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  • Police alert after spate of break-ins at centres

    By Derby Telegraph at 07:30 on 19/05/12
    Target:   From left, community member Sandra Berry with volunteers David Day, Lesley Rhodes and Chloe Marsh at Wollaton Avenue Community Centre.
    COMMUNITY centre staff in Gedling are being urged to be vigilant after a series of break-ins. Notts Police say they have had 51 reported burglaries and other offences at community centres, scout huts, restaurants, and garden sheds in the Gedling South area since April 1 – up 104 per cent on the same period last year. In the most recent incident Gedling Play Forum, in the Wollaton Avenue Community Centre in Gedling, was hit ...
  • Roll of honour: Our heroes

    By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 19/05/12
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    Since the Allied campaign in Afghanistan began in 2001, 15 local soldiers have died in action and one from illness. Of the fallen, 12 were from Notts, one from Ripley, and two from Ilkeston. They are: Andrew Cutts, 19, from Blidworth, died August 6, 2006. Steven Johnson, 38, of Collingham. September 2, 2006. Paul Sandford, 23, from Hucknall. June 6, 2007. Thomas Wright, 21, of Ripley. June 24, 2007. Damian Wright, 23, of...
  • Chemists

    By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 16/05/12
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    Arnold:M. N. Singh, 77 High Street, to 6.30pm; Sainsbury's Pharmacy, Nottingham Road, to 10pm. Beeston and Lenton Abbey:Grewal Chemist, 38-40 Chilwell Road, to 7pm; Jardines Pharmacy, Sainsbury's Complex, Beeston, to 6.45pm; Manor Pharmacy, 24 Chilwell Road, to 7pm. Bestwood:Forest Pharmacy, 131 Arnold Road, to 7pm. Burton Joyce:Burrows & Close, 49 Main Street, to 6.30pm. Chilwell:Gordon Davis Chemists, 81 Bramcote Lane, to...
  • Column: Matt Rooney, head of the Nottinghamshire Scouts

    By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 16/05/12
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    WITH Scout Community Week in full swing, thousands of Nottinghamshire Scouts are all "doing 1 thing" to help improve their local communities. The week not only builds on one of our founding principles of helping other people, but it also helps focus the mind on the difference that "doing 1 thing" can make. As many as 2,000 Nottinghamshire Scouts will have volunteered in their communities from May 14-20. Scouts...
  • More bids for green energy that sparked protests...

    By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 16/05/12
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    PREVIOUS applications for wind turbines in Gedling borough have sparked strong protest among residents. Severn Trent Water asked Gedling Borough Council for permission to build two 132-metre high wind turbines next to the Poplars Sports Ground in March 2010. But Burton Joyce Parish Council submitted a 200-page document opposing the plans. Other objectors included Carlton le Willows Academy, Burton Joyce Cricket Club and Sport...

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