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Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

Notts Coach Takes Over World’s Worst International Football Team

Chris Smith, a Nottingham-based football coach, who has worked previously with the likes of Nottingham Forest and Lincoln City, is picking up his passport this month to head to Micronesia, a country spread over 600 islands off the Western Pacific Ocean, to embark on one spectacular footballing journey...

Nusic Future Session: Super Furniture

The winners of the 2016 Future Sound of Nottingham competition got in the studio to perform L.A.A and Coloured In Smiles, and to chat to the Nusic crew...

Rapper Scorzayzee on Gangsta Wraps, New EP Illa Scorz, and Nottingham Hip Hop

Rap’s Robin Hood is back with new EP Illa Scorz, and a ton of new merch designed by his eleven-year-old son to boot. We caught up with Scorzayzee for the lowdown on his latest release, plus the burning question of who’d win in a fight between the most famous fast food mascots…

A Brief History of World Snooker Championships in Nottingham

We take a dive into the geographical history of the World Snooker Championship, and dig up an old rivalry…

Pint of Science: The Plague, Teaching the Brain to Hear, and Survival of the Sexiest...

Last year, Nottingham was one of the host cities for the international science festival Pint of Science. This year, it’s back, and the launch night at The Canalhouse saw four speakers give us a taste of what’s to come…

200 Degrees Coffee Shops

On a wander through town, or on your way past the train station, you may have had a little chortle at the witty A-boards decorating the pavements of Flying Horse Walk and Carrington Street. These are the siren song of 200° Coffee shops, a major player to emerge on the Nottingham coffee scene over the last few years, opening not one, but two cafes within a mile of one another...

16 Bars to Slurp at for Nottingham Loves Cocktails Festival

LeftLion Magazine Appoints Bridie Squires As New Editor

Big things a gwarn up at LeftLion HQ. We’ve only gone and got oursens a new Editor. 

Meet the Man Selling Coffee from a Phonebox in Nottingham

Luke Thorpe has taken on an unusual venture – selling coffee out of a phonebox. The city’s gone coffee mad recently, so we went down to ask him a few questions about what he’s doing...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Juga-Naut, Grey Hairs, Shelter Point and more

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

Space the Band at Spanky Van Dykes in Photos

Shock, shock. Horror, horror. Everyone's favourite nineties Britpop (with a twist) band showed up in Nottingham after a lengthy hiatus, with new material as well as some golden oldies. We got down to take some snaps of them and local support band Prime...

Left Panther: The 2017 Elite League Ice Hockey Season Ends

The Elite League ice hockey season is over for another year. It finished in an exciting way for some teams, but certainly not for the Nottingham Panthers, who failed to qualify for the play-off final weekend at the National Ice Centre (NIC) which was ultimately won by the Sheffield Steelers…

The Thompson Brothers on Sitting at Traffic Lights

Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers on...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2016 Rundown

To say that 2016 was a mixed season for Nottinghamshire is a bit of an insult to things that usually come mixed, like a bag of nuts with only a couple of cashews...

Can Placenta Be a Model to Study Tumour Invasion? NTU's Dr Sivasubramaniam Explains at SciBar

Dr Sivasubramaniam from Nottingham Trent University joins us at SciBar to discuss whether placenta can be a model to study tumour invasion...

Future Sound of Nottingham 2017 Finalists Revealed in the New Nusic Podcast

Every year, the new Notts music champions host a showcase of the best upcoming talent the city has to offer. In the latest Nusic podcast, you can find out who's been selected for the final...

Nusic Future Session: Luke Peter Foster

One of Nottingham's finest up-and-comers did a music with the organisation championing the newbies. Here, Luke Peter Foster performs Floorboards and Everyday...

Street Tales: Tig Guocobauc (House of Caves)

The Nottingham Hidden History Team tell us the stories they never would have taught you at school...

Sound of the Lion #57

With Slumb Party, George Gadd, Clay Shaped Boy, Dark Mother, Whatsmahmood, Vega Bay, One Giant Causeway, Damn Craters and Scorzayzee...

9 Notts Music Albums, Reviewed: Scorzayzee, Clay Shaped Boy, Damn Craters and more

If you're from Nottingham and you want your tunes reviewed, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic...

Photos: Food and Trinket Market in Nottingham Market Square

Sun's out, fun's out. We got down to Nottingham's Market Square to check out what the latest market has to offer. Turns out, lots of tasty treats and beautiful bits...

Advertising Sectioned: Wine, Dine and Dance at The Parkside Club, c.1964

Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going on around and about the city for the past month...

Tommy Scott from Space Talks Playing Spanky Van Dyke's This Friday

Calling all Space cadets. We had a little chat with Tommy Scott, lead singer and lyrical master of the nineties-famous Liverpool legends Space, about the band’s new album, getting back together, their tip-top moments as a band and their upcoming gig in Spanky van Dykes...