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September 11, 1957

It was announced at a meeting of Newark Hospitals Committee yesterday that the Regional Hospitals Board and the General Nursing Council have decided the Newark General and Hawtonville hospitals are to become an assistant-nurses training centre.

In Newark nurses will be able to gain their certificates as state enrolled assistant-nurses.

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Re-decoration of the 18th Century ballroom of Newark Town Hall in shades of turquoise and cream is now complete except for the final polishing of the newly-laid dance floor.

The first public engagement in the re-decorated ballroom will be the Battle of Britain ball on Friday.

So that the decorations should be seen at their best, the organisers — the Newark branch of the Royal Air Forces Association —have decided to abandon their usual practice of adding decorations in the form of flags, bunting and balloons.

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Britain’s distinguished composer, Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams, has specially written the test music Ransome and Marles band will play when competing for the national brass band championship in London next month.

The piece is entitled Variations For Brass Band and takes about ten minutes to perform.

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September 4, 1957

New road traffic regulation which come into force on January 1, 1958 is the direct result of an idea put forward at the meeting of Newark Road Safety Council more than three years ago.


The new law will require all goods and dual purpose vehicles to be fitted with two driving mirrors, one on the off-side and the other either internally or on the nearside.

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Foam on the River Trent — which at Newark sometimes rises to barges’ deck level — is mainly the fault of housewives who are extravagant with detergents, Nottingham City Council has been told.

Mr P. Andrew, vice-chairman of the sewage disposal committee, remarked: “If the housewife would take account of her extravagance and cut down her use of detergents by 50% there would be much less foam on the Trent.�

And that, he added, was the only real way of counteracting the foam.