Parks and Green Spaces Minister Marcus Jones MP chose Rugby’s award winning parks to announce that the Government will extend the Green Flag Award scheme for the next five years.

Rugby boasts not one but five Green Flag winning green spaces - which include Centenary Park, Gladstone Green Pocket Park, Millennium Green Pocket Park and Caldecott Park - many of which were neglected sites that have been transformed by the hard work of the community and the local council.

For 20 years, the Green Flag Awards have been recognising the best of outdoors spaces in the UK, allowing visitors to easily find quality parks and other green spaces to enjoy and setting standards for park managers across the country.

Photo: Rugby Borough Council Leader Cllr. Micheal Stokes with Marcus Jones MP and Rugbys Mark Pawsey MP.