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Beat The Streets 2018 in Photos

DHP managed to raise £100,000 for Framework thanks to the efforts of everyone involved in Beat The Streets on Sunday last week. Well in! The charity can continue their work in helping the city's homeless community with a massive leg-up, all thanks to you lot. Any road, here are some snaps we took of the big day...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Last month's headlines from your beloved city...

Sharewear Are On A Mission To Clothe Nottingham

A fifth of the UK population now lives in poverty: that's 14 million people, including working-age adults, children and pensioners. We've seen the stories about the increased usage of food banks – with Trussell Trust citing 41,000 three-day packages being handed out in 2010 compared to 1.2 million in 2017 – but another problem, sitting under the radar, is the need for clothing. We sat down with Louise Cooke, founder and CEO of Sharewear, to find out more about her story, and what the organisation is doing to help both local and international communities...

Film Screening and Q&A Review: Loveless at Broadway Cinema

The Russians came to town for a Q&A on the screening of Loveless at Nottingham’s Broadway, as part of the cinema's Andrey Zvyagintsev season…

Theatre Review: Son of a Preacher Man

The Dusty Springfield musical that's nowt to do with Dusty Springfield

Light Night 2018: Meet The Artists

Meet the award winning eco artists and designers who upcycles waste materials into luminous scultpures...

Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity 2018 is Coming to Town

Thanks to STEMCity and Ignite, this month sees Nottingham being taken over by the cleverest clogs abaht. We had a word with the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity producer, Megan Shore, about what’s in store this year…

Music Video: Slumb Party - Questions

Check out the brand new song from our favourite skronky post-punkers...

Nusic Podcast #171 with Joey Costello, Pretty Babs, Dollie Demi, Ken Samson and more...

Paloma Faith Announced as Splendour 2018 Headliner

Splendour celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and what better way to celebrate than by pulling in one of the UK’s biggest singer-songwriters?

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Angel

Holy Bouncer come all the way from sunny Spain to play the latest I'm Not From London Fuzzbox night. The least we could do was to pop down to The Angel and have a listen.

Beat The Streets: The Ruffs Discuss Their Debut EP

Frontman Connor Spray answers our questions about the band's recent release as well as their appearance at this Sunday's fundraiser for homelessness charity Framework...

What's Life Like on the MA Creative Writing Course at NTU?

Tuesday Goacher talks boosting confidence with academic study...

Live Music Review: Hellcats Night at The Bodega

I’m Not From London’s all-ages night Hellcats kicks off the year with an impressive line-up at The Bodega

Beat the Streets: Crosa Rosa on the Festival Fundraiser and Gigs in South Korea

Beat the Streets - the all-day music festival fundraiser - is fast approaching. Here’s a quick lowdown on the event and a chat with one of the more hairy acts taking centre stage...

Nusic Future Session: Dollie Demi

One of Nottingham's finest up-and-comers did a music with the organisation championing the newbies...

Getting Published with NTU's MA Creative Writing Course

Kim Slater talks about what she gained from her time at Nottingham Trent University...

Shreya Sen-Handley's Memoirs of My Body: An Extract

"On top of boobs that bounce unhelpfully, wombs that immobilize once a month and bums that can’t be squeezed into, well, anything – tight spaces, tight pants – must we also have masses of hair obscuring our vision, tripping us up, yanked out by Baby, and the dickens to maintain?"

Film Review: The Greatest Showman

Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams team up for the all signing, all dancing biopic of circus pioneer P.T. Barnum

John Harvey's Not Tommy Johnson: An Extract Taken from Going Down Slow and Other Stories

"A wall-eyed mongrel barked as he entered, hackles raised, then backed away, growling, from the kick that failed to follow"

Rock Duo Haggard Cat Sign Deal with Earache Records

Big news for metal heads...

Left Panther: Nottingham Panthers News & Updates

The Panthers didn't have a particularly happy Christmas, was it too many mince pies? Our Sally gives us the low down

Sam Craven Talks Vertex Soccer and Helping Young Footballers

What happens when a youngster gets released from a football club? There was a time when all those years of hard work could have gone to waste but now thanks to Vertex Soccer, founded by former Notts County youth player Sam Craven, these players can now get a second chance.

Short Story Competition: City Arts at 40

They celebrated their fortieth birthday in September, and have been ringing in the celebrations ever since. We were promised a year-long schedule of exciting opportunities and events, and they haven’t disappointed…

From USA to Notts: Studying Creative Writing in the City

Ashley Silvey, from the USA, is a postgraduate student at NTU, and here tells us all about the hows and whys of studying in humble Nottingham...