New Year's Eve in Nottingham: What's on and transport
Thousands of revellers are expected to hit the Nottingham's pubs, bars and clubs and Old Market Square for New Year's Eve celebrations tonight.Nottingham City Council will be putting on a midnight...
View ArticleWind dying down for New Year's Eve - but revellers in for a cold night
Revellers across Notts are facing a cold New Year's Eve - but the gale force gusts of today will die down. Gusts of more than 30mph swept across the county today. In Southwell, a tree blew down and...
View ArticleBody found in hunt for missing man Wayne Havercroft
The body of missing man Wayne Havercroft has been found at Mill Lakes County Park in Bestwood Village. The 42-year-old was reported missing from his home on Saturday afternoon December 29. His body was...
View ArticleJanuary transfer window: the latest news and gossip
Football's New Year will kick off with a bang tomorrow when the transfer window is thrown open. While the nation enjoys a day of rest players will be pondering moves, and clubs debating how best to...
View ArticleThe ten most popular sports stories on This Is Nottingham in 2012
As 2012 draws to a close, we look at which stories you've been clicking on this year. The highs and lows of Nottingham Forest have been the biggest draw this year - with takeover talks topping the...
View ArticleA new year, a new dawn as Nottinghamshire's stars continue to inspire
A NEW year has broken. After all the waiting, all the anticipation, 2012 can now be consigned to history.No longer are we living in an Olympic year, no longer in a period of the London Games.After a...
View ArticleSheila Jackman
DESCRIBED as a "wonder woman" by teachers, colleagues and parents at Hempshill Hall Primary School, Sheila Jackman has called time on her long and productive career.Cards, gifts and flowers were...
View ArticleThe latest news from Nottinghamshire's courts...
NO evidence has been offered against Ahmed Imtiaz, 45, of Cromwell Street, Canning Circus, Nottingham. He denied charges of assault and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in...
View Article£1m country park dream moves step closer to reality
A £1 MILLION project to create a new country park in Gedling has moved a step closer.Plans to turn the former Gedling colliery site, off Spring Lane, into a country park have been in the pipeline for...
View ArticleThe landmark business built by German POWs
MANY thousands of motorists must have stopped for a tank of petrol, or brought their cars for service, at the old Gorse Hill Garage in Plains Road, Mapperley.The garage closed more than 30 years ago...
View ArticleStop and search figures must be put in context
RECENTLY, in both national and local media, there has been a lot of coverage about police stop and search figures appearing to show that it is mainly ethnic minorities that are being targeted.I...
View ArticleGrowing old disgracefully
REGULAR correspondent Joy James, of Colwick Park Close, Colwick Village, ushers in the New Year with memories and verse:First-footing is an ancient British tradition whereby one encourages someone tall...
View ArticleAll-Seeing Erik has the answers again
"ALL-Seeing Erik," people are constantly asking The All-Seeing Erik, "since you nailed everything that was going to happen last year, whaddya reckon's going to happen this year?"And they're making a...
View ArticleLittle Brianne's back at home for brighter 2013 after a year in hospital with...
JUST over a year ago, first-time parents Jade Underwood-Tattersall and Dean Haywood sat beside the hospital bedside of their first child praying she would stay alive.At the time, the unnerving bleep of...
View ArticleReaders get into the Christmas spirit to smash our Five Tons of Tins target
GENEROUS readers smashed the target set by the Post to collect tins of food for hard-up families at Christmas.The Post's Five Tons of Tins campaign finished with the announcement on Christmas Eve that...
View ArticleMan in court over stand-off at Chilwell flats
A MAN has appeared in court in connection with an incident which led to the Chilwell block of flats where he lives being evacuated.Matthew Wilkinson, 36, of Ribblesdale Court, faces counts of criminal...
View ArticleTrain services to and from London back on track after crash
NORMAL train services to and from London St Pancras are expected to resume from 11am today after emergency repair works.The work follows the derailment of a freight train at Barrow-opon-Soar, between...
View ArticleLittle Brianne at home after a year in hospital with life-threatening brain...
A DEVOTED mum and dad will have their little girl at home this new year for the first time in over a year after she was born with a life-threatening brain tumour.Brianne Underwood-Tattersall had to be...
View ArticleAnother 110 new homes set for multi-million-pound Stonebridge Park estate plan
MULTI-MILLION-POUND plans have been revealed to build 110 new houses in St Ann's as part of the regeneration of the Stonebridge Park estate.The new homes are part of an overall plan to build 210 houses...
View ArticleNumber of norovirus cases across Notts continues to rise
THE number of people contracting the highly contagious norovirus in Notts has risen again.In the week before Christmas, 750 people in the city and county visited their GP with symptoms.This was ten per...
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