Jazz meets visual art at a premier screening in the Council House on Friday March 10 at 12.30pm; free entry to Italian artist Roberto Alborghetti’s short film Colours of Nottingham set to my soundtrack Can I Think of Love? Later, Swing and Bass are raising money for My Sight Nottinghamshire who help support blind and partially sighted children and adults. Dress vintage and dance to the UK’s best electro swing DJs from 8pm-3am at Rough Trade.
Category: Leicestershire County, England
Marco Silva is described as “intense” by his players
It would have been so easy to dismiss the Hull manager as a club puppet, brought in to oversee a fire sale ahead of near certain relegation. They were bottom of the Premier League when Silva took over Hull on January 5 and given even less chance of survival when they sold Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore during the transfer window.
Pomp and pageantry: city’s first 1 million new street 1
For better or worse, one thing they certainly used to do better in the “old days” is pomp and circumstance. This photograph, above, showing the official opening, by the Lord Mayor of London, of Leicester’s new Charles Street, 85 years ago, illustrates the point perfectly.
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A heroin addict who stole a total of A 1,600 of alcohol from 20 shops – and then gave the police his brother’s name – has been jailed. Gary Mollison was arrested by police after he was identified on CCTV footage.
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A heroin addict who stole a total of A 1,600 of alcohol from 20 shops – and then gave the police his brother’s name – has been jailed. Gary Mollison was arrested by police after he was identified on CCTV footage.
Dirty Diary: This week I torment Tinky-Winky, probe Douglas Carswell…
CONSTRUCTION workers at the O2 Arena in London were in the news last week. Not because they scythed through someone’s broadband cable, mistakenly cut off the gas to thousands of homes and hoovered up all the fudge doughnuts and steak bakes in Greggs – they didn’t, so far as I know – but because they unearthed and then smashed to smithereens the Blue Peter Millennium Time Capsule .
Wes Morgan rescues Leicester City in FA Cup draw with Derby
Leicester City’s English-born Jamaican defender Wes Morgan celebrates with Leicester City’s English midfielder Demarai Gray and Leicester City’s English midfielder Danny Drinkwater after scoring their second goal during the English FA Cup fourth round football match between Derby County and Leicester City at Pride Park Stadium in Derby, central England on January 27, 2017. / AFP / Oli SCARFF Leicester City’s Wes Morgan scored a late header as the Premier League champions rescued a 2-2 FA Cup draw against Derby County having been five minutes from an embarrassing fourth round exit to their second tier opponents on Friday.
Goosedale go-ahead for A 1.5 million luxury holiday lodges
About 30 jobs are to be created after planning permission was granted for nine luxury holiday lodges in a 1.5 million project at Papplewick. The rural lodges will be a new attraction at the Goosedale events venue, which is part of a 130-acre site at Goosedale Lane, off Moor Road.
John Dilley’s Wwi Blog: Career criminal finally caught
Police in Market Harborough claimed a coup when they caught a career criminal who had evaded officers from around the country. Palmer had asked for TWELVE other cases to be taken into consideration from LIVERPOOL to LONDON – all offences where he tricked owners out of motor cars or horses and traps.
Work on flood defences continues a year on from storm Eva hitting town
Storm Eva hit Warrington on Boxing Day 2015, leaving parts of town including Latchford Locks, Longford, Sankey Valley Park, Woolston Park, Lymm, Croft and Burtonwood flooded. A 100m section of Cromwell Avenue between Europa Boulevard and Sankey Brook was hit with 150mm of flood water, with Environment Agency flood defences protecting 119 properties.