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Cycling in Nottingham: Citycard Bikes

This month, we look at the revolutionary 'Borisbikes' of the city and ask whether they're really worth pushing

Cycling in Nottingham: Cycle Paths

We go for a ride along the cycle paths and lanes of Nottingham - and it ain’t all pretty...

University of Nottingham Video Competition 2014

Help choose the welcome video, for incoming University of Nottingham students, from the four finalists

Danny Rhodes Author and Forest Fan on Hillsborough

Football in the eighties: Dilapidated stadia. Cages. Hooliganism. Belonging. Kenilworth Road. Heysel. Bradford. And then Hillsborough. Danny Rhodes’ third novel takes us back to 15 April 1989 and a match that would change the lives of fans forever...

Nottingham Music Venue Accessibility For People In Wheelchairs

Rob Maddison leads Spaceships Are Cool, drums for electro-funksters Yunioshi, and has a new musical project in the shape of Revenge of Calculon. A longtime performer and gig goer, he’s also been in a wheelchair since 2007. With Nottingham often being touted as having one of the UK’s best live music scenes, and with over eleven million registered disabled people in the country, we spoke to him about the accessibility of local venues and if there’s anything else that can be done to improve them...

Nottingham Creative Fringe

A showcase of arts, crafts, food, and loads more. Kirsty Fox and Laura Marano tell us about the Sneinton Market event

Interview: Stuart Pearce

Brought to the City Ground by Cloughie, Stuart Pearce played for Forest for twelve years, becoming their most capped international player and a stone cold cult favourite as he earned his ‘Psycho’ moniker. Ending his time here as a caretaker player-manager in 1997, he is now back as manager after proving his mettle with Manchester City, England under-21s and the 2012 Olympic Great Britain team. As the club prepares for an assault on promotion to the Premier League, we had a chat with the man himself…

Photos: Nottinghamshire Pride 2014

Nottinghamshire takes pride in Pride

Photos: Future Sound of Nottingham Final

All the acts that vied for the enviable opening slot of Splendour's main stage

Christopher Richardson talks Nottingham in the 19th Century

City Of Light is a book that celebrates Nottingham’s gobbiness during the nineteenth century, when we got up to all sorts in the name of education. We chatted to the author, Christopher Richardson, about the role of libraries, literacy and Luddites in the city’s history...

Nottingham Buskers

It's been ten years since Xylophone Man's death, so we look at some of the buskers knocking around the city streets today

Interview: Nottingham Outlaws

Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...

Look Back in Anger: The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On

A corrupt lying government, mass unemployment, a rigged energy market, police brutality and a country in the throes of civil war. Sound familiar? Harry Paterson takes us back to 1984 and unpacks the myths of the Miners’ Strike.

Nottingham Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2014

Every local vocal on the line-up at this year's event

A History of Nottingham on Television 1953-2014

Press Association - Nottingham in Pictures

A slice of Nottingham history direct from the archives

Don't Flop Raise the Bar in Nottingham

Don’t Flop have gone from strength to strength in the last five years to emerge as the UK’s biggest battle rap league. A forthcoming year of madness is on the cards for them and they’re dragging Nottingham into it with their newest event, Raise the Bar. Be there or be square...

The Lord of Milan - Herbert Kilpin

Did you know that a Lacemaker from Nottingham co-founded AC Milan? Read all about it...

A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014

In Celebration of International Women's Day 2014, WoLAN take us through the history of women's rights in the 20th and 21st century and Nottingham's part in the movement...

Major Oak Chorus

"There is an amazing raw power in hearing a song come together by sixty or so enthusiastic blokes all singing their hearts out"

Nottingham Cinema History

From his first experience of Saturday morning kids’ shows at the pictures, Rick Wilde became hooked on not only films but on how cinemas worked. Beginning his career in 1953 as a four teen-year-old, he worked as a projectionist until 2006. When he joined the business there was 52 picture houses around the city: from the crude conversions of the early 1900s, the gilded Victorian palaces of the 1910s, the art deco continentals of the 1930s, the sophisticated twin and triples of the 1960s and 1970s, to the multiplexes of today - he’s seen it all. A walking encyclopedia of Notts cinema shares his knowledge with us...

History of Nottingham's Savoy Cinema

On 7 November 1935, the Savoy Cinema opened its doors to screen its first film, Flirtation Walk, a musical romance starring Dick Powell. It was likely that only the Lenton locals took any notice of this event because, at that time, there were 52 other cinemas in and around Nottingham. So if it wasn’t that extraordinary then, what is its place in Nottingham today? And how in Cockleman’s name has it survived so long when the others have not?

Since 1843: NTU 170 Years Exhibition

NTU's School of Art and Design celebrates its 170th birthday and to mark the occasion they have invited back some of their most famous alumni to showcase their work in the Since 1843 exhibition…

Interview: Corey Neilson of Nottingham Panthers

Last season Corey Neilson led Nottingham Panthers to their most successful season ever. They did a clean sweep of all three trophies winning the regular season title, the Challenge Cup and the play-offs. Can they repeat the feat again this year?

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...