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A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop
Tue 05 Nov 2013A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.
Interview: Mother Nottingham Su Pollard
Thu 26 Sept 2013For the last decade she’s been our unofficial mascot. Su Pollard, or ‘Mother Nottingham’ as we like to call her. She made her name in TV series like Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M’Lord? She even got to number two in the UK singles charts in 1986 - a time when that actually meant something. She’s coming home this December as Theatre Royal have confirmed her for this year’s panto. We finally hooked her up with Nottingham’s Mr Sex...
Nottingham by Balloon
Fri 20 Sept 2013Notts as seen from the baskets of our intrepid local balloonists
Interview: Derek Randall
Fri 30 Aug 2013A whippet of a fielder and a fidgety, gifted batsman; Derek ‘Rags’ Randall was one of the best loved and most eccentric cricketers in the history of Nottinghamshire and England cricket.
Notts Caribbean Carnival 2013
Fri 23 Aug 2013Check out the costumes and fun from this year's Carnival
Interview: Stephanie Sirr on The Golden Years of Nottingham Playhouse
Fri 16 Aug 2013The Nottingham Playhouse celebrates fifty years at Wellington Circus this September. We spoke to Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr about the venue, their history and their plans to celebrate...
Interview: JT Soar
Mon 15 Jul 2013Using a DIY ethos, Joe, Phil and Nick from Nottingham punk band Plaids have turned an old fruit and veg warehouse at the back of Sneinton Market into a music and arts space. Run as a co-operative, together they’ve created a one-of-a-kind venue that’s already hosted bands from all over Europe and the US of A.
"Bring Back Mat" - How Artist Mat Collishaw Re-Connected With Nottingham
Fri 21 Jun 2013We speak with Matt at Backlit Studios to talk zoetropes, myth-making and the crucial influence of Wollaton Hall...
Nottingham Legends
Thu 23 May 2013After his iconic Byron Clough painting, Rikki Marr asked a group of artists to share their takes on other members of Notts royalty...
Notts TV: The First Interview
Sat 27 Apr 2013"There’ll be a fun element to this channel, but more than anything it’ll be relevant to where you live. There’s nothing like that at the moment"
Homelessness in Nottingham
Wed 17 Apr 2013Nottingham has kept its ‘rough sleeping’ numbers well below the national average. What’s happening differently here to elsewhere?
Interview: Andy Reid
Fri 08 Mar 2013He arrived at Forest at the turn of the century from Dublin, put in five years graft, moved up to the Premiership, was pinged around four different clubs, came back in 2011.
BamaLamaSingSong
Thu 21 Feb 2013A hark-back to old-school sing-songs round the pub joanna, karaoke for cowards, or a genuine communal event?
Dating in Nottingham
Thu 14 Feb 2013Wondering how to meet someone in Nottingham? We sent our community editor out to investigate speed dating, online dating and going to a meat market
May Contain Notts: Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Fri 08 Feb 2013"Winter Wonderland opens in the Square. Jesus Christ, what gibbon in the Council House stopped licking lead paint off a stick long enough"
Newstead Abbey in Photos
Thu 24 Jan 2013A nose around the former home of Lord Byron, a poet who was "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"
Nottingham Ball Bois
Thu 10 Jan 2013The Nottingham Ball Bois - your gay-friendly neighbourhood football team - are one of the few local clubs in a national league. But, as Scott Lawley (chair and full-back) and Craig Simpson (player-manager) point out, they do a lot more...
We Are The 25%: The Creative Quarter Launches
Sun 16 Dec 2012The Creative Quarter: another regeneration project, an attempt to catapult Nottingham into the big league of British cities, a massive hand-out for the city’s arty sorts, or the last attempt to drag the city out of its chain-shop morass? Toby Reid, Director of BioCity and Creative Quarter committee member, reveals the people who will be tasked with shaping the destiny of The Lace Market over the next decade - and don’t look now, but one of them could be you...
May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2012
Sun 02 Dec 2012The news diary that leaves its Christmas lights up all year round and doesn’t give a toss what the neighbours think
Roller Derby Teams in Nottingham
Fri 23 Nov 2012The Hellfire Harlots have just won team of the year at the Nottingham Sports Awards. We have a chat to them and the Nottingham Roller Girls about the sport
Interview: Don Masson
Thu 15 Nov 2012Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...
Notts County: 150 Years of History
Thu 01 Nov 2012A potted history of the last century and a half in the life of world football's oldest league club...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse
Tue 23 Oct 2012If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...
Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine
Tue 23 Oct 2012It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.
Goose Fair in the 1890s
Mon 01 Oct 2012Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…