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May 29, 1957

Wearing a completely blacked out face mask, Pc G. H. Colclough demonstrated how a systematic search can discover an unseen body under water when Nottinghamshire Police frogmen were inspected for the first time.

He is on the left helping a controller, Pc C. W. Shooter, haul a body - another police frogman - from the swimming pool at county headquarters, Epperstone Manor.

Watching are Commander W. J. A. Willis, Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, and the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire, Mr. J. E. S. Browne.

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Newark road accident figures for the first quarter of 1957 show the effect of petrol rationing. There were 14 accidents compared with 22 for the first quarter of last year.

They caused injury to 15 people compared with 25 in the first three months of 1956.

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Mrs K. A. Quibell too office as Newark's first woman mayor on Thursday. She was elected on the proposition of Councillor A. E. Whomsley.

"This is a very historic occasion," he said. "Newark is steeped in history and this is one of those days that brings a fresh addition to that history."
 

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May 22, 1957

Heavy land farmers are having their worst spring season ever - and it all started because the winter was so mild.

There were virtually no frosts this last winter. There have been few good tilths and germination has been very slow and poor. A typical sight in Newark district fields of spring corn this week is a patchwork of bare soil and a little greenness here and there.

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The Newark bypass is not among 23 schemes for improvements on the Great North Road, A1, being given priority by the Ministry of Transport, according to the British Road Federation.

It points out that 11 years ago the government decided to make the A1 dual carriageway all the way from London to Newcastle.

"When such a transformation will come about is anybody's guess," says the federation. "Until then the A1 can hardly be described as a major north-south road link designed to cope with modern traffic levels"
 

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May 15, 1957

Extra time was needed before the Notts Senior Cup Final between Ransome and Marles and Sutton Town at Meadow Lane, Nottingham, was decided.

After 90 minutes there was no score but within seven minutes of the start of extra-time Watson scored for Ransome and Marles. Their second goal came from Garbett. Sutton scored seven minutes from the end and the game finished with the score 2-1 in the Greens' favour.

The Ransome and Marles line-up was B. Molyneux, V. S. Howard, P. J. Anderson, B. Cunningham, G Hewgill (capt) T. G. Holmes, J. W. Garbett, J. G. Fryer, V. Watson, J. Percival, G. Parsons.

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Newark cartoonist Mr S. A. Vanns, of Valley Prospect, has received payment from America for a drawing he had completely forgotten and which he did not know had been reproduced in an American magazine.

He received a letter from the editor of the Accordion Times saying: "An American accordion paper recently reproduced one of your cartoons which we had published in Accordion Times some considerable time ago.
We wrote and pointed out that a fee was payable to the cartoonist concerned and we have now received two dollars in payment for the cartoon. The two dollars are enclosed herewith."

And they were - two one-dollar bills. "I shall probably frame one of them," said Mr Vanns.

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Nine Chicks and nine guys lined up at the Ideal Cinema, Southwell, on Thursday for the coolest rock ‘n’ roll competition. It was a real gone gasser. The winners were: Pauline Stevenson and Bob Carlin; Olive Pacey and Ron Hurst; and Margaret Malpass and Jack Somerset.
 

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May 1, 1957

This Advertiser newsphoto shows Major-General P. N. White, colonel of the 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters, talking to a member of the Army Cadet Force.

Major-General White was making his last appearance as colonel of the Sherwood Foresters at a St George's Day parade in Newark.

The Mayor of Newark (Coun R. A. Hurst) accompanied him. On the extreme left is Lieutenant-Colonel John Nicholson.

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Newark, with one of the biggest slum clearance programmes for its size in the country, is already badly behind with its programme.

This was revealed at a meeting of Newark Town Council when it was pointed out that the borough had 800 houses deemed to be unfit for occupation and a clearance plan of at least 75 houses a year.

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Synthetic detergent bubbles that have produced walls of foam in the River Trent are worrying bargemen. The foam is making their lives more hazardous, they say.

They risk falling over the side of barges when they cannot see what they are doing because of the bubbles.

If they did trip overboard rescuers would be unable to find them under the deep foam.