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Next year the 2012 Olympic Games are coming to the UK. In preparation, cities across the country are preparing for the arrival of hundreds of athletes and thousands of supporters by getting dug up. New venues are being built, existing ones are being revamped and major infrastructure routes to, from and throug… Read more »
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Coventry's council has very recently had a blue line painted on the pavement between a point in the city centre and the train station, just outside our city's famous ring road. Since the train station is virtually next door to my office building (at least until I change jobs later this month), and I walk thro… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Upon walking into a bar in the centre of Coventry the other night I was told, in no uncertain terms, "you'd better be English". This was just moments after walking through the entrance while in the process of trying to locate the friends I'd gone there to meet. Thankfully, they were easy to spot and some dist… Read more »
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It had been ten years since I'd been on stage. I'd done a couple of smaller things in that time where I hadn't been the centre of attention, but this was different. I was an adult this time. The audience wasn't just a bunch of school friends (well… most of it wasn't!). I had friends from work there. I had fam… Read more »
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I recently had the pleasure of attending the Northern Broadsides production of William Shakespeare's Othello when the tour visited Coventry's own Belgrade Theatre. It was a genuine treat to see. In a break from his more traditional roles, Lenny Henry played the title role and gave a superb performance, but I… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Having noticed that Coventry's city centre hadn't had many holes in it for a while, the council recently decided to dig most of it up. The result is that navigating the city by any other means than on foot has become a bit of a challenge. Whole roads have effectively been rendered closed by the destruction of… Read more »