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A man in a navy blue hat and blue windbreaker with hi-vis strips stands in front of a blue narrowboat.

'My canal-blocking narrowboat was stripped'

The owner of a sunken narrowboat says it's been looted of everything on board since its recovery.

Coventry & Warwickshire

An outside view of Warwick Crown Court, a modern white building with a royal crest and sign reading Warwickshire Justice Centre on the front. A union flag is flying in front of the building.

Woman jailed for using fake mum to claim thousands

Agnieszka Macugowska falsely claimed more than £17,000 after her mother died.

Coventry & Warwickshire

Natasha Johnson-Mall, wearing a pink jumper next to Karlo Bogdan, wearing a blue Christmas jumper

E-bike fire deaths ruled accidental by coroner

The fire at Karlo Bogdan and Natasha Johnson-Mall's home "rapidly escalated into an intense blaze".

Coventry & Warwickshire

Generic image of a pothole. It is prominent on the photo, with the road around it filling the rest of the image.

Extra £8.6m provided to fill thousands of potholes

The additional money, which represents a rise of 35%, could fill 88,000 potholes.

A sketch of what the area could look like. There is a brown path with green spaces around it, as well as green trees. The path leads to several white and glass houses, which are two storeys high. There is a sketch of a person walking on the path.

Plans submitted for notorious care home site

Plans include building family homes on the site, or a care home for the elderly.

Coventry & Warwickshire

A uniformed male police officer in a hi-viz yellow jacket, holding his cap under one arm, stands next to the commissioner, with greying hair and wearing a dark blue suit and tie. They are in front of a fleet of speed enforcement vans with police livery and speed awareness messaging.

Force to double its fleet of speed camera vans

Police and crime commissioner Simon Foster says he has committed funding for four new camera vans.

A close up of Richard Walker, lying in a hospital bed in a black T-shirt

Patient 'shattered' by unnecessary chemotherapy

Richard Walker was treated for 22 months, more than a year longer than recommended by the NHS.

A composite image showing for men posing for police mugshots.

Car thieves offered to sell motors back to victims

The five men targeted luxury cars and motorbikes in a series of burglaries and car-jackings.

Coventry & Warwickshire

A man in a hat and pea coat stands by a canal in front of a sunken narrowboat with his hands in his pockets.

Boat owners 'stuck' after narrowboat sinks

Frustrated boat owners have resorted to trying to move the sunken vessel themselves.

Coventry & Warwickshire