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• Barker wickets put Bears on top

  19-05-2015 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  All-rounder Keith Barker continues his fine match with six wickets on day three for Warwickshire against Durham.
  
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• Coventry City: Tony Mowbray releases eight Sky Blues players - BBC Sport

  19-05-2015 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Coventry City: Tony Mowbray releases eight Sky Blues players
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  Coventry City have released eight players following Tony Mowbray's decision to remain as Sky Blues boss. Strikers Frank Nouble, Shaun Miller, Simeon Jackson and Blair Turgott have been allowed to leave. Midfielders Al Bangura and Adam Barton, ...
  Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray says job starts now - even on his holiday!Coventry Telegraph
  Boro legend Tony Mowbray named as Coventry City's new full-tim
  
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• Man jailed for body-in-bin murder

  19-05-2015 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man convicted of bludgeoning to death a Romanian woman whose body was found in a wheelie bin is jailed for life.
  
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• More of YOUR old school photos - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 18:17 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  More of YOUR old school photos
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  We're compiling picture galleries to celebrate your old school days - and we want you to keep sending them in for our new nostalgia feature. We're publishing pictures from schools in Coventry and Warwickshire across the decades. So, whether you left ...
  
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• Wasps RFC announce seven player contract extensions for 2015/16 season - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 17:32 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Wasps RFC announce seven player contract extensions for 2015/16 season
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  Wasps RFC have signed off the season by confirming that seven members of their squad have signed fresh deals. Elliot Daly, Ashley Johnson, Matt Mullan and Joe Simpson, first-team regulars as the Ricoh Arena-based club clinched a European Champions ...and more »
  
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• Outbreak Festival postponed after rumours of 'reprisals' for Coventry stabbing - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 17:32 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Outbreak Festival postponed after rumours of 'reprisals' for Coventry stabbing
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  A dance music festival due to held this weekend has been postponed amid rumours that there could be reprisals following a stabbing in Coventry last year. In an announcement this week the organisers of Outbreak Festival, held at Donington Park, said ...
  
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• Wasps sign up seven on new contracts

  19-05-2015 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wasps sign four key players on new deals, Elliot Daly, Joe Simpson, Ashley Johnson and Matt Mullan, as well as three youngsters.
  
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• 'True face of Shakespeare' revealed

  19-05-2015 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the only known portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime, according to an academic expert.
  
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• Tony Mowbray: Coventry manager signs new two-year contract - BBC Sport

  19-05-2015 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Tony Mowbray: Coventry manager signs new two-year contract
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  Tony Mowbray has extended his stay as Coventry City manager by signing a new two-year deal with the League One club. The ex-Hibernian, West Bromwich Albion, Celtic and Middlesbrough boss, 51, joined in March on a short-term contract until the end of ...
  Coventry City FC release eight players ahead of 2015/16 seasonCoventry Telegraph
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  Boro legend Tony Mowbray named as Coventry C
  
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• CCTV: Coventry Police want to speak to this man after self-service till theft - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 15:46 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  CCTV: Coventry Police want to speak to this man after self-service till theft
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  Police have released CCTV footage after cash that was accidentally left at a self-service till was stolen. The money was left at the till in Asda, Brade Drive, Walsgrave, on May 11, by a Coventry mum. Officers have released the CCTV footage which shows ...
  
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• Eight players released by Coventry

  19-05-2015 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coventry City release eight players following Tony Mowbray's decision to remain as Sky Blues boss.
  
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• Look: Your reactions to news Coventry could join forces with Birmingham - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 15:37 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Look: Your reactions to news Coventry could join forces with Birmingham
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  Our report that Coventry City Council is to press ahead with a potential link-up with Birmingham and councils in the Black Country to create a West Midlands Combined Authority has drawn a furious reaction from our readers. The ruling Labour Group led ...
  Coventry City Council backs West Midlands combined authority planBBC News
  Coventry set to join Birmingham and Black Country in new reg
  
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• Gloucestershire All Golds run in record score against Coventry - Gloucestershire Echo

  19-05-2015 14:21 via gloucestershireecho.co.uk
  
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  Gloucestershire All Golds run in record score against Coventry
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  The All Golds put in a hugely impressive show to record their biggest Kinstone Press Championship One win. They ran in 12 tries and it ended a run of three successive defeats. Related content. All Golds delpleted by injuries ahead of York City Knights ...
  
