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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Join BBC CWR for Sky Blues fans' forum - for free!
Join Lorna Bailey for BBC CWR's 'Fans' Forum Live' with special guests matchday announcer 'JD' and Coventry City fan John Dawkins. The best part? It's completely free! Just drop an email to cwrsport@ asking to join the ballot and they will notify you by Friday, 1 August if you've won yourself a place. The event will be held at BBC CWR's Open Centre in Priory Place on Monday, 4 August at 18:00 BST. Can't attend? You can listen live via BBC Radio CWR or catch up on BBC Sounds shortly after broadcast.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Join BBC CWR for Sky Blues fans' forum - for free!
Join Lorna Bailey for BBC CWR's 'Fans' Forum Live' with special guests matchday announcer 'JD' and Coventry City fan John best part? It's completely free! Just drop an email to cwrsport@ asking to join the ballot and they will notify you by Friday, 1 August if you've won yourself a event will be held at BBC CWR's Open Centre in Priory Place on Monday, 4 August at 18:00 attend? You can listen live via BBC Radio CWR or catch up on BBC Sounds shortly after broadcast.
BBC News
25-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Rumour Bilston Outdoor Market site is for sale 'is nonsense'
Rumours the former site of an outdoor market site has been sold "are complete nonsense", a council has news comes after Bilston Market traders were moved to another area of town last year to make way for the £5.2m rebuilding of the market on the site by City of Wolverhampton have been raised because traders say there has been no visible progress made since January with one, John Dawkins, saying there were rumours a supermarket chain and a property developer were set to buy the Bhupinder Gakhal, council portfolio holder for resident services, said there had been no activity since March because a detailed design and delivery plan was being drawn up. Mr Dawkins has asked whether "it is still on course to be completed in October", but Gakhal has not provided confirmation the market would be ready to reopen that month. "The council's £5.2m investment in Bilston Outdoor Market is a major redevelopment programme that will see huge improvements for both traders and visitors," said Gakhal."Rumours of the site being sold are complete nonsense – and I wrote to every single trader this week to tell them so." The rebuild project has been financed through the government's Towns Fund said that "enabling works, site and ground surveys" were completed in March" and survey results were being used to create design and delivery plans. "The final timetable and programme of works are due shortly from the contractor and we have told traders they will be the first to know when we have that information," he said. 'No work for months' Traders became concerned when site notices and construction equipment was taken the outdoor markets was knocked down, "the last time there was movement was back in January", Mr Dawkins said."We've approached market officers, they say everything's on track but nothing's happening," he explained. "It's supposed to be complete in October but there hasn't been any work for months."He and other traders said they wanted reassurance about the market's Dawkins added that people wanted to know when and if traders were going to be moved back and "why nothing has happened on the site". This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Daily Mail
26-04-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Fire breaks out at Championship stadium as club provide update ahead of huge Saturday lunchtime clash
A Championship club 's stadium was on fire on Friday evening, less than 24 hours before they were scheduled to play at 12:30pm today. Firefighters were rushed to the scene as black smoke and flames emerged from the outside of the stadium, which is placed in the heart of a local neighbourhood. A full road closure was implemented as it took around two hours for the flames to be extinguished and for the incident to be cleared. Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service were notified of the emergency at 8:08pm on Friday, prompting them to send crews from Luton, Stopsley, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard stations all responding. The scenes occurred at Kenilworth Road, home to Luton Town, where the Hatters will host Coventry City at lunchtime on Saturday. Luton explained that the incident was caused by a small appliance that had caught fire in the stadium's laundry room. Luton Town ground apparently currently on fire. Video sent via a Luton fan #PUSB — John Dawkins (@dawkinscov1980) April 25, 2025 Luton come into today's clash knee-deep in a fight for Championship survival, just a year after their relegation from the Premier League. Matt Bloomfield's side sit 22nd in the table only behind Derby in the last safe spot on goal difference. Meanwhile, their relegation rivals are close behind, with Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle trailing by just three points a piece. With two game left to go this season, Luton are looking to avoid becoming the first team since Sunderland in 2017-18 to be relegated from the English top-flight then finish last in the Championship the following season. Despite the fire scare, Luton released a statement at 10:39pm, confirming their would be no 'disruption' to their clash with Coventry. It read: 'We would like to advise supporters that following reports of an incident at Kenilworth Road this evening, there is no disruption to tomorrow's fixture with Coventry City taking place. 'Smoke was found to be coming from a small appliance that had caught fire in the stadium's laundry room, which was contained within that area and has been dealt with swiftly to prevent any substantial damage. 'We would like to offer a huge thank you to Beds Fire & Rescue for their quick intervention, along with club partners and staff who are also on site to help resolve the issue and ensure that everything is now safe.' On the opposite end of the table, Coventry will look to bounce back from a 3-1 defeat by Argyle last week to continue their bid to make the playoffs.
