The Bank of England has announced they’ll be issuing a new £50 note following speculation that the denomination might be discontinued. They’ve also asked the public to nominate famous and inspirational figures to feature on the note.

As residents will know the council has spent over £1,200 on van rental to block a hole following broken bollards at the entrance to Broadgate.

Labour councillors will today approve plans to provide luxury hotel Coombe Abbey with a £2 million bail out. Under the proposals the hotel will be able to borrow funds up to the value of £1.95m which is repayable over a ten-year period.

Conservatives on Coventry City Council have raised concerns about plans to send three Labour Councillors to attend a ‘peace forum’ in Russia at the end of October. The proposal is expected to be rubber stamped by Labour cabinet members at a meeting on Tuesday 2nd October. 

Hockley Lane in Eastern Green could be about to get a pedestrian crossing following a two year campaign. Councillors representing Woodlands ward are now consulting residents about the scheme to install a puffin crossing and they’ve received a letter informing them of the proposal.

Following on from over 2 years of campaigning and a recent report attacking Coventry Council highways department where they were accused of being “deluded” in denying the problems of inadequate signage, after 60,000 fines were issued since 2012 in the ‘Restricted Parking Zone’ by chief adjudicato

Coventry Conservatives have welcomed new figures showing that there are 95407 fewer children in workless households in the West Midlands since 2010.

Councillor Tim Mayer has written an open letter to the Labour Deputy Leader of the council and Cabinet Member for Policing and Equalities Cllr Abdul Khan following the discovery 2 pieces of signed artwork he thought were missing after being kindly donated to the council by Wasps Rugby and Wasps N