[Madhatter]

Worst is that the south of the county gets all our rates to promote its tourism and make the towns pretty, while we get next to nothing and very little help.

Best is that the north warwickshire towns have people in them that are hard working and have built up their own tourist trades through dedication and hard work with very little or no help from the county.
Everything here has been done either by the town council with a very limited budget, flowers, cctv, parks, christmas lights or the public, events, including the shrove tuesday ball game in the street, fun day, carnival, scarecrow festival, free market square parties, vehicle show, war weekends, christmas dickens night, plus many other local just out of Atherstone events helped and supported by Atherstone people and companies, baddesley toe down, Shackerstone familly festival, Caldecote steam show.
Tourism has been encouraged initially by getting the town back to its historic roots, which was a process of regeneration started many years ago, adding the floral displays, reusing derelict land and by the starting of Atherstone booktown project. Next project in Atherstone is development of tourism on our canal which was started by the town council with installation of cctv and is being built on by the town council with the adition of a canal side park and will continue with further improvments and events.

What do you people down their do for your town, and what does your local council do for you.