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• Look: Coventry Golf Club's 120 year history in fantastic archive pictures - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 20:31 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Look: Coventry Golf Club's 120 year history in fantastic archive pictures
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  Andreas Oosthausen, winner Bob Shearer one of Australias most successful professional golfers, and sponsor George Hammond from the 1973 European Tour Piccadilly Medal hosted at Coventry Golf Club. Teeing off at the seventh hole at the Coventry Golf ...
  
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• Coventry Half Marathon: McDonald's staff ready to defend title - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 20:04 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry Half Marathon: McDonald's staff ready to defend title
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  Staff from a fast food restaurant hope to prove they'll be 'lovin' it' as they line up for this year's Coventry Half Marathon. Over 20 runners from the city centre McDonald's, in Cross Cheaping, will be looking to help the restaurant defend its company ...
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• Coventry RFC aiming to return to winning ways when they take on Macclesfield - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 19:16 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry RFC aiming to return to winning ways when they take on Macclesfield
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  Coventry RFC aim to return to winning ways at the Butts Park Arena tomorrow when they entertain National League One stragglers Macclesfield. Cov's 16-game winning run ground to a halt at Richmond last week when they were ultimately happy to escape ...
  
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• Coventry mum's bid to buy £2000 treatment the NHS won't fund - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 19:01 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry mum's bid to buy £2000 treatment the NHS won't fund
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  A devoted mum is trying to raise £2,000 after being told that the treatment her baby son needs is not available on the NHS. Stephanie McAveeney was shocked to find that she would have to find the money to buy a helmet herself for her four-month-old son ...
  
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• Seva School gets go-ahead for Walsgrave move - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 18:23 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Seva School gets go-ahead for Walsgrave move
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  Planners have given the go ahead to turn a former office building into a permanent home for Coventry's first Sikh school. Former Barclays building Link House in Eden Road, Walsgrave, is to become classrooms for the new Seva School, a Sikh free school.
  
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• Injury-prone Coventry City defender Reda Johnson ruled out for up to a month - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 18:12 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Injury-prone Coventry City defender Reda Johnson ruled out for up to a month
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  Coventry City are set to be without Reda Johnson for yet another spell after a scan confirmed the defender has a small thigh muscle tear. The former Sky Blues skipper will miss Saturday's trip to Preston and could be sidelined for up to a month after ...
  
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• Look: Review: The History Boys at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 17:24 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Look: Review: The History Boys at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
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  Kate Saxon's fresh adaptation of Alan Bennett's incredibly funny play, about a group of Northern sixth-formers in a 1980s grammar, introduces a new class of talent. The History Boys was a big hit sensation when it opened nearly 11 years ago at The ...
  
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• Coventry City: A sleeping giant set to awake or one consigned to the lower ... - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 17:22 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry City: A sleeping giant set to awake or one consigned to the lower ...
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  One comment said 'Lies, damned lies and statistics' in that the stats had been used to bolster a weak argument that City are not a big club in waiting. Each Football League side was ranked on their average attendance this season, the number of seasons ...
  
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• Look: Where to go 'glamping' in Coventry and Warwickshire - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 14:39 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Look: Where to go 'glamping' in Coventry and Warwickshire
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  Sleeping under the stars is all well and good... until you realise how uncomfortable you are, lying staring at a canvas roof, with twigs and roots underneath you. Unless you are heading to Glastonbury, you'd be utterly mad to think about a camping holiday.
  
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• Coventry Gateway plan: The pros and cons - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 13:47 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry Gateway plan: The pros and cons
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  A planning application for the £280million project – which would be built on green belt land near Coventry Airport – was initially passed by Coventry City Council and Warwick District Council. But after around 1,000 objections were lodged, Secretary of ...
  
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• Coventry dog orders: Council will NOT change plans to stop dogs being let off ... - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 13:30 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry dog orders: Council will NOT change plans to stop dogs being let off ...
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  Coventry council's decision to ban dogs off the lead in parts of the city will NOT be changed. Tory councillors had “called in” the Cabinet's decision to create four new dog orders which will mean owners must keep their pets on a leash in certain areas ...
  
