Members of Newark and Sherwood District Council claimed £29,351 in expenses during 2008-9.
A dog walking group and a sports club are joining forces to ask Bingham Town Council to remove signs that call for dogs to be kept on leads on a public field.
The mother of a baby who contracted whooping cough just weeks before she was due to be vaccinated is reminding all parents to protect their children against the potentially-deadly infection.
Youngsters congregating in a village cemetery are upsetting people who have family buried there by removing flowers, playing football between the headstones and drinking.
The MP for Newark, Mr Patrick Mercer, has given his full support to the new Speaker of the House of Commons.
Two pedigree chickens were beaten to death with a tennis racquet at Bowbridge Primary School, Newark, yesterday morning.
An inquest into the death of a businessman from Farnsfield who died while on holiday in Tenerife was held at Nottingham Coroners Court today.
The first President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, will visit Newark this afternoon for the launch of an ambitious project to send thousands of bicycles to Africa.
An off-licence has closed following illegal use of its premises.
Two people offered to replace a bike belonging to the brother of an eight-month-old boy who needs a bone-marrow transplant, after it was stolen last week.
The manager of Derby County, Nigel Clough, will help to officially open a new £750,000 pavilion at Bingham’s Butt Field on Saturday.
Newark has been included in a register of conservation areas which are at risk of neglect, decay or damaging change.
Britain’s Armed Forces past, present and future were honoured at a special flag-raising ceremony at Kelham Hall today.
THE owner of Norwood Park Golf Course at Southwell is offering a reward of £1,000 for information that leads to a successful prosecution of vandals responsible for damaging the course and equipment.
A Newark charity that helps children to deal with personal trauma has gained a place in the semi-finals of the National Lottery Awards. Public voting for the 70 organisations in the semi-finals to get through to the final begins today. (Monday)
A competition to find the best Little Chef in Britain has been won by the branch at Thorpe-on-the-Hill.
A Medieval living history event set at the time of England’s bloody Wars of the Roses is being held in the grounds of Newark Castle today (Saturday) and tomorrow.
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.
