News in Atherstone

Business leaders in Coventry and Warwickshire have joined national calls to keep the furlough scheme running into the summer.

The latest estimates show that nearly four million employees were being supported by the furlough scheme at the end of December 2020.

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Cllr Dave Parsons (Lab, Polesworth) is a councillor at both Warwickshire County Council and North Warwickshire Borough Council.

A councillor at North Warwickshire Borough Council has criticised Warwickshire County Council for the way they have handled parking charges at Kingsbury Water Park.

Criticisms have been raised over the Broomey Croft area of the water park where temporary parking charges allow only annual parking season ticket holders to park

PARKED CARS ARE A WELCOME SIGN IN WELCOME STREET AS 'STAY AT HOME' MUST STICK FOR A WHILE LONGER

THE BUMPER-TO-BUMPER parking on Atherstone's most inviting thoroughfare tells its own story of the life-changing effects coronavirus lockdown has had on the UK over the last 28 days.

THE ONLY LEAGUE TABLE WE REALLY WANT TO SEE INVOLVES THE LIKES OF TOWN SPORTING STARS JOE OBI AND MARTIN WEBB

NEARLY 200 countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic are watching each other like hawks and pondering over something as simple as two sets of three-letter acronyms.

H2] LET'S SET MOBILE PHONE ALARMS AND AT 8pm TONIGHT CHEER AND CLAP OUR NATIONAL HEROES AS THEY BATTLE COVID-19 AND DISGRACEFUL DEFICIENCES IN PERSONAL PROTECTION[.H2]

ATHERSTONE and district is currently still allowed exercise once a day – well let's put it to good use tonight and turn a one-off tribute to our NHS national heroes into a regular weekly dignified salute.

MP CRAIG TRACEY: BREADTH OF DIFFERENT OFFERS OF HELP FROM THE TOWN AND RURAL PARTS OF CONSTITUENCY ALIKE IS 'FANTASTIC'

IT IS difficult to cover any other topic in this week's Man About the House column.

NOTHING of note occurred in global history on November 17 to come anywhere remotely close to challenging the significance of a 55-year-old man being identified as the first confirmed case of coronavirus on that date last year.

The disease is believed to have been traced to a seafood "wet" market where living wild animals are sold for meat in Wuhan, a city in the Chinese province of Hubei.

HERE at Atherstone Nub News we're no different from the rest when it comes to how we handle coming to terms with a silent, but deadly, enemy which is coronavirus.

We're all scared of getting it and the potential consequences, and frightened, too, for our loved ones, friends and neighbours.

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