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The Thompsons on David Bowie, Elton John and Their Favourite Notts Band
Sun 25 Feb 2024Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
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A Busker in Notts
Fri 16 Feb 2024When I was about sixteen, I tried to go busking. I took my acoustic guitar, walked to Long Eaton's main high street, and awkwardly found a spot in front of a closed down shop. It was embarrassing before I'd even taken my guitar bag off, but I felt determined to stick with it. Gingerly, I lifted my guitar strap over my head, laid out my case on the ground, and looked up to find that people were already looking at me. I didn't know what to do…
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NET Shows How It's Helping Young People Get Around Notts
Tue 06 Feb 2024Alison Sweeney, head of marketing at Nottingham Express Transit (NET) - which run our trams in Nottingham – tells us all we need to know about the iconic transport that gets us from A-B.
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Left Stag: January 2024
Thu 01 Feb 2024On an amber wall, in one of the entrances that opens into the Quarry Lane End, is a quote by the great former-Liverpool manager, Bob Paisley – “If you’re in the penalty area and don’t know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we’ll discuss the options later”. How true these words now ring with Stags having done so only three times in the four January games since their triumphant away win at Stockport, on New Year’s Day...
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Overheard in Notts: January 2024
Wed 31 Jan 2024What have you lot been chatting so far in 2024? Here's this month's Overheard in Notts...
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From Light Night to Comedy in the Caves, Here’s What’s on in Nottingham This Week 29 January - 4 February
Sun 28 Jan 2024As February arrives, check out what you can do in Notts this week...
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Notts Shots: January 2024
Sat 27 Jan 2024Here are some snaps our talented photographers have taken this month...
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Music Reviews: January 2024
Fri 26 Jan 2024This month, we review music from Simon Waldram, Airport Dad, Pretty Windows, Chloe Rodgers, Penny Moon, 1st Blood and Armton...
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Notts Libraries Partner With the British Library for Fantasy Season
Thu 25 Jan 2024Working in tandem with the British Library and their current exhibition, ‘Fantasy: Realms of Imagination’, Inspire are bringing a whole programme of fanciful and folkloric entertainment to our city...
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Left Brian: January 2024
Thu 25 Jan 2024As grateful as I am for the chance to write about Forest in LeftLion each month, we seem to be in a period of the club’s history where even a daily column would struggle to cover all the various triumphs, tragedies, scandals and melodramas. So how to do this past month justice and resist the siren call of the bullet point list? Strap in, here goes...
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Artist Harry Mayston on Having His Work Exhibited at Surface Gallery
Wed 24 Jan 2024After graduating with a degree in fine art from Loughborough University, artist Harry Mayston went on to have his work exhibited in Surface Gallery’s recent exhibition Vessel after he, by chance, was asked to give the team behind the gallery a tour of the Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts degree show. Following the exhibition, he tells us more about the nature of his piece Blue Things, which was made up of 76 cyanotype prints, and the plans he has for the future of his art practice…
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Notts' Hidden Library Could Be Expanding
Tue 23 Jan 2024Bromley House library, a subscription library founded over two hundred years ago, has just secured £70,000 to explore expanding its premises...
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An Outreach Worker in Notts
Sun 21 Jan 2024Formed in 2001, Framework is an organisation supporting vulnerable people, with housing support, job hunting, mental health, and recovery services for drugs and alcohol. Their primary focus, though, is to try and get people off the streets, and into more permanent accommodation. LeftLion caught up with one of their street outreach workers, who explains the ins and outs of their day to day…
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From Art Exhibition Launches to Beat The Streets Festival: Here's What's on in Notts 22 - 28 January 2024
Sun 21 Jan 2024This week in Nottingham, enjoy live music in aid of a great cause at Beat The Streets, celebrate the opening of new exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, or join the National Holocaust Museum for Holocaust Memorial Day...
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We Caught up With Colin Mitchell, Owner of Nottingham’s Oldest Caribbean Supermarket on His Decision to Sell the Business
Tue 16 Jan 2024After almost five decades of selling Caribbean food in Nottingham, family business Mitchell's Supermarket on Alfreton Road is up for sale. We spoke to owner Colin Mitchell about his decision to sell Mitchell’s Supermarket, and what this will mean for the local community...
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Comedy, Ceilidhs, DnB, and 90s Throwbacks: Here's What's on in Notts 15 - 21 January 2024
Sun 14 Jan 2024Comedy, dancing and music are the perfect blend for throwing off the January blues, and it's all happening this week in Nottingham...
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Kicking Off the New Year in Notts - Theatre, Music and Meeting New People: Here’s What’s on in Notts 8 - 14 January
Sun 07 Jan 2024If it's your resolution to get out more in 2024, kick off your year with some theatre, cabaret and social events to meet new people in Notts this week...
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