Nuneaton News
DOCTOR’S SURGERY SET TO CLOSE AS PATIENTS TOLD TO LOOK ELSEWHERE
A Nuneaton doctor’s surgery is being closed and patients have been told to find another GP. It has been confirmed by the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) Whitestone Surgery will close on Friday, April 24. It says it follows...
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‘URGENT ACTION’ IS NEEDED A MURDER INVESTIGATION IS UNDER WAY AFTER WOMAN GOES MISSING
A MURDER investigation is underway into the disappearance of a missing Nuneaton woman Katie Love. It has been more than a week since the 48-year-old was last seen and police confirmed they fear she ‘may have come to harm.’ At the time of going to...
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TOWN CENTRES PUT UNDER 96 HOUR POLICE ORDER
THE results of 96 hour long police order across Nuneaton and Bedworth town centres have been revealed. The local policing team for the borough took the decision to bring the rarely used powers into force. At the time, it was said that this was to...
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TWO COMPANIES AND WOMAN GUILTY OF 13 FIRE SAFETY BREACHES
TWO Nuneaton companies and a woman have been prosecuted for ‘a fire safety disaster waiting to happen.’ It follows a fire inspection at 4-12 Coventry Street, which includes the commercial units on the ground floor and the flats on the upper...
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GUILTY
AN Afghan man has been found guilty of abducting, raping and taking an indecent video of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. A jury at Warwick Crown Court yesterday afternoon (February 10) found Ahmad Mulakhil, aged 23, guilty of one count of rape, one...
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NUNEATON’S HOSPICE’S ‘GREAT SADNESS’ AS IT IS FORCED TO CLOSE ONE OF ITS SERVICES It was launched more than a decade ago
NUNEATON’S hospice has confirmed its ‘great sadness’ at being forced to close one of its treasured services. Since 2009, the Mary Ann Evans Hospice has offered a Lymphoedema Service. This was to fill the ‘growing gap in provision’ for patients living...
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GOVERNMENT GREEN LIGHT ELECTIONS AFTER LEADER OUSTED
THE government has ruled that Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council 2026 elections should go ahead - hours after its leader was sensationally ousted. The Housing Secretary Steve Reed announced that 29 local council elections in May will be postponed...
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Historic meeting set to take place tonight
AN historic Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council meeting where the leader could be voted out takes place tonight. It is the first time an official ‘vote of no confidence’ meeting has been called at the Town Hall. The Nuneaton News reported that...
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MAJOR WARNING ISSUED OVER TOWN EYESORE
THE owners of one of Nuneaton’s biggest trouble-hit eyesores have been issued a major warning. Nuneaton and Bedworth Police said the Kingsholme pub had become a “magnet for antisocial behaviour, drug taking, trespass, and even arson attacks”. Issues...
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CYBER ATTACK HIT SCHOOL IS STILL CLOSED
A cyber attack hit Nuneaton school cannot ‘safely welcome pupils back’ for days. That is the latest from HIgham Lane School,which saw its whole IT system ‘taken down’ during a cyber security attack at the weekend. It meant that the school could not...
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PLANS ARE OUT FOR THE NEW ‘FLAGSHIP’ LIBRARY ON THE WAY
DETAILED plans have emerged for the new ‘flagship’ library and business centre in Nuneaton town centre. The major £24.4 million ‘Justice Walk’ development in the Church Street and Vicarage Street area has already been given outline planning...
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TOWN RAIDS STAGED TO TACKLE ‘BIGGEST CRIME RIGHT NOW’
FIRST-OF-A-KIND raids were staged in Nuneaton to tackle the town’s ‘biggest’ crime right now. Nuneaton Police executed what were the first ever public nuisance warrants in Warwickshire to tackle trouble-making teenage motorbike riders. It is a crime...
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MASKS WARNING FOR HOSPITAL VISITORS
NUNEATON hospital patients and visitors are being urged to wear masks amid rises in an infection. The George Eliot Hospital, like others across the country, has confirmed a rising number of cases of flu. This, the ‘Eliot has said, is earlier than...
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