Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Oladipo Victor Aiyegbayo a Nigerian national and resident of Nottingham; is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK today Friday 7th November @ 22.20 on Virgin Nigeria Airways flight VS651 from London Heathrow to Nigeria.

Events from Sumac / Veggies Diary at  http://www.sumac.org.uk/diary.htm

Welcome to the penultimate RiseUp!Radio show of 2008. Apologies to those who set their alarms for midnight on 31st of October in anticipation of the November show, a large chunk of our team have bean hit with extravavgant amounts of illness but we feel it will be worth the wait.

Jaques talks to the streets about their takes on our government, Doms takes us into the world of student politics and RiseUp!Radio goes to the Urban Harvest Festival and gets the low down from the windy miller. Also live music from local singer song writer My Crust, also some in studio discussion and Hilary gives us an introduction to his exciting new show ‘Looking into the Crisis’. Topped offed with a rendition of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech, read live last month in Market square as part of Black History Month. Bon Appétit!

Listen: #10 The November Show

A successful collective in Derby have inspired a call for a more creative winter period, as an antidote to the sickening and frantic consumption annually pushed around the time of some religious festival.

Armed police have responded to a burglary on
Albert Grove in Lenton this evening. One resident has described a startling story of those living in the house being held at knifepoint whilst their house was burgled.

At noon yesterday (Saturday) around 40 people braved rain and cold winds to protest outside the new open cast mining site at Lodge Farm, in Smalley Derbyshire.

On Friday 31 October, Nottingham's Critical Mass Bike Ride started from the Market Square on Halloween Night. Critical Mass is for everyone who rides a bike in Nottingham and wants to take part. Meeting at 5pm, this was the first in some time in the city, and was really well attended.

This evening 30th October, Shell, the notorious Oil Corporation undertook a corporate recruitment initiative at Nottingham University. Simultaneously a few students engaged in a little anti-corporate counter-recruitment initiative.

Monday 3/11/08 at Derby City Council House, Derby . See attachments and ring zena on 0116 253 1649

On Saturday November 1st, Riseup! Radio are hosting a skillshare for making and sharing audio recordings. Here’s an outline of what the day will look –and sound like.

Nottingham Is Crap blog which has been running for one month, has just received its 2,000 visitor.

Here is a letter from Simon Goodricke of the BNP, which was sent to the Anarchist Federation. Goodricke has a bit of a funny relationship with the police, you see... he used to be a detective, but then got put away for perverting the course of justice, and defrauding a pensioner of £1000. He was also arrested earlier this year,  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3828122.ece

Remember Saro-Wiwa are coming to Nottingham to mark the 13th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa for his resistance to multinational oil companies Shell and Chevron. Join us and get involved!

After a long break, Nottingham's critical mass will return to its usual slot: meet at 5pm in Market Square, on the last Friday of the month. This month's CM will take place this Friday (31st Oct).

Part of the Open Seminar Series offered by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham to be held at the University Staff Club, Conference Suite Monday 3rd November, 4:00 - 5:30 pm. All are welcome.

The first court case arising from the eviction of Bodge House, Shipley, where protesters occupied the site of the proposed open cast coal mine from June until August, collapsed today. Case dismissed.

Today protestors from Earth First! stopped work at an open-cast coal site for over
two hours – they ran onto the site and clambered on diggers & dumpers and held out
banners stopping the work safely. Some of the digger drivers were very friendly and
were glad to have a break as they work very long shifts, from 7am-6:30 with only
lunch & half hour breaks at 10 & 3. Today work had not been able to start till 10
as nature was fighting it's own corner, with rain drowning the site, and it was stopped again at 1 for 3 hours due to the protest.

Tennyson Hall, Forest Rd West, Radford has played an important role as a youth and community centre for over 20 years. NDC has owned this building since 2002 and is now seeking to sell claiming there are no other viable options. Is this the true face of regeneration? Tennyson Hall needs protecting and restoring back to the youths and community of this area.

Photos from the Picnic in the Park at Shipley Open Cast Site, Derbyshire

Details of the new Sumac Skillshare term of events!