Ollerton

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.

A community workshop scheme in Ollerton has been given a £50,000 grant to help keep it running for two years.

A decision on a planning application for 36 apartments in Boughton was deferred on Tuesday after it was alleged that a letter of objection had not been received.

A community food co-operative that has been running for a year is proving so popular that there are plans to take it into schools.

Campaigners and residents of a care home earmarked for closure feel they have done all they can to stop its closure, and can only now anxiously await the results of the public questionnaires.

Improving maths and English attainment are priorities for a new school principal after league tables released yesterday showed his pupils were not hitting Government targets.

PEOPLE who illegally ride their motorcycles around Ollerton are being warned that their bikes will be crushed if they are caught.