Ollerton

School league tables have revealed that Dukeries College, Ollerton, is the best secondary school in Nottinghamshire for pupils’ progress.

The future of an underused rural bus service looks uncertain after a council admitted it will have to pick up the bill when Government subsidies run out this month.

Traffic wardens will return to the streets of Newark and Sherwood in May, handing out fines of up to £70.

Almost 900 cremations have taken place at a new crematorium in the last year, although this was not enough to see a town council receive any financial benefit.

A council leader hopes the opening of a Boots pharmacy in Ollerton could signal the beginning of a retail boom that could attract more high street names to the town.

A mother is calling for money to be spent on improving play areas, which she says are falling into disrepair, and are a magnet for drinking teenagers.

The future of a support service that helps families with young children is secure for at least the next five years after it received a lottery grant.

The wife of a dedicated biker and family man has spoken of her devastation after her husband was killed in a road accident, five years after their daughter also died in an accident.

Inspectors have rated a community school as satisfactory, but said boys are still lagging behind girls when it comes to achievement.

A developer who wants to convert two homes into flats in Ollerton and Boughton was told on Tuesday he could go ahead with one of the plans but not the other.

Teenagers and youth leaders in Ollerton and Boughton finally have a new £700,000 young people’s centre, three years after the previous facility closed.

The Dukeries College, Ollerton, could be rebuilt and turned into an academy school as part of a £150m scheme to transform secondary education in Newark and north Nottinghamshire.

A taxi driver has set himself the hefty challenge of shedding five stone to raise money for a children’s hospice.

Renovation work on an ancient village church has been completed after a charity stepped in with a grant of £11,000.

The new principal of a community school hopes to improve attainment and continue the progress made by his predecessor.

Pest controllers are to be called in to clear moles from a cemetery.

Residents say their homes are being damaged by heavy traffic as drivers try to avoid a busy roundabout.

Residents and developers are on a collision course over Ollerton Hall after it emerged the building would become a care home and not apartments.

A popular village Post Office closed for the last time on Wednesday after a residents’ campaign failed to save it.

A teaching assistant is appealing for the safe return of 20 years-worth of photographs that were in the boot of her car when it was unexpectedly towed away from her former home.