Farmhouse in Warwickshire where Dick Turpin was rumoured to have stashed loot for sale for £1.8m

A luxury farmhouse on land where infamous highwayman Dick Turpin is rumoured to have stashed his stolen loot has gone on the market for £1.8million. The Grade-II listed Harwoods House sits on a sprawling 12 acres of land in Ashorne, Warwickshire and is for sale with Bromwich Hardy estate agents.   The property is being marketed … Read more

Car thieves steal catalytic converter from Warwickshire driveway

Moment brazen thieves steal catalytic converter from car parked on owner’s driveway while he ate his dinner inside the house  Two thieves rolled up outside a house in Hurley, north Warwickshire on Sunday The men jacked up a Vauxhall Astra on the driveway to steal part of the exhaust One of the men used an … Read more

REE Automotive opens new engineering centre in Warwickshire

Electric vehicle tech firm REE Automotive to create 200 high-skilled jobs at new engineering centre in Warwickshire REE Automotive said it would invest about £66m and create around 200 jobs It added that it plans to establish 15 ‘integration centres’ across the globe REEcorner and REEboard are the company’s two main technologies By Harry Wise For … Read more

Second Briton to be given a vaccination is William Shakespeare, 81, from Warwickshire 

Is this is a syringe I see before me? Second Briton to be given a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination is William Shakespeare, 81, from Warwickshire Mr Shakespeare, from Warwickshire, received the shot in left arm this morning First vaccines were administered by nurses at University Coventry Hospital  Maggie Keenan, 90, became the first to receive her … Read more

Hotel review: Mallory Court near Leamington Spa in Warwickshire

An Inspector calls… at an ivy-clad hotel where guests pay £15 to use the pool and a ‘course’ in the tasting menu is a pot of olives (but breakfast is ‘top-notch’) Mallory Court, near Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, is part of the Eden Collection and has a new ESPA spa   The dinner menu confused him, … Read more

Girl, three, dies after being knocked down by car right outside her house in Warwickshire

Girl, three, dies after being knocked down by car right outside her house and suffering appalling head injuries as woman, 32, is arrested for dangerous driving A three-year-old was hit by a black Skoda in Warwickshire at 5.45pm on Friday  The girl was rushed to hospital but died from her injuries on Saturday evening  A … Read more

Warwickshire Police investigates officers who ‘attended Bank Holiday barbecue’ after six fell ill

Police officers who ‘broke lockdown rules with Bank Holiday barbecue’ face probe after six fell ill with coronavirus at one station Six officers based at Bedworth police station tested positive for coronavirus The outbreak was reportedly caused by officers going to a barbecue on May 25 Warwickshire police is investigating five officers who were said … Read more