Monday 15 June 2020 will mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. In Nottingham we believe that every adult should be able to live safely, free from abuse and neglect. Most adults are able to do this, but research indicates that nationally almost half a million people aged over 65 will experience some form of abuse […]
Nottingham has started to carefully and safely reopen to more people as the Government eases lock down restrictions and new arrangements are put in place to make it possible. The City Council is working with the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID), retailers and other local businesses to ensure the city centre and neighbourhood shopping areas […]
Councillor Jon Collins, Leader of Nottingham City Council, said: “Our thoughts this morning are with the victims and families of this brutal and murderous attack on the streets of London. Once again, we pay tribute to the emergency services who worked tirelessly through the night in response to this terrible event. This was a criminal […]
The Leader of Nottingham City Council, Jon Collins, has welcomed the jury’s verdicts at the Hillsborough inquests which found that the 96 people who died at the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in April 1989 were unlawfully killed and that fans were not to blame. Councillor Collins said: “I’m pleased to see justice for […]
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki and British star Heather Watson, will play at the Aegon Open Nottingham WTA event in June. Wozniacki and Watson will be joining a world class player field which includes Victoria Azarenka at the Nottingham Tennis Centre. Wozniacki has won 23 tour titles, including the Aegon International Eastbourne in 2009, […]
The National Voter Registration Drive, co-ordinated by the Bite the Ballot campaign, takes place this week from Monday 1 to Sunday 7 February 2016. This year marks the third annual NVRD with a week of national action in which thousands of people across the UK will join BTB to dispel the myth that young people […]
The “size of the prize” of devolution for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire has been set out publicly in detail for the first time, as the region’s draft deal is published today (Tuesday 5 January 2016). The deal document, which sets out the final negotiating position of the Council and business leaders behind the bid, was sent to Chancellor George […]
The number of people following Nottingham City Council’s main Twitter verified account @MyNottingham has reached 50,000. The City Council set up the @MyNottingham account on social media network Twitter in January 2009 and has been steadily building up followers since then, tweeting more than 14,000 messages on a range of issues. After reaching 40,000 in […]
On Friday 11 December, UNESCO awarded Nottingham with the status of City of Literature. This accolade was the result of a bid process that was initiated approximately two years ago. Nottingham joins eleven other UNESCO Cities of Literature across the globe: Edinburgh, Melbourne, Iowa City, Dublin, Reyjavik, Norwich, Krakow, Heidelburg, Granada, Prague and Dunedin. Nottingham, […]
The new Hyson Green library, recently relocated to the Mary Potter Centre, will be officially opened by the Lord Mayor on Monday 7 December at 1pm. The official opening event will also be attended by pupils from two local primary schools, St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Bentinck Primary, who will be entertained by local magician, […]