Nottingham City Council’s taxi licensing team is getting ready for Christmas. The team, which oversees the 2,500 taxis licensed in Nottingham city, will be carrying out mystery shopper taxi journeys over the next few weeks. They will be making sure that taxi drivers in the city obey the rules, and asking members of the public […]
Nottingham City Council has launched its new five-year Homelessness Prevention Strategy and is asking crucial partners – and the public – to commit to playing their part. The launch comes as Shelter releases its annual report showing that homelessness continues to be a worsening national crisis – with ‘at least 320,000 people now homeless in […]
Nottingham City Council has joined calls for the national government to step up its protection of families in private rented properties. A joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV news has this week shone a spotlight on the extent of the problem of rogue landlords renting out unsafe properties to tenants. Nottingham City Council’s Safer […]
After two years of planning, three months on the streets of Nottingham, three days of farewell events and one big, hugely successful charity auction, our beloved Hoodwinked robins have flown the roost. They’ve left their perches after three fun-packed months entertaining visitors and locals and are migrating to their new forever homes after every robin […]
Nottingham leaders have united to take a stand against hate crime at a special event at the University of Nottingham. Timed to coincide with the start of National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2018, today’s event emphasised the partnership approach being taken to tackle hate crime. The ‘No to Hate’ event was organised to reaffirm the […]
Thirty-three five-foot tall fibreglass robins have flown in and stolen the hearts of the people of Nottingham. The city’s Hoodwinked Wild In Art sculpture trail has been on the streets for four weeks and is already proving incredibly popular. The Hoodwinked app has been download over 2700 times Most popular Robin as voted by app […]
Nottinghamshire Pride – Saturday 28 July 11am – 6pm Nottingham City Centre will be awash with colour and wrapped in rainbow flags this Saturday as Nottinghamshire Pride takes place in the city. Thousands of people will fill the streets for the annual celebration that mixes serious issues for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) […]
Summer in Nottingham is already off to a brilliant start with a combination of hot sunny weather and plenty of things to do. First, Nottingham celebrates our amazing NHS in the celebrations of the 70th Birthday of the National Health Service on Thursday 5 July. Over 200 NHS staff are invited to the Council House […]
Nottingham City Council today (Tuesday 10 April) launches a campaign asking Nottingham residents to play their part in reducing litter. Everyone is being encouraged to keep Nottingham clean by picking up and binning a piece of litter when they are out and about. If everyone in the city picked up a piece of litter, it […]
Nottingham has always been a city of scientific and medical discovery – Boots, ibuprofen and the MRI were all created in Nottingham. Now, the city is creating an environment that will inspire the next generation of scientific discovery. Nottingham is one of six science cities in the UK, alongside Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle and York, […]