Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Meeting by 12noon on Saturday 14th July, people gathered for the Sneinton Carnival. It started on the Old School Hall yard at Windmill Lane, next to Greens Windmill.

Meeting by 12noon on Saturday 14th July, people gathered for the Sneinton Carnival. It started on the Old School Hall yard at Windmill Lane, next to Greens Windmill.

Residence, schools and youth groups from all around Sneinton made some fantastic colourful costumes for the parade.

On Thursday 12th July, there was an International Food Evening at the Sneinton Hermitage Centre. An event as part of the Sneinton Community Festival.

An international celebration of food, music and dance from around the world.

We is into Palestina after many -ings: waitings, stressings, questionings, searchings....
We are meeting many active Israelis up for going through walls,
we did play with clown army friends in Jerusalem
and now we are proper starting with a 2 week project in Bethlehem tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone in Europe for all your support (even the knockers, the anti clowns, the zionist stooges and the negative energy vampires - you inspired us to keep doing this and never give up - so perversely thankyou too)
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This workshop is for anyone concerned about the state of the world – whether you are already living sustainably, engaged as an activist or campaigner or are someone who wants to feel empowered and supported to start to do any of these, or something else!

The Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is a celebration of African Caribbean culture which will took place this year on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th July on the Forest Fields Nottingham.

The Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is a celebration of African Caribbean culture which will took place this year on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th July on the Forest Fields Nottingham.

The Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is a celebration of African Caribbean culture which will took place this year on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th July on the Forest Fields Nottingham.

Tonight the only remaining caves at Sneinton were open to the public. Like with most things nowadays there are insurance issues, thus has meant that the opening of the caves can only happen during bigger events such as the Sneinton Festival which would cover its insurance costs. Anyhow, here are some photos of the event. A lot more interesting is the ongoing campaigning by various people from the Nottingham Civic Society for the council to open up more of Nottingham's caves to the public. Once I've done an interview with someone from the Civic Society about the campaign, I will post the audio of this under the article.

The Sneinton Festival, a week long community festival in Sneinton, is currently underway. A week of events in and around Sneinton culminating in a parade and carnival Sat 14th of July, needs help. We arelooking for volunteers to help with turf laying, set up, litter picking, take down and cyclists to take part in the parade. For a list of events see below......

Coinciding with the start of a second one-day postal strike, there's an Organising for Fighting Unions Public Meeting at 7pm in the New Mechanics (3 North Sherwood Street) on Thursday, 12 July. Speakers include a striking postal worker, and Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the PCS Civil Service Union.

Work is continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. Walls are mostly enclosing the building now. Window-frames fitted. Layers of lime rendering on the outside walls. Now, over the last few days, a start is made on the inside walls. A preparation of clay, sand and straw is mixed. Clay is sieved to remove lumps and stones. Sand added to the mixture and a little water added sparingly.

Course: Hand Built Wind Turbines
Dates: 20th-22nd July
Location: Hill Holt Wood, Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border.
cost: £200, discounts available on request.

Footprints for Peace are a group of people from Australia. They are on an Interfaith peace walk which started in Dublin and aims to be in London on August 6th to mark the anniversary of Hiroshima Day. They have already stopped at several nuclear facilities like Fillingdales, Faslane, and Sellafield and they will later be stopping at Aldermaston. They will be arriving in Nottingham on Saturday 14th July.

A report on Nottingham students' involvement in the recent anti-Trident peace camp at Coulport.

Health care team providing specialist support to people living in the community with mental health issues and learning difficulties is being axed.

The Sumac is closed for business throughout the whole of July to do some long overdue maintenance and redecoration!

We are looking for anyone and everyone to get involved - whether you are highly skilled at DIY or just enthusiastic!

Here is another exciting event which is being held in the straw-bale building at Ecoworks. The idea is to start on the internal wall finish coat.

All those from Nottingham arrested at Faslane over Friday and Saturday were released on Saturday evening.

On Saturday 30 June at 12 noon, The Nottingham Congolese Community assembed to demonstrated against continued deportations. Starting from The Old Market Square, they marched through Nottingham, past the railway station and continued through the Meadows Queens Walk to the Meadows Park near the embankment.