, with this year's signed ball and Lou Hadley kissing the one from 2013

The best kept secret of this year's Atherstone Ball Game is finally out in open play.

For the 2020 version of the town's single biggest claim to worldwide fame will be down – in big part – to a mother of six who believed in "keeping the faith" of a sporting tradition passed down the generations across ten centuries of time.

Final hats off to Atherstone's RAF bomb crew veteran Andy Croxall as 'respect and gratitude goes with you'

By Nick Hudson

24th Feb 2020 | Local News

We will remember him: Andy Croxall on Remembrance Sunday last year

A World War II veteran has left "notes from the heavens" as Atherstone bid a final farewell to a man who defied deadly survival odds and horrors of being an aircrew member in the RAF's biggest bomber during the global conflict.

Flag-bearing personnel from all three armed forces paid a fitting tribute of "respect and gratitude" at the funeral of 97-year-old Reginald 'Andy' Croxall who died in the George Eliot hospital four days after a fall at his Croft Road home.

Speed hump debate: Driving down the middle of the road into Atherstone town centre is 'still reinforcing the reason for them being there'

By Nick Hudson

22nd Feb 2020 | Local News

White van Merv or Marina: Playing it down the centre

Fed-up motorists in Atherstone who "get the hump" by swerving round traffic calming measures are inadvertently doing road safety a huge favour, Nub News has learned.

The 'sleeping policemen' on Witherley Road have sparked controversy for almost a decade and drivers are continuing to avoid them by steering their vehicles down the middle of the split bumps.

Drivers in Atherstone town centre want more signs to warn of 'nightmare' mini roundabouts

By Nick Hudson

20th Feb 2020 | Local News

Four-way split: Cars criss-cross from the directions of Coleshill Road and Station Street

Worried motorists are appealing for action after claiming the majority of mini roundabouts in Atherstone are like playing the National Lottery – without a chance winning.

And a plea has gone out for additional warning signs to be placed close to the one of the busiest – crossing the junctions of Coleshill Road, Station Street, Coleshill Street and South Street.

Menace from Dennis subsides with river levels returning to normal in Atherstone and district

By Nick Hudson

20th Feb 2020 | Local News

Almost gone: The floodwaters in Spon Lane, Grendon

Villagers around Atherstone and district are breathing more easily today as the worst effects of devastating Storm Dennis have subsided.

While parts of the Midlands are braced for a month's worth of rain in the next 24 hours bringing more heartache, the overflowing Rivers Anker and Sence are returning to normal.

Mancetter vicar on coronavirus: We apply 'common sense' to our everyday practices in church

By Nick Hudson

19th Feb 2020 | Local News