Volunteers Urgently Needed

The Earlsdon festival is urgently looking for extra volunteers to help supervise road closures on the day (Monday 1st May)
Can you and possibly a friend or family member, kindly spare 2 hours on the day to help a community event?
The role includes supervising a barrier, alongside a friend, family member or other volunteer for a period of 2 hours.
You will have a high vis and a radio to keep in touch with the organisers if you have any questions. You will help visitors on thier way to the event and help direct traffic to where they can park without getting stuck. The time flies by, then you can head down to the event for a cuppa, and go off and enjoy the day knowing you’ve been a valuable part of making it happen.
Please go to the link below to complete the form below to register your details if you can help or send an email to:
earlsdonfest@gmail.com if you have any questions before making the decision.
The event cannot happen without the festival’s amazing volunteers!

Rogue Trader Operating in Earlsdon

We have received a report of an elderly resident being persuaded by “a forceful man who would not take no for an answer”, to have her paved yard cleaned. He wanted £400 for what turned out to be one and a half hours’ work, using her hot water and leaving a mess on her walls.

He gave her a false card with phone numbers on which do not exist. He drove a white vehicle, is about 35-40 years old and was thought to have a ‘hint of’ an Irish accent, but told his victim he was Scottish. He is about 5′ 8″, slim build and has light brown hair.

He also approached neighbours of the first victim and told one his hedge was overhanging and needed cutting and offered to clean the patio of another for £300. After the offer was declined the drive was later found to have been sprayed with squiggles of white paint.

If you see this man operating in the area please report his presence to the police on 101. Please warn your friends and neighbours to be on their guard, keep an eye out and if safe to do so copy his registration number.

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OVERNIGHT ROAD CLOSURE – SUNDAY 2 APRIL

Butts Road will be closed in both directions between Windsor Street and the Ring Road junction 7 as part of the long running roadworks.
Albany Road will be closed between Butts Road and Brunswick Road.
The closure will be from 8pm on Sunday until 6am on Monday 3 April.
There will be signed diversions and access to homes and businesses will be maintained.
Questions IN ADVANCE OF THE CLOSURE should be referred by email to AQPenquiries@balfourbeaty.com or by phoning 07715 615163.
For questions WHILE THE CLOSURE IS IN PROGRESS, please call 07707 268605.

Wine and Crime

Next Saturday the “Wine and Crime” evening at Earlsdon Library features local author Jason Wilson, pictured below, discussing the crimes of his father (Earlsdon local Tony Spencer) with the True Crime Investigators UK. There will be input from ex-police officers and criminal law experts. The event takes place on Saturday 25 March at 7pm – tickets cost £10 and are available from the library.

Springboard Festival approaches

It is now only a couple of weeks to the opening of the Springboard Festival, one of the most exciting events we have ever held at the Criterion Theatre.

More than 30 performances, involving over 60 performers, actors and artists will be presented on our stage over 8 evenings from 25th March to the 1st April.

There is poetry, spoken word, music, multi-media performance, new writing and drama of many genres, including four in-house Criterion plays. Each evening’s offer is a different combination of at least three different performances, so there is something to appeal to every taste. There are multiple runs of selected shows, so you don’t have to miss anything!

The full programme is up on the theatre’s website now.

In addition, all week there will be art exhibitions in the bar and foyer; the Festival poetry workshop The Word from the Floor will be producing material; and we have a number of artists-in-residence documenting and responding to the Festival, including a poet and a sketch artist.

The festival brings together amateur, community and professional artists from Coventry and Warwick into the same creative space. We are looking forward to some fantastic collaborations unfolding live on stage, conversations that lead to future work and continued development of our theatre.

Please come and share in this exciting experience. We have a limited number of season tickets left at only £40, which allow you entry to any performance across the whole festival. Please note that these will only be on sale until 18 March. Individual tickets can also be bought for each evening at the usual prices.

The Criterion Theatre

SPON END NIGHTTIME CLOSURES

The latest phase of work on the Spon End road widening project will involve significant evening / overnight road closures between 20 and 24 February.

Contractors Balfour Beaty have informed local residents that Spon End / Butts Road will be closed on the city-bound side between the junctions with Hearsall Lane and Windsor Street between the times of 7pm and 6am on 5 nights, Monday 20 – Friday 24 February inclusive.

The notice states “Signed diversion routes will be in place and access to business and homes will be maintained at all times”, although it is difficult to see how that will be possible except on foot.

Balfour Beaty also say they will guarantee minimum noise, and noisy works outside the residential properties between the Railway Bar and Grill and Upper Spon Street will finish no later than 11pm.

Queries can be addressed to Onika Morgan by phone on 07715 615163 or email: AQPenquiries@balfourbeaty.com or on the nights work is actually taking place call Joshua Blair on 07756 503386.