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Grandmother Sheila Hinds had a big secret to keep over Christmas after finding out she was on the New Year’s Honours List. Sheila, 66, said the news that she was being awarded an MBE made her Christmas, even though she was not allowed to tell anyone.

Cheryl Barnacle, from Stockingford Nuneaton has been awarded the title of ‘Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year 2011’ by Cancer Research UK. Since losing her husband Clive to the disease in 2007 she has put her energies into raising thousands of pounds towards helping prevent others from going through the same pain.

Stockingford Infant School is pleased to have been honoured with the Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award. The Cross Street School is among only a few in the country to receive the award, which has been given to recognise the work they do providing opportunities for children and their families.

A group of construction workers helping to renovate the RNIB Pears Centre, formerly the RNIB Rushton School and Children’s Home near Bedworth, decided to raise funds for the organisation by throwing themselves out of a plane. They thought that doing a tandem skydive would be a great way to raise some much needed money for the school. The daring group was made up of Shepherd Construction’s David Critchlow, Kerri Harris, Andy Astley, Steve Green, Gavin Green, Marc Williams, Craig Sharples, …

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Nuneaton grandmother Cheryl Hartshorn, along with a group of other cyclists, has completed a mammoth 320-mile bike ride from Nuneaton to Normandy. Her aim was to honour those who died in the D-Day Landings, the largest invasion in history, in June 1944.