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Beeston Set To Welcome New State-of-the-Art Multiplex Cinema

Mon 10 May 2021

Notts film fans will get the chance to check out a brand new eight-screen cinema at the end of next month...

Beeston Film Festival returns for its seventh year

Mon 08 Mar 2021

Beeston Film Festival is set to return for its seventh year.

Beeston Film Festival Has Added an LGBTQ+ Category

Mon 20 Jul 2020

After experiencing an increase in submissions, Beeston Film Festival is launching a brand new category for LGBT+ filmmakers in time for Pride 2020...

Beeston Film Festival Moves Online

Fri 20 Mar 2020

After the coronavirus outbreak the Beeston Film Festival will now be hosted on Facebook, meaning all the best international indie films will still be available for your viewing pleasure. We talk to John Currie, festival director, about what people can expect...

Preview: Beeston Film Festival

Fri 20 Mar 2020

Now in its sixth year, Beeston Film Festival has developed a reputation for showcasing the best in local, national and international cinema. Despite being an online-only event this year (for obvious reasons), the festival still promises to deliver a cracking line-up of films...

Oxjam Beeston Returns This Weekend

Wed 16 Oct 2019

The annual festival returns to the streets on Saturday, and there's a special guest performing...

Storytelling in Notts: Beeston Tales at the White Lion

Thu 12 Apr 2018

Our Lily got down to The White Lion in Beeston for a night of gripping storytelling, belly laughs and great company. Here she tells us all about this little-known monthly event and why she encourages the rest of us to check it out...

Lainy Malkani on Her Book Sugar, Sugar: Bittersweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers

Mon 09 Apr 2018

Dan Wright talks to Lainy Malkani about her first book Sugar, Sugar, the transition from journalist to novelist and how her cat helped her to overcome the loneliness of being a writer. Malkani offers advice to aspiring writers and reveals which of the stories in the book is her personal favourite…

Street Tales: The Emett Clock

Thu 22 Feb 2018

The very last in Joe Earp's series that reveals the hidden history of Nottingham's streets...

Lord Beestonia’s Nottingham Literature Facts

Fri 26 Jan 2018

Matt Turpin aka Lord Beestonia on Nottingham’s literary didja-knows...

SanTale Clause - Tales from Nottingham Santas

Sun 24 Dec 2017

Christmas is coming! But do we ever spare a thought for those on the Christmas frontline? Those boys in red, patrolling the social cubs and superstore grottos in an effort to bring Christmas antics for all? We asked a bunch of Nottingham Santas to tell us about the most memorable experiences of their careers. Unfortunately none of them were very memorable, so we made a load up instead...

Street Tales: The Nottingham Canal

Tue 05 Dec 2017

A look back at Nottingham's watery roads...

Oxjam Beeston 2017 is the Largest Oxjam Fundraiser in the UK

Sun 03 Dec 2017

The award-winning Oxjam Beeston Music Festival has broken its own fundraising record and become the largest Oxjam festival in 2017…

Street Tales: Lenton Priory

Fri 03 Nov 2017

What's that coming over the hill... is it a Monastery?

What To Expect At Oxjam Beeston 2017

Thu 12 Oct 2017

The lowdown on NG9's annual music extravaganza raising money for Oxfam, starting with the Oxjam Beeston Takeover this Saturday...

Street Tales: Kitty Hudson

Mon 02 Oct 2017

It's a gory one from our Joe Earp this month...

Street Tales: St. Mary De Roche

Mon 11 Sep 2017

The Nottingham caves are found in clusters, in various locations throughout the city. Perhaps the best known and most recognisable of these are those of Castle Rock...

Buzzword: A Poem for Beeston Competition

Mon 11 Sep 2017

Them lot over at The Beestonian have been running their very own poetry comp, looking for poems inspired by Beeston. With the deadline fast approaching, they’re on the look-out for some young scrawlers…

Street Tales: Shelford Tommy

Sun 20 Aug 2017

Nottingham has always boasted its fair share of local characters, legends and eccentrics. People like Benjamin Mayo, and more recent contenders like Frank Robinson, affectionately known as Xylophone Man, will go down in Nottingham history...

Advertising Sectioned: Tony Gardner, Your Labour & Co-Operative Candidate for Beeston (October 1974)

Wed 12 Jul 2017

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...

Street Tales: The Origins of Nottingham

Mon 10 Jul 2017

“Both for the buildings on the side of it, for the very great wideness of the streets, and the clean paving of it, it is the fairest without exception of all England.” – Said of Nottingham in the time of Henry VIII, c 1512

Street Tales: Spotlight on the River Trent

Mon 05 Jun 2017

The history lessons you'd never have got at school...

The Attenborough, Beeston, and Chilwell Arts Trail and The Importance of Artist Space

Sun 14 May 2017

At the beginning of June, there's gonna be an art trail in Nottingham South, and our Rita is here to tell us all about it, and provide a little context to the idea...

Street Tales: The Stone Man... A Nottingham Knight

Sat 06 May 2017

The history lessons you'd never have got at school...

Street Tales: Tig Guocobauc (House of Caves)

Sat 08 Apr 2017

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

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