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May Contain Notts: Aug - Sept '07

Notts vs Forest friendly game not so friendly, Colin Gunn gets another nine years, Gordon Ramsey is in town and Sherwood bear is no more...

Interview: Loay Hady

Loay Hady recounts the highs and lows of Fresher week in his debut novel, published by Nottingham's Stone Soup...

Gatecrasher preview Sept 2007

A Canadian In New Basford

"I’ve tried watching other English sports apart from football, but I just don’t see the appeal"

LeftLion Presents September 2007

Things We Loved About 80's Holidays in Skeggy

Chips, weeing in buckets, being sick down the back of your Dad's neck and the Jolly Fisherman. A tribute to our spiritual homeland in its darkest hour...

Interview: David Blayze

We put a few questions to the talented musician about his new solo career...

Interview: Swimming

"After branching out from recorder club I got really into making weird and wonderful sounds and writing songs."

Shelter From the Storm

What do fish and chips, Marks & Spencer, the Mini and the Bank of England have in common? Refugees...

Chris Summerlin

We've admired his work for some time now, so we put a few pressing questions to the artist behind Damn You!'s amazing artwork

Interview: Scout Niblett

Scout Niblett (aka Emma Louise Niblett) grew up in Nottingham, but moved away to America and became an international success...

Interview: Happy Mondays

"We’ve been followed around since we were eighteen. I’m forty five in August and a bit of an old fart now. I just did what most of the kids where I come from did"

Interview: Zoe Johnston

Zoe Johnston spent over a decade in electronica with the likes of Above and Beyond, Bent and Delerium. We found out what she's up to now...

Nottingham Forest and Notts County 2007-2008 Season Preview

After a short break running paper shops, icing down knees and chatting up gormless birds in Geisha, our city’s lower division footballers prepare for another season of cloggery and huffing. We asked NFFC Blog and Martin Naylor – our regular contributors to Left Brian and Left ‘Pie-On – to give us a rundown on what a gwan on both sides of t’Trent…

The 2007 Smoking Ban

The cigarette, the 'oily rag', the 'coffin nail'. The suffusion of pleasure and relief as you take that first draw...

Nottingham Bar Staff on the 2007 Smoking Ban

With the smoking ban coming into force, we asked a few of our favourite local barmen how it will affect their business

Percussion Spring Ball

Ten Reasons Why Slab Square Is Skill

Why Nottingham's Market Square is so much more than an Emo concentration camp...

Nottingham's Rebuilt Market Square Launched

"It has been the de facto centre of every major celebration in Nottingham - from VE Day to Forest coming home with the European Cup"

A Canadian In New Basford: Shottingham

When I tell people from Nottingham that I moved here from Canada, they assume I’m the craziest man on earth...

Interview: The Klaxons

"I don’t want to see the towns really. Horrible. Every town in the UK."

Interview: Vicky McClure & Andrew Shim

"It’s not a mirror image of his own life, but it is based around a period in his life when he had to make certain decisions and was faced with uncomfortable situations."

Preview: This Is England

"The quintessential Shane Meadows picture and also his most mature film yet"

Aim at Spectrum

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