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25 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1997
A SHORT story by contemporary writer Iain Banks is being developed into a film by three students in Newark.
A Gift From the Culture is being made into a 20-minute film at Newark and Sherwood College.
Students Gary Pollard, Bryn Martin and Jon Holmes must produce the film as part of their two-year national diploma in media course.
AMERICAN cake company Sara Lee has agreed to buy out one of Newark’s biggest employers.
Market leaders, the Sara Lee Corporation, has agreed to buy Newark-based frozen and chilled cakes manufacturer Brossard UK.
Brossard has a workforce of 800.
DEVELOPERS have been told to halve the number of homes they want to build on the former British Gypsum site at the top of Beacon Hill, Newark.
In the new scheme, 320 houses would be built on almost 32 acres. But the planning committee agreed to give outline planning permission only if no more than 150 homes were built.
Plans for a golf course were scrapped because no one was interested in it.
NEWARK TENNIS CLUB has been given approval for a £1/4m revamp of its headquarters.
It plans to build a pavilion and all-weather courts and floodlighting. There will be no discos or bars.
FORMER Coronation Street star Peter Baldwin was at East Bridgford Garden Centre to announce National Gnomes’ Tea Party Day in aid of Leukaemia Research.
One of the main storylines involving Derek Wilson in the popular soap was the abduction of a garden gnome and his attempts to identify the culprit.
50 YEARS AGO
June 16, 1972
HEAVY and continuous rain did not deter the crowds from attending a garden party in Newark Parish Church vicarage gardens.
Three girls who did a brisk trade in balloons, despite the weather, were, left to right, Julie Gray, 9, Linda Simpson, 8, and Dawn Johnson, 10.
FRESH hopes of saving some jobs at Newark’s Ransome Hoffman and Pollard factory are raised with the prospect of management-union talks on introducing a European system of shift working.
The management has agreed to discuss the possible implementation, a system of ten 12-hour shifts over three weekly periods, providing it did not increase costs excessively.
THE former Savoy Cinema, Middlegate, Newark, now converted into a four-cinema centre, opens to cinema-goers next week.
Studio 1 will be showing Love Story (A) Carry On At Your Convenience (A) will be shown at Studio 2. Also showing at Studio 2 is White Comanche (A).
Studio 3 offers Diamonds Are Forever (A) with Sean Connery.
Sex Is Not For Virgins (X) and Hot Pants (X) are on in Studio 4.
SHELTERING under a tree during Monday’s torrential rain nearly cost Elton farmer Mr John Garratt his life. For he was struck by lightning — and survived.
Now, he is recovering in a Nottingham hospital and hopes to be home within a few days.
REGULAR customers at the Old White Hart, Newark, formed a football club — and elected girls as their secretary and treasurer.
Secretary is Miss Angela Pollard and treasurer Miss Janet Barnsdale.
The new club is to join the Newark and District Sunday League.
100 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1922
THE result of the Flag Day in aid of the Newark and District Sunday Schools Union was a little below the usual but nevertheless, in view of the prevailing unemployment and distress generally, the sum of £43 was considered very satisfactory.
A COMMENCEMENT was made on the intercepting sewer in connection with the new sewerage scheme, and which will extend from Crankley Point on the Trent for two miles to Millgate.
Today, there are 46 men engaged in the field adjoining Crankley Point. Of those, 37 have been drawn from the district. The work of remaining nine is such that no local unemployed men were qualified.
THE story of a smart capture by the police of an alleged cycle thief was told to the County Police.
Miss Florrie Parker, said she left her cycle in the wash-house at her home at Sutton-on-Trent. The next morning the machine was missing.
Investigations were made into the matter and the defendant was pursued by motor car and taken into custody.
MEMBERS of Southwell BP Scouts and the Company of Girl Guides marched to the War Memorial on Burgage, where they were met by the Bugle Band of the Church Lads Brigade. Forming into procession they marched to the minster, led by the band and followed by many spectators.
TWO women absconded from Southwell Workhouse.
They were found by the porter and brought back and interviewed relative to their conduct.
Both women expressed regret at what had happened and promised there should be no recurrence.
