About 100 scaffolding workers at Staythorpe Power Station yesterday staged an unofficial walk-out in support of the 650 construction workers sacked from Lindsey Oil Refinery.
The new owner of what is thought to be Newark’s oldest pub is asking the people of the town to come up with a new name for it.
The county councillor for the Bingham area, Mr Martin Suthers, has been named as the new deputy leader of Nottinghamshire County Council.
FOR serving troops, the tour of duty will not end when 2 Mercian boards its flight home.
Ava Platoon provide reconnaissance and protect the convoys that make deliveries to forward operating bases.
The Rushcliffe MP, Mr Ken Clarke, was given special dispensation for his wife to claim single person’s occupancy at his West Bridgford home because he was in London so often.
The MP for Sherwood, Mr Paddy Tipping, has apologised for using taxpayers’ money to refurbish his London flat.
During the visit I had the chance to drive some of the vehicles that the British use in Helmand, among them the new Jackal that those on the ground says provides greater safety from improvised explosive devices.
Colour Sergeant Willy Plowman works at 2 Mercian’s Camp Shorabak headquarters as one of the intelligence officers.
About 100 scaffolding workers at Staythorpe Power Station yesterday staged an unofficial walk-out in support of the 650 construction workers sacked from Lindsey Oil Refinery.
More than 5,000 people are expected on the streets of Newark for the town’s annual carnival.
More than 50 people were fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a police operation in Newark this week.
A former journalist, who has spent seven years researching the village where he lives, has written a book based on his findings.
Children at a Bingham day nursery visited one of the town’s bottle banks as part of a month-long project on recycling and the environment.
Job hunters are going back to college to get back into work.
A PROPOSAL to move parked buses from the town centre to Bingham Industrial Estate has been put forward.
A rare plant that flowers every eight years was in full bloom this week.
A hippopotamus, an aeroplane and large colourful fish are not items you would expect to find on an industrial estate — but they are part of a large collection of props at the Blunderbus Theatre Company’s Workshop.
About 300 pupils from seven primary schools in the Newark area sampled a PE lesson with a difference on Wednesday.
AN ALLIANCE between the Minster School, Southwell, and Magnus School, Newark, would help both to improve, according to the chairman of governors of the Minster School.
