Nottingham has marked the centenary of women being given the right to vote on 6 February 1918. The Council House was lit up in purple, white and green – echoing the colours worn by suffragettes to advance their cause, as figures from local women’s organisations involved in Nottingham’s Centenary Cities project met to mark the […]
Castle Rock Brewery’s first micropub and wine cellar on Carrington Street, Nottingham will retain the name of the sweet shop that graced its location and opened today as The Barley Twist. For generations, the much-loved shop offered travellers and locals a multitude of choices of sweets in jars. On opening as Castle Rock’s 25th in […]
New Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) come into force on 20 October in Nottingham, providing Nottingham’s 100 Community Protection Officers (CPOs) with the powers they need to deal with street drinkers and keep the city safer. An existing network of DPPOs (Designated Public Place Order) already cover Nottingham, allowing authorised officers including CPOs to require […]
A historic Victorian wand (baton), used by a local police officer in the 1800’s is heading back to its official home. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Councillor Glyn Jenkins, will return a historic symbol of office to #Byron House in the city. A tipstaff – the traditional rod of authority of a police officer – […]
Letters are being sent to homes across Nottingham to ensure that the electoral register is up to date. Residents across Nottingham will begin receiving Household Enquiry Forms through the post from the City Council over the next week, as part of the process of registering to vote. The Household Enquiry Forms (HEFs) have been sent […]
Nottingham is celebrating Love Parks Week (14-23 July) by highlighting the city’s fantastic green spaces. A Sunday Times article (9/7/17) revealed that 15.3% of Nottingham is covered in accessible green space – making it the second greenest city in Britain. Birmingham came top in the report produced by the Ordnance Survey, with 15.6% green space. […]
Nottingham is celebrating the achievements of the everyday heroes who help to keep the city clean every day. Nottingham City Council spends £7million a year on street cleaning – with crews working 20 hours a day seven days a week to keep the streets clean. But as well as the Council’s Clean crews, who collect […]
It’s the BIGGEST ever summer in Nottingham – and everyone is invited! Summer 2017 is set to be the best ever in the city, with everything from amazing new events like the world-exclusive Dinosaurs of China Exhibition and the British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup – which will be broadcast live on the BBC – to […]
Fly-tipping is a big problem for councils across the UK. In February 2017, the chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy called fly-tipping an ‘epidemic’ that has reached crisis levels. In Nottingham meanwhile, fly-tipping has been decreasing over the last few years. In 2016, Nottingham City Council collected 5920 fly-tips, compared to 7746 in 2015 and […]
People who fly-tip, litter and don’t pick up after their dogs are in the City Council’s sights as a new campaign is launched to urge everyone to play their part in helping to keep Nottingham clean. Nine out of ten people in Nottingham say that they believe those living in the city have a responsibility […]