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Hundreds race at Coombe Abbey to beat cancer

By Helen Thomas Pictures Ted Cottrell Hundreds of people - some who had survived cancer and others who had lost loved ones to the disease - came together for a charity run at Coombe Abbey country park yesterday. The event...

Posted by Esh Capelo on October 13, 2008 2:31 PM

Cheylesmore couple plan saucy night for a good cause

By Jenny Waddington A COVENTRY couple raised money for people and families living with cancer by organising a saucy night at private club. Steve Eaton and his wife Lindsey from Kent Road, in Cheylesmore, took their business Flesh Promotions to...

Posted by Esh Capelo on October 9, 2008 2:12 PM

Stuart Kettell feels the pain of charity challenge bike ride

By Cara Simpson A PENNY-farthing cyclist from Coventry has crossed into Scotland on an epic journey from John O'Groats to Lands End. After 10 days cycling a gruelling course for charity Stuart Kettell, of Binley, has passed the half-way point...

Posted by Esh Capelo on October 6, 2008 11:10 AM

Memorial service for war veteran Gordon Spiers of Cheylesmore

By Barbara Goulden RETIRED Coventry printer and ex-Royal Navy sailor Gordon Spiers has died at the age of 84. Mr Spiers, who lived in William Bristow Road, Cheylesmore, had been confined to a wheelchair for the last ten years of...

Posted by Esh Capelo on September 25, 2008 10:23 AM

LIAM HARKER NIGHT

A SPECIAL charity night is being held for Liam Harker. the teenage Reds fan who died from cancer. Loads of coveted sports items on sale. Fpr more details read on....

Posted by Luke Traynor on September 2, 2008 4:10 PM

Moving tributes paid to Jaktar "Jack" Singh Dhami

By Barbara Goulden MOVING tributes were paid to the late Jaktar "Jack" Singh Dhami during a series of memorial football matches played in his honour in Coventry's Coundon Hall Park. Mr Dhami, one of the founding members of Coventry Sporting...

Posted by Esh Capelo on August 29, 2008 11:03 AM

Charity event to honour tragic Mark Seddon

By Jenny Waddington A CHARITY football tournament is being staged in Coventry this weekend in memory of a local police officer who died almost a year ago. Scores of friends, colleagues and family members will be putting on their football...

Posted by Esh Capelo on August 29, 2008 10:22 AM

Sceptical at mast report

by Polly Manser and Kathy Miller PARENTS have reacted with scepticism to a report which suggests there is no significant increased likelihood of children in the area developing brain tumours. The report was commissioned in response to concerns by parents...

Posted by Julie Voyce on June 12, 2008 1:23 PM

Close shave for Holbrooks dad

DEVOTED dad John McGowan has sacrificed his shoulder-length locks to help his sick daughter raise money for the people she loves most. The 52-year-old Coventry man agreed to have his head shaved after his daughter was diagnosed with stomach cancer...

Posted by John West on April 21, 2008 11:46 AM

THE 'OTHER' PEOPLE'S CLUB

THEY don't come much sadder than the story of young Kopite Liam Harker. The 17-year-old is presently coming to terms with the fact that he won't be around for much longer. I won't blather on any more, his story is...

Posted by Greg O'Keeffe on April 21, 2008 10:32 AM

Earlsdon's own Fred Astaire and his battle against cancer

FRED Astaire impersonator Ted Rodgers(correct) has a spring in his step after making a full recovery from prostate cancer. The cabaret entertainer has revealed how the Coventry Telegraph played a part in helping to save his life. Two years ago...

Posted by John West on April 18, 2008 2:53 PM

Border Line

The case of mum-of-two Samantha Cousins is deeply worrying. The sufferer of Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, was beng denied a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant, so far as her doctors could understand, because she lived in Wales,...

Posted by Tom Bodden on July 27, 2007 10:23 AM