News in Atherstone

A climate change champion has spoken of the need to "unite as a nation" on the issue after staging a walk out during the garden waste collection debate at a full borough council meeting in Atherstone.

Tory Councillor Shelly Lebrun told Nub News today her highly-visible exit came as a result of vote being called on the green bin charge before members on the local authority were able to compare budgets proposals.

Thousands of green bins in Atherstone and district will not be collected in future without householders forking out an annual fee of £40 for a Tory "stealth tax", councillors have claimed.

June 1 is the date the new charge for garden waste collection will begin despite a rearguard action by Labour on North Warwickshire Borough Council to "bin" the proposals.

Weather experts got blown off course after forecasting Atherstone and district would be blanketed in snow this morning

Rush-hour traffic in and out of the town was due to be met with "accumulations" of the white stuff on Thursday – with a "75 per cent" chance of precipitation.

The weather could be the only certain winner of Atherstone Town's epoch-making FA Vase quarter-final clash with Consett AFC on Saturday.

Adders chairman Brian Henney told Nub News this afternoon the club is doing "everything in its power" to ensure the game against the Northern League Division One side is played .

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.