The cut-off for entries for the four cash prize competitions in our December / January issue is noon on Monday 4 January. If you still intend to enter any of them: Wordsearch, Anagrams, Crossword or Quiz of the Year, please do so in good time. At this stage an email to newsdesk@echonews.org.uk is the quickest, …
Category: ECHO
Double Issue
The next edition of ECHO will be our once a year double issue covering December AND January. Please contact us before the deadline date, Monday 16 November, with anything to be included for either month: articles, letters, adverts and events for the Diary (much reduced in number, sadly).
ECHO AVAILABILITY
A reminder that copies of ECHO are available from most of its regular outlets but there are still some which are closed. The ‘closed’ list includes the churches, Earlsdon Library, Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind and Hearsall Golf Club. The ‘open’ list is: Broomfield News Butts News Earlsdon St P.O. Hearsall News, Hearsall Lane …
APPEAL FROM ECHO
ECHO’s regular readers will know that we always welcome additional material from local people and organisations. That’s even more important in the current situation. We remain hopeful that we can keep publishing monthly issues but with most of the regular community activity that we report on postponed or cancelled, the more contributions we get from …
April issue out now
The April issue of ECHO in now on sale but a few of our usual outlets are currently closed. It is available from these shops: Broomfield News Butts News Co-op, Allesley Old Road Co-op, Earlsdon Street Costcutter, Sovereign Road Earlsdon Park Village (for residents only) Hearsall News, Hearsall Lane Popping Cork Post Office, Earlsdon Street …
APRIL ISSUE OF ECHO
With an extra special effort we have managed to complete the April issue of ECHO and it is now ready to be printed. It should be on sale by the end of the week. We cannot rule out the possibility that our printing and distribution may yet be interrupted but we hope we can carry …
Graham Partridge
It is with great sadness that we have to inform the community of the death on Sunday 12th January of Graham Partridge, a founding member of the ECHO team and for 40 years its Chairman and public face. In due course we will pay a full tribute to Graham, both in the pages of ECHO …
Rob Bills
Since the September issue of ECHO was printed, we have been shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Rob Bills, owner of CV Nutrition in Albany Road. The business is featured, and Rob is quoted, on page 7 of this issue. Rob died in a road traffic accident on Saturday 24 August …
Can you Help with ECHO Advertising?
ECHO needs a volunteer to assist in managing our advertisers list. No specific skills are needed – just the willingness to spend a little time each month answering and sending emails, checking with advertisers on their requirements for repeat or new adverts, following up interest from potential new advertisers, and passing on requests to the …
Friends of the War Memorial Park
The Friends of the War Memorial Park are in the process of organising events leading up to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Park in July 2021, coinciding with the City of Culture year, and hope to have monthly events, starting in July 2020 and leading up to a really big event in …