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The BBC report that Coventry City are set to buy the council owned Car Park C land next to the Coventry Building Society Arena for £1.6m. The purchase has not been completed: it goes to a Coventry City Council cabinet meeting next Tuesday, 13 October, and is expected to be signed off there. The money is paid over ten years and none of it goes to the council. It goes to the club's charity, Sky Blues in the Community, which will be contractually obliged to spend around £160,000 a year on sport ...
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