[Madhatter]

Atherstone-online or atherstone-f0rum ? You joined the latter before you joined here. both Atherstone and nuneaton have turned into more of a blog about for my opinions. Will sees this as a rival forum, I don't, The only rivals I have are truly local forums, not a general Warwickshire forum.

I don't think people in the north of the county even associate with Warwickshire much, there's a north south divide in Warwickshire due to Coventry being taken out of the county and Stratford being a major tourist town that drains the county's resources on stupid idiotic schemes that help neither residents of the town or tourists. This is the reason why I never took up the challenge of a Warwickshire forum, which was suggested over a year before will started this one. It needed someone in the south to do it or it simply wouldn't work. You need to know your area or need people in each area to work with you. This site needs someone in each town ideally. They post stuff about that town, people from other towns comment. Without someone from each town you're just not going to get the posts related to that town. Therfore the next best thing is someone in the middle of the biggest clump of towns.
Take the Hartshill Castle post for example, I know exactly where it is , I spent Saturday taking pictures up at the Hayes. Will can't find it sat maps cos it's unrecognisable to how it is now and he has no local knowledge. I've got the same problem with a site for Rawtenstall I help out with, I have limited local knowledge and all the local sites see it as a rival at get its members to boycott it. It's a shame cos it's not fair on the admin, I think she's about gave up on it.

General consensus seems to be that it was a tornado optrex.