Rugby is a railway town with a school the game is named after, sitting where the West Coast Main Line, the M6 and the M1 all come close together. That location is most of its modern story: a lot of people here work in Birmingham, Coventry or London, and a lot of warehousing has gone up around the edges. Bilton, Hillmorton, Brownsover, Dunchurch, Wolston and Long Lawford make up the rest of the borough.

Rugby Town News reports what the record shows. Rugby Borough Council publishes its planning register, licensing notices, committee papers and spending, and in a borough taking this much development that paperwork is where next year’s arguments are already written down. We read it and report what is in it, with a link to the document on every fact.

Points of entry

• Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
• News: the public record, including planning applications in the town and the villages.
• What’s On: what is happening in Rugby this week.

Every fact links to the document it came from.