News in Atherstone

Dreamy Cow, a farm and business on Culloden Farm, Norton-Juxta-Twycross, Atherstone. (Image by Dreamy Cow)

A successful local business is in the process of setting up an ice-cream parlour featuring its own products, in an eco-friendly venture that reflects local interest in sustainability.

In an interview today, the founders of Dreamy Cow, Norman and Tony, revealed that they were hatching plans to start an ice-cream parlour every Saturday, from mid-August.

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Locals have been keeping fit throughout lockdown. (Image by Pexels)

Council officers and staff have been praised for their work in trying to keep North Warwickshire residents fit and active during lockdown.

Councillors at this week's community and environment board meeting of North Warwickshire Borough Council were told how leisure facilities were dealing with the new 'normal' and that a leisure app was being developed for the area.

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The hair salon, offering locals a job opportunity, is working in partnership with NWSLC. (Image by New Images Hair, Atherstone).

Businesses across Warwickshire are working with North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) to find talented individuals to join their teams, as the economy starts to recover in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Recruitment drives are underway at companies including New Images Hair Design which is seeking to recruit an apprentice hairdresser for its Long Street salon in Atherstone.

NWSLC is currently advertising around 20 vacancies in the county for businesses looking to recruit apprentices in accounting, hairdressing, logistics, engineering, and hospitality based in Nuneaton, Atherstone, Market Bosworth and Coventry.

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One of many Turner-esque paintings, using the medium of a black Parker pen and watercolours. (Image by John Longcroft-Neal)

John Longcroft-Neal, a local Nuneaton painter who has been on Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine, has his stunning watercolours in the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. The various paintings of owls, hedgehogs, local and national areas of natural beauty, are on display until the 14th August 2021.

In conversation with him today, the talented artist described his creative process as a 'non-linear pastiche' of inspiration, taking note of other artists. He draws upon Edwardian art he was inspired by on a trip to Edinburgh, where he viewed John Singer Sargent's portraiture. But he also has a love of abstract, modern, and contemporary art.

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Councillor Jacky Chambers believes that masks should be worn at the discretion of the Council. (Image by Pexels)

Atherstone Town Council has been requested by five councillors to reach a voluntary agreement about the wearing of face masks at meetings. Some of the councillors claim that by going mask-free, they are simply following government guidance, now that 'Freedom Day' has arrived.

Councillor Jacky Chambers (OBE), a former Director of Public Health in Birmingham, said:

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The Atherstone Gallery, which has been around since 1980. (Image by Elle Morgan)

The cool air of the Atherstone Gallery is inviting, this July - and so are its stunning pieces of artwork. In the wake of international crises, artists and creatives have often come together to gift pieces of work to the national or local art scene. After the First World War, for example, Claude Monet presented his famous paintings of water lilies to the French public. He gave them beauty after the chaos and destruction.

It turns out that, over a century later, artwork produced in response to an international upheaval is still something special. In the wake of the pandemic, many artists have taken solace in natural landscapes, the few available spaces to the public when everything shut down. People have taken solace, therefore, in scenes depicting the sea when they have been longing for a beach holiday.

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The school improved the wellbeing of pupils significantly using bespoke sessions. (Image by iStockPhoto).

High Meadow Community School in Coleshill, West Midlands, led by Headteacher Debby Hughes, has been focusing on improving the wellbeing and happiness of all its pupils with after-school, fully-funded 'Happiness and Resilience Academy' workshops this term.

The well-attended workshops were being run by Laura Dumbleton-Jones, a wellbeing coach from Midlands-based national wellbeing organisation Happy Confident Kids, which specialises in improving the wellbeing of young people.

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