Thirty-one-year-old from Clifton area of the city is being questioned by detectives
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after two children died following a fire at a flat in Nottingham.
The 31-year-old from the Clifton area of the city is being held after the blaze in a first-floor flat in Clifton, at about 3am on Sunday. He remains in police custody for questioning.
Continue reading...Campaigner against violence against women was told her views on transgender issues conflicted with its rights policies
A city council has apologised to veteran feminist and lesbian activist Julie Bindel after cancelling a talk because of “the speaker’s views on transgender rights”.
In June, Bindel was due to give a talk, organised by the Nottingham Women for Change group at Aspley library in Nottingham, one of three earmarked for closure.
Continue reading...Internet downtime for the city averages 70 hours a year, with 11m Britons losing almost two days a year
Almost 11 million consumers have suffered a broadband blackout lasting more than three hours over the last year, with Nottingham named Britain’s “outage capital”.
The average UK household lost a total of almost two days of internet time as a result of loss of service, power cuts and maintenance, figures show.
Continue reading...Man and woman pronounced dead at property in Sneinton area of city
Two people have died after a large house fire in Nottingham in the early hours of Saturday morning, police and fire services have said.
Emergency services were called to reports of a major fire at a terraced house in Whittier Road, in the Sneinton suburb of the city, at 12.43am.
Continue reading...Family of Nottingham woman say they have received ‘the worst news imaginable’ from police
A British teacher who was missing in Japan for more than a week has been found dead.
The family of Alice Hodgkinson, 28, confirmed they had received the “worst news imaginable” from police in Japan.
Continue reading...The failures in maternity care that have been unearthed at hospital trusts around the country over past few years
An investigation into baby deaths at Furness general hospital in Barrow between 2004 and 2013 found a “lethal mix” of failings at almost every level.
Continue reading...The skeleton of Titus, discovered in the US in 2018, makes its world debut at Nottingham museum
The first ‘real’ Tyrannosaurus rex to be exhibited in England for more than a century will go on show in Nottingham on Sunday.
The skeleton of Titus, discovered in the US state of Montana in 2018, will make its world debut at the Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum as part of a new exhibition on the dinosaur’s life and environment.
Continue reading...Vehicle with passengers spotted floating along river at Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire on 1 February
The bodies of a man and a woman have been recovered from a submerged car after a large search operation on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire.
Police dive teams located an object believed to be a vehicle on 2 February, a day after a car with two passengers was reported to have been seen floating along the river at Hoveringham, between Newark and Nottingham.
Continue reading...The mountaineer Doug Scott was a founder of Nottingham Moderns RFC, whose formation arose from the grip that grammar schools often held over rugby union in England. When you left school and wanted to play the game, but had attended a secondary modern school rather than a grammar, there was often nowhere to go. This was particularly the case in Nottingham, where a group of rugby-mad former secondary modern pupils, including Doug, and a motley crew of trainee Welsh school teachers formed their own club.
Doug had failed his 11+ and went to Cottesmore secondary modern, though his academic potential was soon spotted, and he transferred to the Mundella grammar (now Nottingham Emmanuel school) where he thrived. He became club captain of the Moderns for the 1958-59 season and is fondly remembered by many of his former team mates at the Wilford-based club, with many stories of his physical fitness and fondness for a Guinness or two still being told.
Continue reading...City angered by apparent theft of bike chained to post near stencil of hula-hooping girl
A bicycle with a missing wheel accompanying a Banksy mural in Nottingham has vanished, prompting sadness and frustration in the city.
The artwork depicts a girl appearing to hula hoop with a tyre from the bike, which was chained to a nearby pole outside a beauty salon.
Continue reading...Off-licence sales prohibition is first in the UK as beauty salons will also have to close in toughest rules yet
Nottinghamshire will be placed under tier 3 coronavirus measures from Friday, it was confirmed on Wednesday night, with a series of extra rules including the UK’s first virus-related ban on off-licence alcohol sales after 9pm.
West Yorkshire is set to follow suit within days – meaning more than 11 million people in England will soon be under the toughest level of restrictions.
Continue reading...Handwritten letter found in Errol Graham’s flat, where he died after his benefits were cut
Errol Graham, a desperately ill man who died of starvation when his benefits were cut off, wrote a moving letter pleading with welfare officials to “judge me fairly” because he was overwhelmed by depression.
The handwritten letter, seen by the Guardian, was released by Graham’s family as they launched a legal attempt to prove that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) acted unlawfully and put him at risk by failing to put in place effective safeguards to protect vulnerable benefit claimants.
Continue reading...Allen’s release will be subject to strict licence conditions and adherence to ‘exclusion zones’
A female paedophile who operated as part of a “sickening ring” of child abusers is set to be released next month, the Parole Board has confirmed.
Angela Allen was part of a ring including three other women, who were convinced by IT consultant Colin Blanchard to share photographs of themselves abusing children.
Continue reading...HS2 is a once-in-two-century chance to rebalance the UK economy. It isn’t just about creating links to London. There are over 25 stops from Scotland to the south-east. It increases desperately needed capacity on existing lines, creating more space for extra commuter trains. It takes lorries off the road as freight moves to rail, creating more space for the driver on our motorways. There is something in HS2 for every traveller.
The report by the New Economics Foundation (Scrap HS2 and pour £56bn into regions, says thinktank, 20 March) ignores what cities including Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and Birmingham have all been doing to make sure we benefit. Altogether, cities around the route have plans to create nearly 500,000 jobs, 100,000 new homes and add billions to the economy of the country. Poor connections between our major cities have been holding us back for far too long. Together HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and Midlands Connect will give us the links that will unleash investment and bring prosperity to the Midlands and the north.
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