http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=coventry The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 19:23:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25912#post-70512 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:04:47 +0000 Mrblacker 70512@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Independent Police Complaints Commission has started an investigation after no-one died during a mass brawl in Coventry city centre.</p> <p>Up to 300 people were involved in a series of running street battles, after a comedy night at a local nightclub.</p> <p>But what's sparked the major IPCC probe, is how West Midlands Police managed not to kill or maim anyone, or how those involved in the fighting failed to stab one another to death.</p> <p>"Quite frankly, we're confused." Andrew Gibbs, the Deputy IPCC commissioner for the Midlands told reporters. "There at least 50 officers policing the fight, including Dog Units and the West Midlands Police helicopter and somehow, the officers were restrained enough not to have pushed anyone over, leading to their death."</p> <p>The investigation comes after the IPCC confirmed it will look into claims that Warwickshire Police failed to close the Shipston Wool Fayre on Bank Holiday Monday, despite several complaints that is was 'shit-dull'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19761#post-53221 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:55:16 +0000 Mrblacker 53221@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Motorists in Coventry, where every black cab in the Uk is made, say they're backing a walkout by the city's Hackney carriage drivers.</p> <p>The cabbies downed flags on Friday night and are pledging to stay 'off meter' until a dispute over spaces in ranks in the city is resolved.</p> <p>"There are just too many licences in the city and not enough spaces for us all to queue up for fares." a spokesman for the city's Taxi Association said. "Our members are being forced to park on double yellow lines, just so they can get out of their vehicles and feign indifference at the prospect of getting paid to drive someone around. It's a disgrace."</p> <p>Their move is being supported by regular drivers in the city.</p> <p>Dave Manning, who was in the city with his children for a shopping trip, told reporters "It's much easier to get around without having to follow a black cab doing 25 miles an hour. And you don't get stuck in a jam when they try and turn their cabs around in the middle of the street at the busiest time of the day."</p> <p>"To be honest, driving around without the threat of a black cab cutting you up at a moments notice is wonderful. So more power to their elbow."</p> <p>The Coventry Taxi Association say they'll continue their protest until the City Council increases the number of rank spaces or their diesel runs out.</p> <p>In a statement, Coventry City Council said it was aware of the dispute, but that 'it's nothing to do with me mate. Besides, I blame the buses, coming into town, parking in their spots." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19086#post-51575 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:43:24 +0000 Mrblacker 51575@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Green campaigners say the melting of a sheet of ice covering a water feature in the Midlands city centre, is undeniable evidence of climate change.</p> <p>The sheet - on the Waterwindow in Coventry - has been a feature of the city since the December Ice Age, and is starting to melt as temperatures rise.</p> <p>"This is definitive evidence that the world is getting warmer and something needs to be done about it before this valuable natural resourse disappears for ever." Jacinta Horrigan told anyone who'd listen.</p> <p>"This ice formed naturally in a defined period of cooling and now the authorities are letting is melt without intervening to protect what's left. It's diabolical."</p> <p>"They've also been doing their best to break it up, by getting a man to smash the ice on a regular basis. This was done on the pretext of 'health and safety' but we know it's just wilful destruction and a further demonstration of how those in power are raping the planet."</p> <p>However, a spokesman for Coventry City Council said the ice was a serious threat as people had been seen trying to stand on it and that Ms Horrigan only became interested in it when her niece told her about the ice sheet and had caught pneumonia by trying to skate on it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8464#post-22758 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:10 +0000 antharrison 22758@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How about a show for a lazy pontiff; "Pope Idle" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8464#post-22756 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:17:50 +0000 MrKev 22756@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The financially troubled UK visit of Pope Benedict 15th was given a lift yesterday, after ITV said they had been in negotiations to commission a new show - 'Cardinal Idol' - to help raise the required funds.</p> <p>In the show, pious catholics are invited to perform a series of tasks in front of a live studio audience and a panel of judges, made up of current members of the Vatican hierarchy. With the details still being finalised, the tasks which have been confirmed include:</p> <p>Amateur Exorcism - where a spitting, foul mouthed young girl will be led onto the stage to have the contestants 'draw out her demons'.</p> <p>Confessional Live - where they will take live confessions from members of the audience and have to come up with ambiguous, non-commital words of comfort about god's forgiveness.</p> <p>Vatican Redeployment - here contestants will be asked to find new jobs, with the minimum of fuss, for disgraced clergymen facing allegations of abuse.</p> <p>The winning contestant will receive a 1 year contract worth more than £50,000 to walk about in a red dress and nod whenever the Pope speaks, in Rome's Vatican City.</p> <p>Pope Benedict released the following statement through his press office: "While I am grateful for the help offered by ITV in funding this visit and am excited by the concept of 'Cardinal Idol', I really had thought it was a wind up when my head of communications said they were 'sending me to Coventry'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7106#post-19041 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:17:09 +0000 Mrblacker 19041@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The first stage in the creation of the next English saint has been moved at the request on the Vatican.</p> <p>It had been planned to hold an open air Mass to celebrate the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman at Coventry Airport in the West Midlands.</p> <p>But in a move designed to appease those opposed to the Holy Father's visit, the venue has been switched to Birmingham's Cofton Park.</p> <p>"We've taken this decision because we're fully aware of how the city of Coventry feels about the Germans." Monsignor David Reilly explained.</p> <p>"The visit to beatify Cardinal Newman was always going to be controversial because of our stance on homosexuality, child abuse and contraception. Add to this Pope Benedict XVI's notorious past, we felt it was perhaps best to avoid the chance of his Holiness bombing in Coventry." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14971 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:33:51 +0000 Mrblacker 14971@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The sunny West Midlands of the UK </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14953 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:55:35 +0000 Ostsee 14953@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Remind me, where is Coventry? