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Want Two Free Tickets to Splendour? Read On...

Catch Busted, Billy Ocean and the Kaiser Chiefs at Splendour this year. For free...

Notts Film Collective Them Pesky Kids Talk Crowdfunding for Crime Short Ariella

Them Pesky Kids are a film collective from Notts. All Confetti students, the group are aiming to raise £10,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, to fund a new short, Ariella, and they're off to a decent start indeed. Our Screen Editor Ash Carter spoke to Them Pesky Kids' Michael Jobling about the project...

Why We Love Nottingham Cattle Market

If you’re looking for something, you’ll definitely find it down the Cattle Market. Unless it's cows you're after...

A Week Inside Labour's "Unwinnable" Broxtowe Campaign

A Labour campaigner gives us the inside scoop on Broxtowe's tense 2017 election battle...

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What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Daisy Godfrey, Birthrights, Little Barrie and more...

Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...

The Woman Sending Bras to Refugees

Persistent military conflicts in the Middle East have left millions of people lost and without. Imagine, just for a second, that Nottingham was plunged into war: hospitals bombed, schools and libraries gone, and your home destroyed. It's a situation you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, yet mainstream media sources continue to vilify some of the most desperate people on the planet who find themselves in that very situation today. One woman, Caroline Kerr of Bras Not Bombs, is on a mission to make a difference for the better...

5 Things to do in Nottingham This Week

Here's a load of stuff to do for the Nottingham popularse...

Theatre Review: M¡longa

A tango dance party, where friends or total strangers go to experience the joy and intimacy of tango

The Thompson Brothers on Not Being Tories

A History of Nottingham Open Tennis

Alongside Eastbourne and Queens, the Nottingham Open is one of the premier grass-court tournaments held in this country in the run-up to Wimbledon. But does success in Nottingham translate to success in London? We have a look back at past finalists to see how they got on…

Isaac at Lakeside's Wheee! Festival

Our cutest LeftLion vlogger Isaac went to Wheee! festival at The Lakeside Arts. He saw, he ran, he played, he laughed. If you don't find it adorable you have a heart of stone. Yes, stone.

General Election 2017: How Nottinghamshire Voted

How all the Nottinghamshire wards voted in yesterday's general election...

2017 General Election: How Nottingham City Voted

63% of Nottingham City's eligible voters turned out yesterday as all three seats were retained by the Labour party candidates...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Get your party pants on, cos Notts is poppin' this weekend...

A Nottingham Football Coach in Micronesia: Settling In

Nottingham-based football coach Chris Smith updates us on his travels in Micronesia, where he’s aiming to transform the world’s worst international football team...

Comedian Tom Green on Being Fired By Donald Trump

Since he first became famous as part of the nineties MTV Generation, Tom Green has been bossed around by Donald Trump, got married to Drew Barrymore, stood in for David Letterman, was impersonated by Eminem, survived cancer, made dozens of Hollywood films and humped a dead moose. This month, he’s quite literally on his way to a city near you to share some of that joy…

Overheard in Notts

The daftest things you lot say...

Dark Folk Artist Stacey McMullen on His New EP and Not Trusting Tories

5 Speakeasies that Should Exist in Nottingham

Many Nottinghamians enjoy a good booze. But imagine, just for one second, that you’ve found yersen in a time and a place that’s banned the juice, forbade the top-shelf goods, embargoed the plonk. Our Ben Knight has put together a list of places he can imagine making darn good speakeasies if the day of doom ever did rear its bonce...

Advertising Sectioned: The Photo Centre on Pelham Street c.1958

Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...

Nusic Podcast #155 with Wolf Club, Bone Cult, Stacey McMullen, and more

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Clare Burrage on The Dark Side of the Universe

For May's SciBar talk, Clare Burrage from the University of Nottingham – and from off the telly – joins us to talk about The Dark Side of the Universe...

Art Review: Lara Favaretto's Absolutely Nothing at Nottingham Contemporary

We got down to the latest art exhibition from Nottingham Contemporary...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club: May Round-Up

Our Gav gives us the lowdown on the cricket gossip from the past month...