School open after fire
A NUNEATON school reopened yesterday after a fire knocked out power from the entire site.
Serious damage was done to Camp Hill Early Years Centre when a blaze tore through the building on Monday evening.
Although the fire did not spread to Camp Hill Primary School and Nursery, which is based on the same site, both were affected.
The whole site in Hollystitches Road was left without power after the fire.
Both Camp Hill Primary, the nursery and the Early Years Centre were forced to close on Tuesday and Wednesday. Walls and ceilings were blackened and furniture badly damaged. EXTRA car parking spaces are being made available at Coombe Abbey Country Park this bank holiday weekend.
After nearly 200 motorists were fined for illegally parking on the road during the last spell of warm weather, the neighbouring hotel is opening its overflow car park.
Around 250 extra parking spaces belonging to Coombe Abbey Hotel will be made available on Sunday, May 28, and Monday, May 29, when the weather is set to be warm, but cloudy.
Normal charges will apply for both the country park and hotel site.
Ron Terry, general manager at the hotel, said: “Whether visiting the hotel or park, we hope that opening the overflow car park will mean that we do not see the same issues as we did at Easter.
“The forecast is for beautiful weather this weekend so both the hotel and the park are expecting to see many people come along to the site.
“But we want them to enjoy all of the facilities and not be stuck for parking and that then causing problems for everyone.
“We hope everyone who comes along to the Coombe Abbey site has a wonderful weekend.” In April, 197 motorists being handed fines for parking illegally in Brinklow Road, near the country park’s entrance, after both car parks filled up due to the warm weather.
It was expected that nearly £6,000 would have to be paid out by drivers as each ticket cost £30.
Warwickshire Police were called to the area in Binley after receiving multiple complaints of cars parked on the main road.
The force said the mat- ter was taken very seriously, due to the number of fatal car crashes on the road.
PC Stuart Baker, beat manager of Rugby Rural North Safer Neighbourhood Team, said at the time: “The warm weather meant that visitor numbers were very high and the car parks were soon full. As a result drivers were parking all along Brinklow Rd both towards Brinklow village and in the other direction towards Binley.
“There are parking restrictions along this road, which is very fast and has had a number of serious and fatal collisions. We closed the entrance to prevent further vehicles getting in, and attempted to move on those who were trying to park along the Brinklow Road.”