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Rugby band Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours appearing on cult TV show Ready, Steady, Go!

Former Advertiser reporter finds cuttings from his time at the paper - and the m...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers the heroes of Rugby, who gave everything so...
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Warwickshire's centuries-old association with the supernatural - here are a few ...
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Rugby's centuries-old association with the supernatural - here are a few of our ...
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How the shooting of Reg Calvert ended Rugby's spell in the 1960s rock and roll s...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers Rugby's floods of yesteryear - and the skat...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers Gert and Daisy, two proud Rugby porkers who...
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'We don’t really want that sort of thing at the Rugby Advertiser' - when beards ...
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Rugby rocker (and former Lawrence Sheriff pupil) is still rockin'
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Evenin' all... Former Advertiser reporter remembers Rugby's police in the 1960s
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers Ruby McBean and her Churchover palace of de...
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Former Advertiser reporter recalls of the magic of a Sunday in 1950s Rugby
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers finding a rifle on the banks of the River S...
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How former a former Advertiser reporter's namesake, and distant relative, was bu...
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Paradise lost? - How urban sprawl has destroyed much of Rugby's beautiful countr...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers the days before 'helicopter parenting' - wh...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers an old Rugby end of term tradition - and th...
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Former Advertiser reporter investigates the legend of the lost township on Rugby...
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Steam trains exhaling cotton wool and a huge spaceship - the vivid memories of t...
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Former Advertiser reporter visits a Rugby cemetery to find sister who died in 19...
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When Rugby's 'Dirty Duck' Black Swan pub was a haunt for dedicated followers of ...
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Rugby's links to the Russian Revolution - including a BTH worker and Lenin's vi...
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Former Advertiser reporter pays tribute to Joe Towers, a true son of the soil
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Remembering Bill, the Lawrence Sheriff groundsman who fought in the trenches and...
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'The era of horses and carts would soon give way' - how aviation history was mad...
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The day a Rugbeian found a giant snake curled up in their home - and how it rela...
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Ale, cigarettes, a Triumph 650 and leaving school at 16 - life for Advertiser re...
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The eerily fascinating story behind 'One-armed Boughton', the ghost said to haun...
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Former Advertiser reporter investigates legend of Butler's Leap, proposing a new...
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Remembering 'Uncle George' - the Churchover farm labourer with an extraordinary ...
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The time Rugby became a war zone - and how our town's Cromwellian sympathies mig...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers the legendary Disci shop - and the time Rod...
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Former Advertiser reporter remembers award-winning Rugby actor best known for hi...
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