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14949 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:48:09 +0000 Mrblacker 14949@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Strange as it may seem - there are 2 in Coventry</p> <p>Coventry University and the University of Warwick </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14944 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:27:47 +0000 Griffin 14944@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is there a University of Coventry? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14927 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:14:23 +0000 Mrblacker 14927@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>.410 loaded with buckshot would be more effective </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14923 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:59:59 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14923@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Super Soaker filled with Vimto? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14917 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:54:55 +0000 Mrblacker 14917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The thing is - if they live in Cov - that is how they WOULD behave in their parents' street!</p> <p>Only University of Warwick students behave differently, because although the Uni's in Coventry - the students live in Royal Leamington Spa.</p> <p>And I was never young - I was born aged 35</p> <p>Giving birth was incredibly painful for my mum </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14913 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:41:32 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Even better, knock them up early the next morning (as in banging on their door, not, erm, banging per se) and then deliver the "Would you behave like this in your parents' street?" speech. Make sure you look sorely disappointed and pull the 'it pains me to say this' expression.</p> <p>Do not - I repeat, DO NOT - use the 'I was young once' line. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14908 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:31:47 +0000 Mrblacker 14908@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks</p> <p>send valium now... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14904 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:29:23 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14904@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I feel your pain ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5473#post-14902 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:26:09 +0000 Mrblacker 14902@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Five female students are under observation in hospital tonight, after they apparently failed to screech like harpies on their walk home.</p> <p>The un-named women are being studied by psychologists at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. They'd spent the night drinking vodka and Red Bull at 54, Coventry University's Union bar and left just before 11.</p> <p>"They were knocking the booze back with no problem." barman Dave Middleton told reporters "They left just before we closed and we only got involved when the Police contacted us. Apparently their behaviour was creating a problem on their route home."</p> <p>Inspector Tracey McDonald confirmed the group had been detained. "We got involved when a concerned resident notified us that contrary to their usual behaviour, this group were making their way home without screaming at the top of their voices, yelling drunkenly into their mobile phones and shouting sexually explict remarks at groups of random men."</p> <p>A Tactical Support Unit from the city's Little Park Street station was dispatched to deal with the group, who're being held in isolation at the city's hospital.</p> <p>A spokesman for the NHS Trust said the women, all aged between 19 and 22, were under observation while experts from the City Council searched their Hillfields home for possible environmental factors that could explain their behaviour. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5087#post-14009 Tue, 25 May 2010 20:06:03 +0000 Mrblacker 14009@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A 38 year old from Coventry has claimed his wife's obsession with a televison show has led to the breakdown in their 13 year marriage.</p> <p>Andy Grissom from Stoke says the E4 programme Glee has become the number one interest in his wife Michelle's life and she's now paying no attention to him or their 2 children.</p> <p>"It's atrocious" he told reporters. "She sits at home all day watching the show on the TV, either live or on Sky Digital, then spends hours discussing the latest 'funny quote' from Sue Sylvester with her new friends on the internet."</p> <p>"And while she's doing that, I'm holding down a job as a bus driver and looking after our two boys."</p> <p>His solicitor Andrea Durden says his assertion that a television show has led to the the breakdown of her client's relationship is unusual, but she's confident of a win in the case.</p> <p>"Everything in the marital home has been paid for by my client and we think that as Mrs Grissom has contributed nothing but 2 extra mouths to the relationship, it's only fair that my client wins the majority of their shared property, including the 48" plasma TV and Sky box."</p> <p>Mrs Grissom was unavailable to comment tonight, but told friends on a Glee message forum that she feels worse 'than Sue did after the Throwdown episode'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=973#post-2523 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:18:39 +0000 malgor 2523@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I checked and, sorry, no, it's not a new definition of irony. But it is a new <em>example</em> of irony. So, nearly right. It was a good gag the councillor came up with about that kid needing new lenses. He probably told him to aim for your groin. I hope your spectacles didn't jab you in the bridge of the nose and then fall off and smash on the pavement. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=973#post-2518 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:53:36 +0000 rikkor 2518@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The definition of irony is in your hand. Yours in Christ, Russell J. McVinney, Bishop of Providence. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=973#post-2501 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:16:53 +0000 ramblesid 2501@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I hope that's not your real name, if you're going to report on the race riots the BBC seem to be expecting this summer. They'll think you're taking the piss. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=973#post-2500 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:15:01 +0000 sauce 2500@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>At least the football was intermediate between boots n head.<br /> (Seriously, sounds scary and glad you live to tell the tale)<br /> Hope tomorrow is jolly fun. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=973#post-2481 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:32:53 +0000 Mrblacker 2481@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm off to Kent in the morning for a course where the BBC will teach me how to report on a riot.</p> <p>Only this afternoon, live on air, I was reporting from a rundown area of Coventry and the glorious local scum decided it'd be fun to kick a football at my head while their local councillor was telling me how the kids in the area just need more focus in their lives. </p>