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• Revealed: Wasps RFC deal to buy Ricoh Arena sees taxpayers getting loan ... - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 12:51 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Revealed: Wasps RFC deal to buy Ricoh Arena sees taxpayers getting loan ...
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  Details of the deal which saw Wasps secure the Ricoh Arena business can be revealed after a Telegraph investigation. Information has been unearthed which shows some of what Coventry City Council and Wasps agreed in October during the course of ...
  
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• Blind Coventry student tells of her discrimination battle - Coventry Observer

  05-02-2015 12:48 via coventryobserver.co.uk
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  Blind Coventry student tells of her discrimination battle
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  Buy photos » Lottie and her dog Layla are facing a battle to find a home because city landlords don't want dogs in their properties. Picture by Jon Mullis 05.015.008.cov.jm1 (www.buyphotos247.com). A BLIND Coventry student has faced discrimination by ...
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury returns to Coventry on peace trip - Coventry Observer

  05-02-2015 12:48 via coventryobserver.co.uk
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  Archbishop of Canterbury returns to Coventry on peace trip
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  THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury enjoyed a whistle-stop trip around his former home city this week. The Most Reverend Justin Welby, former canon at Coventry Cathedral, visited educational institutes around the city as part of his tour of places around the ...
  
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• League leaders Ambush have a great weekend - without even playing! - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 12:22 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  League leaders Ambush have a great weekend - without even playing!
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  Ambush's title hopes were lifted even though they weren't in action as closest challengers Gatehouse Tavern and Coventry Jaguar slugged out a 3-3 draw. Joe Burridge (2) and Danny Fraser were on target for Tavern while Damian Chisholm, Scott Haymes ...
  
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• Shopping in Coventry city centre IS getting better after a fall in the number ... - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 12:05 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Shopping in Coventry city centre IS getting better after a fall in the number ...
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  Coventry city centre has seen a fall in the number of empty shops over the last year. According to the latest figures, the amount of vacant stores has dropped slightly in the last 12 months - from 239 in 2013 to 225 in 2014. The city's shop vacancy ...
  
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• Coventry and Warwickshire Weather: North wind will blow but no forecast of snow - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 11:22 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry and Warwickshire Weather: North wind will blow but no forecast of snow
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  The press are at it again, this time threatening us with the 'Beast from the east' and dire consequences, says Bablake Weather Station. Winds from an easterly quarter have been pretty much absent this winter thus far, however, so the Eurasian continent ...
  
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• Tawny owl in 10-mile roof rack trip

  05-02-2015 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tawny owl flew into the path of a car and became trapped after getting its head stuck in the roof rack of the vehicle.
  
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• Welsh star Martyn Thomas joins Coventry - Coventry Observer

  05-02-2015 10:50 via coventryobserver.co.uk
  Welsh star Martyn Thomas joins Coventry
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  COVENTRY demonstrated their ambitions to progress to the next level of rugby union after signing former Dragons, Gloucester and Welsh seven's full-back Martyn Thomas. The 27-year-old has moved to the Butts Park Arena from French side Massy and will ...
  
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• Wasps fan's 'revenge' Tigers poster

  05-02-2015 10:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Wasps rugby fan uses crowdfunding to pay for a poster campaign promoting his team in Leicester, home of rival side Tigers.
  
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• Coventry city centre could be 'quartered' - into nine - BBC News

  05-02-2015 10:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Coventry city centre could be 'quartered' - into nine
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  A blueprint for how Coventry city centre could look for the next 20 years has been published by the council. The Area Action Plan breaks the city into nine "quarters" for business, shopping and leisure. The council said there was a "disparity" between ...
  
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• Nine 'quarters' blueprint for city

  05-02-2015 10:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coventry could be divided into nine "quarters", the council says, as it publishes a blueprint for the city centre.
  
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• Six Coventry figureheads honoured at citizenship awards ceremony - Coventry Telegraph

  05-02-2015 06:50 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Six Coventry figureheads honoured at citizenship awards ceremony
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  Six high-profile figures have been handed a civic honour just one step below the freedom of the city of Coventry. The Coventry Award of Merit was handed out by the Lord Mayor at a packed St Mary's Guildhall. Those who attended to receive the honour ...
  
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