Riverside Festival: Duck races, fairground rides and fireworks all on offer
AS thousands of rubber ducks descended from the Suspension Bridge into the River Trent, Italian student Dino Pacini asked: "Is this a typically English thing?"Mr Pacini, 21, was visiting the country...
View ArticleNottingham weather: Warm temperatures look set to stay for the week
The sun made a welcome appearance today with temperatures reaching pleasant highs of 22C.This looks set to continue for Monday August 4 as the Met Office predicts sunshine for most of the day with only...
View ArticlePagan Pride 2014: Hundreds flock from across the globe to festival at the...
The appeal of Nottingham's Pagan Pride has hit Stateside with revellers coming from America to take part in the sixth annual festival.From belly-dancing to talks on Norse mythology the event, held at...
View ArticleThe Poppy Proms: Commemorative concert held at Lambley Lane Recreation Ground
Former soldier Martin Kerry proudly donned his grandfather's medals in tribute to the Royal Engineer's brave service during the First World War.Fred Kerry, of Sneinton Hill Farm, was gassed twice...
View ArticleCadets scuppered by theft of boat engine
NOTTINGHAM Sea Cadets have been left landlocked after a brand new engine was stolen from one of their boats.The theft happened at the charity's base on Waterside Way, next to Nottingham Racecourse.The...
View ArticleFootball fans await sentence after fight at Nottingham train station
FOUR men – including one from Radcliffe-on-Trent – are to be sentenced today after a fight at Nottingham train station.The football fans clashed at the station and a wine bottle was smashed on the head...
View ArticleNottingham court listings: Who has been appearing before magistrates?
City centre: Daniel Nichols, 23, of no fixed address, has been sent to prison for 12 weeks after stealing six watches belonging to Time Watches, in the city centre, on July 19. The watches were worth...
View ArticleWhere is the cheapest petrol in Nottingham?
1. Mrh Wollaton Spar, Wollaton Vale, Wollaton, 125.9p2. Asda Nottingham, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, 126.7p3. Asda Hyson Green, Radford Road, Hyson Green, 126.7p4. Sainsbury's Castle Boulevard,...
View ArticleCounty coughs up £1m for sports hub in Newark
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE County Council has put £1 million into a £5 million project to build a sports centre in Newark.The money pledged towards the Newark Sports Association facility will compensate for the...
View ArticleThe Meadows murder trial: Jury told how teenage boys found burned body of friend
TWO teenage boys discovered the lifeless body of an Iraqi refugee after he had been strangled to death and set on fire at his home in The Meadows, a court heard.The boys, aged just 15 and 17, found...
View ArticleMy amazing life with the true football genius Brian Clough
TEN years after the legendary football manager's death, one of Brian Clough's close friends has released a book giving a rare insight into the man behind the green jumper.Colin Shields, 81, of...
View ArticleThe Nottingham crime file
Sherwood: A thief has been jailed for 16 months after leaving DNA on a bottle of booze at the house he had broken into. Jan Grzywna, of Myrtle Avenue, Forest Fields, left half a bottle of Martell...
View ArticleExpectations? Stuart Pearce has a few of his own at Nottingham Forest
NOTTINGHAM Forest is a club that is synonymous with expectation. So it will not be a surprise that Stuart Pearce has a few expectations of his own.One of those is that he does fully expect to win...
View ArticleOne in 15 Nottingham pupils excluded from school
ONE in 15 city secondary school pupils have been kicked out of lessons – for bad behaviour including assault, stealing and taking drugs.Pupils have also been excluded for verbal abuse and...
View ArticleDriver airlifted to QMC after A1 crash
THE DRIVER of a Mercedes which crashed with a lorry on the A1 is in hospital with life-threatening injuries. The car driver was air-lifted to the Queen's Medical Centre at after the crash on the...
View ArticleFirefighters rescue horse from ditch
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a horse from a ditch. The owner was waiting for a vet to attend the stuck animal when the rescue was made in Wood Lane, West Markham at around 9pm on Monday August 4. Crews from...
View ArticlePolice release photo of seven-year-old Bestwood Park murder victim
Nottinghamshire Police has published a photo of the seven-year-old Bestwood Park murder victim Shanay Rihanna Walker.The girl, who attended Robin Hood primary school, was named on Monday when Kay-Ann...
View ArticleHow Nottinghamshire marked Lights Out for anniversary of World War One
Hundreds of people across Nottinghamshire turned off their lights and left just one candle burning on Monday night to remember those who died in World War One. The gesture saw lights turned off at 10pm...
View ArticlePaul Taylor: Nottingham Forest ambitions have not been written off along with...
WHEN it comes to his preparations for Saturday, little has changed for Stuart Pearce.As Nottingham Forest prepare to face Blackpool, two of his best young players will still be available.Karl Darlow,...
View ArticleStuart Pearce will demand answers over player sales, but is not ready to walk...
STUART Pearce says he will seek answers over why two of Nottingham Forest's players were sold behind his back.But the Reds boss says he will not walk away from the challenge of managing the...
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