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BBC News
14-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'We have to be robust'
Coventry City have to brush off any setbacks in their pursuit of a Championship play-off place, according to head coach Frank Sky Blues have pushed themselves into sixth position in the table after a fine run but their five-game winning streak came to an end in a 2-0 loss at Derby on Tuesday."It happens in football, we've been on an amazing run and it's important we realise what we've been doing," Lampard told BBC CWR."I've been in this situation, specifically in the Championship, played a lot of years and managed in the Premier League, the Champions League - you take hits along the way and being robust in these moments is par for the course."Coventry were just one point above the relegation zone when the former Chelsea boss took over in November and he admits their progress has surprised even him."I'd have settled to be in the top 12 when I came in," added Lampard, whose side face fourth-placed Sunderland on Saturday (15:00 GMT)."That's where we were looking so to get to where we are is a great thing and we have to reset a little with our mindset and thought process."Will we stay in the play-offs all the way to the end? Who knows, maybe not, but can we keep fighting to get in there? For sure."
BBC News
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Coventry concert celebrates man's 50 years of composing music
A concert will celebrate a Coventry music teacher's 50 years of composing in the Ramskill from Finham has arranged and composed music for Songs of Praise, Aled Jones, and Russell Watson, as well as lots of local music includes approximately 200-300 arrangements for Songs of Praise."The great thing about writing for Songs of Praise you always know professional instrumentalists are going to play the parts you've written, and will play them perfectly, so the satisfaction in that is great," Mr Ramskill said. Mr Ramskill moved to Coventry from Leeds in 1975, when he got a job at the Coventry School of Music, which eventually became a centre for performing arts before joining Coventry composer built up his body of work through his teaching."Part of it is because I had to write music for the students sometimes," he told BBC CWR."You have a group of instruments, well there's no music actually been written for that particular group so you set about writing or arranging something."In Coventry in the 70s and 80s and early 90s there were lots of youth orchestras and bands and choirs and they were always looking for new music, so I was always happy to supply and develop my style based on that."He joked: "I must apologise to my wife and family for spending so long in the study composing." 'It was a big deal' It was a surprising turn of events that led to him composing for Songs of Ramskill had been asked to write an arrangement of The Teddy Bear's Picnic for the Coventry Youth Orchestra in 1989, by conductor Brian Chappell."He said I want you to go to town and make it a big deal," Mr Ramskill said."It was an elaborate arrangement with references to all kinds of different music. Wham got in there somehow. So it was a big deal."Songs of Praise conductor Paul Leddington Wright was in the audience at one of the performances, as his two daughters played in the orchestra, and asked Mr Ramskill if he wanted to compose for the on why Songs of Praise kept asking him to compose more arrangements, Mr Ramskill said: "Because I didn't have a church background I think they liked that I had a slightly novel approach to arranging hymns."The concert will take place at Drapers' Hall on 23 March at 14:00 GMT. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
