Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

A chance to experience the worlds oldest and largest allotment gardens. Join a site tour or workshop, or just relax and enjoy this fantastic green space.

On Monday 5th June, 100s of students demonstrated at the University of Nottingham to call for a swift resolution of the current dispute between management and staff.

Nottingham Arboretum celebrates with a Green Festival embracing all things green. Live bands, fun for children and sustainable produce. Stalls, including crafts, plants, local produce, energy conservation demonstrations, wind and solar power, social struggles and human rights issues etc and plenty of other organic, eco-friendly activities.

Nottingham Arboretum celebrates with a Green Festival embracing all things green. Live bands, fun for children and sustainable produce. Stalls, including crafts, plants, local produce, energy conservation demonstrations, wind and solar power, social struggles and human rights issues etc and plenty of other organic, eco-friendly activities.

Cassin Monnet Schuman, the East Midlands law firm headed by Human Rights lawyer, John Rhys-Burgess has obtained an injunction against the Home Secretary to prevent the National Asylum Support Service from evicting a Sudanese asylum seeker from his accomodation and cancelling his benefits..

This another yet another event in Sneinton event, designed to draw attention to Nottingham's lamentable lack of recycling facilities. This event was to highlight this fact, and further, to show that many items, thoughtlessly discarded, might have a 'second life' if people just thought about it.

Sounds On The Downs,
Nottingham's Green Fields Festival
Wednesday 7th June from 2pm - 10pm,
on Nottingham University Campus Downs

As you can see from the the links below, other 'multi-bike' and trailers have been made.

This is yet another example, of some inovative work, that I hope may inspire others to start their own projects.

Here are a series of pictures, to show some of the important features, and progress.

Simple eh?

Arboretum Festival Weekend :: The pictures

A free event, held in the Arboretum Park, Nottingham.

Held over two days on Saturday 27th to Suncay 28th May.

With live bands, children's activities and a variety of craft stalls and street artists.

On Saturday 18th March, photographer and Indymedia contributor Alan Lodge - or Tash - was arrested after taking photos of armed police in public. Tash continued to deny the charge of wilfully obstructing a police officer at Nottingham Magistrates Court on Tuesday the 23rd May. A trial date has now been set for the 17th October

You might have missed this little item in the mainstream news this week.

someone made contact today to say that they had found the bike and are on their way to returning it
hip hip horray

This is your opportunity to support the excellent work being carried out in China by the Animals Asia Foundation - excellent food - interesting conversation - and auction

If you’ve been following the reports on Notts Indymedia you will know about Nottingham’s version of Rinky-Dink that we have been building over several months. (if not see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/337654.html)

A graduate recruitment fair featuring the armed forces, Lockheed Martin, and the British Nuclear Group, is coming to the East Midlands Conference Centre (University Park) on 2nd June, 11am - 3.30pm.

Hands Across the Hill :: Sharphill Woods, Nottingham. Piccys

Local people call for protest against the proposed Sharphill housing development in West Bridgford.

On Sunday (21st May) at 11am folks met up at Sharphill Woods and joined hands for the 'Hands across the Hill' protest.

A night of info about the latest US crackdown on radical green activists is planned, for sat 27th May, at the Sumac in Nottingham. Entertainments will follow.

today local people showed their opposition to green belt development.

A brilliant new website has emerged. Check it out at
www.savesharphill.co.uk. Well done whoever made it! Talk about a giant leap...

Sustainable Communities Bill Public Meeting

Date: 25th May 2006
Time: 7:30pm (duration ~ 2 hours)
Venue: Queens Walk Community Centre, Queens Walk, The Meadows, Notts NG2 2DG

Have you noticed the following things happening in your community?:

Closure of local independent shops

Closure of the local Post Office

Closure of the local bank branch

Decline of local street markets

Closure of the local pub

Closure of local services e.g. health centres

Green spaces being built on

More traffic and less people walking on the streets

Less public transport services

More "clone" branded shops and huge superstores

Local Works is the campaign that aims to change this situation that is known as Ghost Town Britain. Instead we want local sustainability, which has these 4 measurements:

1. Thriving local economies
2. Environmental protection
3. Social inclusion
4. Active democratic participation

Please come along to the Public Meeting to discuss the Sustainable Communities Bill. Guest speakers include Alan Simpson MP and Jon Beresford from NAIL ) Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill)