Coventry Conservatives have launched a campaign to persuade the Royal Navy to name one of their new frigates HMS Coventry. It follows an announcement in September by the government that it intends to purchase five new type 31 frigates at a cost of £1.3bn which could enter service by 2023.

Coventry City Council has backed plans put forward by Conservatives which could see new railway stations opened in the city.

Councillors representing Woodlands Ward in Coventry are calling for a review of the layout of a busy junction in Tile Hill. They’re concerned that the layout of the A45/ Broad Lane junction could be contributing to a poor safety record, noise pollution and traffic delays.

Opposition leaders at Coventry City Council have written to the Government asking them not to impose a congestion charge in Coventry.

Conservative members in Coventry have been voting to decide who will represent the party in the next set of local elections in May 2020. At a packed meeting four candidates were selected to contest some of the key battleground seats in the city.

Coventry Conservatives are celebrating after holding onto Wainbody Ward with an increased majority. The result means that Conservative candidate Mattie Heaven will join Cllr John Blundell and Cllr Tim Sawdon, who also represent Wainbody Ward, at the Council House.

Coventry Conservatives have selected Mattie Heaven as their candidate at a forthcoming by-election in Wainbody ward. The date of the poll is yet to be announced. It follows the death of former Lord Mayor, Gary Crookes, who had represented the ward since 1995.

Conservatives have set out their five-year vision for Coventry ahead of this year’s local elections on Thursday 2nd May. In the document they promise to prioritise job creation, improve transport links, support libraries and clean the city up.

Councillors will meet next week to consider calls for an independent investigation into bullying at Coventry City Council. It follows the release of a survey by a trades union which found that 85% of respondents felt they had been bullied at some point.

Former greenbelt land at Eastern Green in Coventry could end up with almost an extra thousand houses on top of what had previously been agreed. That’s almost 50% more than the 2,250 agreed in the Local Plan.