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

Mystery as elderly couple in their eighties are found dead in Warwickshire house

Couple in their eighties found dead in their Warwickshire home with ‘no signs of suspicious behaviour’ may have died in murder-suicide as they struggled with second lockdown, police say Police were called to the property in Bucks Hill, Nuneaton, at 3.49pm on Sunday  Bodies were recovered by emergency services and an investigation launched  Fire crews … 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

Two escape death as helicopter crashes into Warwickshire field

Two escape with their lives after helicopter crashes into field next to pub and bursts into flames Emergency crews were called at 12.20pm to reports the aircraft had gone down Pilot and passenger crashed into a filed next to the Mason Arms in Warwickshire Incredibly both managed to get out of the chopper and to … Read more

Police search property in picturesque Warwickshire village for body of murdered businessman

Police are searching a property in a picturesque Warwickshire village for the body of a murdered businessman who disappeared in 2009. Father-of-three Jesse Richards, 40, was killed in a ‘merciless and sustained’ attack in Evesham, Worcestershire, by a gang of armed thugs over a £1 million drugs debt.   The ‘passive family man’ was said to have … 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