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• Princethorpe College bookworms are 'millionaires' - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 13:29 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Princethorpe College bookworms are 'millionaires'
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  Readers at Princethorpe College have been doing the maths to work out which one of them has read more than three million words this academic year. The Accelerated Reader Scheme is a programme organised by the college, which sets targets for pupils ...
  
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• Neighbours' rallying call after Coventry pensioner brutally attacked in own home - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 13:03 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Neighbours' rallying call after Coventry pensioner brutally attacked in own home
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  This 85-year-old man was attacked in his home in Northfield Road, Stoke, Coventry, by a man claiming to be from Age Concern. A community in Coventry has united as one to support a pensioner who was brutally beaten on his own doorstep. The Telegraph ...
  
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• Charge over lollipop stick robbery

  19-05-2015 12:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is charged with robbery over an incident that saw an elderly lollipop man in Coventry pushed to the ground and have his stick taken.
  
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• Coventry backs combined council plan

  19-05-2015 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coventry moves closer to joining the proposals for a West Midlands combined authority.
  
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• Keresley shooting: Man goes on trial for attempted murder - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 12:29 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Keresley shooting: Man goes on trial for attempted murder
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  A builder was shot in the face at almost point-blank range in a bid to execute him – which only failed because of chance and 'skilled medical surgery,' a jury has heard. It's alleged the shot, which left a fragment of bullet lodged against victim ...
  
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• Woman arrested on suspicion of drink driving after Canley crash - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 11:32 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Woman arrested on suspicion of drink driving after Canley crash
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  A 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a huge crash on the A45 in Coventry in the early hours of this morning. Police and fire crews were called to the stretch of road next to The Phantom Coach pub in Canley at 1.30am ...
  
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• Coventry Magistrates Court: Stealing razor blades from Wilkos among cases heard - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 11:26 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry Magistrates Court: Stealing razor blades from Wilkos among cases heard
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  Leon Edmundson, 43, of Harnall Lane West, Foleshill, admitted stealing razor blades worth £83 from Wilkos, and two counts of attempting to steal razor blades worth £160 from Wilkos. He was jailed for 10 weeks and has to pay an £80 victim surcharge, £85 ...
  
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• Coventry and Warwickshire weather: Conditions warming up as we approach ... - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 11:18 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry and Warwickshire weather: Conditions warming up as we approach ...
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  The Jet Stream has been to our south for some weeks now, hence the cool month so far. As we approach the weekend it will be heading north, so warming up in time for the Bank Holiday, and with high pressure close by, it should be mainly dry too.and more »
  
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• One in five Southern trains 'late'

  19-05-2015 10:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One in ten London Midland trains did not arrive within five minutes of their scheduled time, latest rail regulator figures show.
  
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• Police hunt wanted man from Nuneaton - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 09:52 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Police hunt wanted man from Nuneaton
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  Adam Baldwin, aged 39, was jailed in 2012 for actual bodily harm and was released on licence in March this year. Warwickshire Police said he has been recalled to prison after breaching his licence conditions on Saturday, May 2. Baldwin also has links ...and more »
  
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• Coventry Half Marathon runners raise £30000 for Zoe's Place baby hospice - Coventry Telegraph

  19-05-2015 06:47 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
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  Coventry Half Marathon runners raise £30000 for Zoe's Place baby hospice
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  Coventry's only baby hospice has thanked the runners who took on the Coventry Half Marathon this year and raised £30,000 for the charity. Around 150 entrants wore the bright yellow T-shirts of Zoe's Place Baby Hospice as they pounded through the ...
  
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