Calls to stop vaccinations at Bedworth venue

A campaign is under way to bring live shows back to Bedworth's Civic Hall.

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council recently decided to extend the venue's status as a vaccination centre until March 2023.

Civic Hall hasn't hosted any shows since it became a test centre towards the start of the pandemic. It is now the borough’s biggest vaccination hub.

An online petition, with more than 500 signatures, says its continued closure as an arts venue is “culturally and socially damaging”.

“The Civic Hall is the heart of the borough and this extension is nonsensical since the current vaccine capacity could easily be covered in a building a quarter of the size,” it adds.