Archive by year 2018
Nottingham City Council has announced the sad news that former Lord Mayor and long-serving City Councillor, Mohammed Ibrahim, passed away on Christmas Day. Councillor Ibrahim was Lord Mayor from 1993 to 1994 after serving as Deputy Lord Mayor the previous year. He was first elected to the City Council in 1987 as Councillor for the […]
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Nottingham City Council has confirmed that no homeless families with children are expected to be staying in a B & B in Nottingham this Christmas. The Council has been working hard to ensure that it would not need to temporarily accommodate any children in a B & B by the end of 2018. By Christmas […]
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Nottingham Tennis Centre has performed well in two recent national award ceremonies. The centre took the gold medal at the TRP Customer Service Awards and was shortlisted in the category of Most Improved Performer at the recent APSE awards (Association for Public Service Excellence) where they were runners up. The gold award is based on […]
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A warning has gone out to consumers in Nottingham to make sure they don’t fall victim to a festive scam. Christmas is a great break for families but is also a traditional time for fraudsters to try to take advantage of the season of goodwill. Nottingham City Council’s trading standards team has offered the following […]
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Cllr Neghat Khan officially opens the Glade Hill expansion with head teacher Loretta Sheppard A City primary school has officially opened its new £1.8m expansion – increasing its space for pupils by 210 places. Six new classrooms, toilet blocks, a staff room and storage space have been created at Glade Hill Primary in Chippenham Road, […]
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Solar power systems installed on a range of Nottingham City Council buildings have generated one million kilowatt hours of green energy during 2018. Well-used city buildings including libraries, leisure centres, schools and offices all host the council’s solar infrastructure; silently generating clean and green energy whilst the buildings users go about their day. Britain’s heatwave […]
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The much-anticipated redevelopment of intu Broadmarsh and the new Broadmarsh Car Park development took a step closer today, after councillors gave the schemes the green light. The decision to proceed was agreed by councillors at the City Council’s Executive Board meeting. intu’s board have also agreed to go ahead, which now means contracts can be […]
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Austerity isn’t over for Nottingham, with the City Council’s main Government funding slashed by three quarters since 2013 – plummeting from £127m to just £25m for the forthcoming year. On top of this financial blow, the Government is once again demanding that councils reduce their budgets to help address the national debt – meaning the […]
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This New Year’s Eve, Nottingham will welcome 2019 on Old Market Square with a huge free street party and fireworks sponsored by local company Purico in association with Nottingham Care Village. The Old Market Square event takes the place of the traditional event staged in previous years on the site of Nottingham Castle, which is […]
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100 years ago today on Friday 14 December, women were able to vote in a General Election for the first time (it was also the first time that women were allowed to stand for election to Parliament). Nottingham honours suffragette Helen Watts for her pivotal role in the fight, with a new plaque next to […]
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