euronews24 (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The discount chain, which is based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, said it was doing everything it could - including freezing external recruitment - to ensure any redundancies were kept to a minimum.A company spokesman also stressed that the possible c
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The discount chain, which is based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, said it was doing everything it could - including freezing external recruitment - to ensure any redundancies were kept to a minimum.A company spokesman also stressed that the possible c
Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Here's something pretty damn cool: Ossington airbase in Nottinghamshire, England. From 1942 to 1946 it was an RAF bomber airfield, and then it reverted to farmland. Just look at the big X on the aerial photograph from Google Maps . Six decades of abandonment, and it's an archaeological landscape! Thanks to Kai for the tipoff. Read the comments on this post...
The ThunderDragon (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Via Tyger , on how people in Nottinghamshire handle the cold war with the next village. The minutes of the Eakring Annual Parish Council meeting made it onto the BBC Radio 4’s comedy show, The News Quiz :: Any Other Business 1. Tree cutting on Back Lane was discussed. The following things arose from this: a) It would be a good idea to suggest to the landowner the planting of some replacement trees....
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Via Tyger , on how people in Nottinghamshire handle the cold war with the next village. The minutes of the Eakring Annual Parish Council meeting made it onto the BBC Radio 4’s comedy show, The News Quiz :: Any Other Business 1. Tree cutting on Back Lane was discussed. The following things arose from this: a) It would be a good idea to suggest to the landowner the planting of some replacement trees....
Archinect (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
In the space of six months, five new arts venues are opening in and around Leicester, Derby and Nottingham - a �90m splurge, largely lottery-funded, that now seems at odds with these frugal times. Yet, while some of the venues follow the contemporary model of creating a "destination" others are more focused on serving the local community and it's needs. Guardian
Jo Beaufoix (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Today Christmas began for la famille Beaufoix as we attended the Fountaindale Christmas Fayre. Fountaindale is a Specialist SEN school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and my sister-in-law, Helen, works there. It provides education for pupils aged 3 to 19 who have severe learning difficulties, disabilities and multiple needs. It’s always a very humbling experience as [...]
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
An amateur production of Polly Teale's Brontë opens today, November 21, in Retford, Nottinghamshire, UK: Brontë By Polly Teale 21st - 29th November 2008, 7.30pm Retford Little Theatre Wharf Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire Isolated on the Yorkshire Moors, how could three Victorian spinsters have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time? It is 1845. Branwell returns home in...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are unlikely to have an elected mayor after poor response to a public consultation.
tygerland.net (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
I used to live just outside the sleepy village of Eakring in Nottinghamshire. Indeed I used to play pool in its tiny Pub. So imagine my delight when the minutes of the Earking Annual Parish Council meeting made it onto the BBC Radio 4’s comedy show, The News Quiz :: Any Other Business 1. [...] ShareThis
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
(According to the UK Polling Report seat guide the Nottinghamshire seat of Broxtowe is Tory Target number 42 and requires a swing of just 2.35%. Yet can Nick, who became the first MP poster prepared to contribute here under his own name four years ago, manage to hold on? In one sense he is honoured [...]
TEAMtalk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Derby boss Paul Jewell criticised the decision to appoint referee Stuart Attwell for their clash with East Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest.
footy247 (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Nottingham Forest striker Rob Earnshaw says he does not mind that Derby County fans will get on his back when he returns to his old club for Sunday's East Midlands derby - the first for three seasons.
Travelling Punk (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
This week I surveyed a walk in South Nottinghamshire , that includes the ruins of St Marys Church, near Cropwell Bishop. Went climbing in the Peak District. Spotted some house sparrows on the bush in the garden. And went down to London to visit my super friend Sarah for her birthday, and to go the the Women's Library to see Subtext in an exhibition about women's magazines !
Greenman's Occasional Organ (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
This is the latest from PAIN ( People Against Incineration ) fighting plans of Nottinghamshire County Council/ Veolia for a County Incinerator in Sherwood Forest at Rainworth near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire : Veolia got their sums wrong Serious mathematical errors have embarrassed Veolia, undermining their application for a waste incinerator. When these mistakes are corrected, Veolia's own Carbon...
