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"Preedy". Lucky you! I had to trek to the all the way to Preedy's from Hearsall Lane as it was the only newsagents open in the area at that time.

Believe me they do. There have even been allegations that they lose money on the cheaper lines they sell in order to pull in shoppers. Duty makes up only a small percentage of the cost of beer in pubs. It simply costs a lot more money per customer to run a pub than it does a supermarket.

At one time a pub or working men's club was the only place a member of the public could drink, and then only between certain hours. Nowadays almost everywhere has a licence to sell alcohol so no need to visit a pub or working men's club any more. The abolition of opening hours and smoking in...

It was where there is now a block of flats next to Aldi.

No NIck, the Radford Hotel was in Radford Road and the Nugget is in Coundon Green.

That was due to a service tunnel which connects Palmer Lane to the lower basement of Owen Owen.

Absolute tosh I thought?

The shop sold shotguns and the burglar stole one of them. They used to be on display in the window in those days. Up until 1969 anyone over 13 could buy one without a licence.

Coventry to lead until the last minute of the game, then throw it all away, again.

It was originally performed with swords rather than sticks or handkerchiefs and there weren't too many civilians with swords at the time. Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia, there is no proof of any connection between Moorish dancing and Morris dancing.

They miss the point that the Morris is supposed to be a 'sissy dance', originally performed by off-duty soldiers to amuse themselves.

My point was the owners of the Technical College abandoned plans to build shops and a restaurant on the ground floor and are now converting it to office space instead. Other shops in the area have not done well and plans to convert the former pub opposite to a restaurant have floundered.

It will flop just as the plan to build shops in the nearby former technical college flopped.

Whichever Brummies were offended by black faces don't ever want to visit Holland at Christmas! By the way, a lot of Dutch people find this offensive too even though it's a centuries-old tradition.

Tributes paid to Coventry police officer on 40th anniversary of his murder

And I hate crime dramas which is probably why I love Sherlock! It's a total mind-fuck, that's the whole point of it.