The Royal British Legion poppy was taken from a 1915 poem by a medic who looked across the battlefields to see poppies growing around graves.
Mr Robert Sheppard misrepresents science in his letter when he describes science “as a game of guess-and-test”. The word guess is derogatory.
I would like to endorse the comments made by SC McCarthy regarding the recent staff redundancies at Newark Town Hall Museum.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who helped me after my fall on Rowan Way.
Since lockdown in March I have been using Newark Market on Saturdays to buy fresh produce.
As of this week there are 39 linked positive cases at Mansfield Police station and 19 positive cases at force headquarters at Sherwood Lodge.
Oh the irony! Spending our taxes on encouraging us to plant trees, when weeks ago Newark and Sherwood District Council was destroying valuable growth.
A few months ago work started to clear land for a housing development on the site of Flowserve, Balderton.
We feel it is unfortunate that the government will not extend support to feed children in what are extraordinary and unprecedented times.
The government says there could be a vaccine for covid-19. I am not a scientist but it took years to get a vaccine for other diseases, like polio.
