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Proud to be Creative: An Interview With Write Pride Organiser Hayley Green

Representation is a bit of a buzz-word at the moment, so it's refreshing to see it done right. Nottingham-based poet and event organiser Hayley Green is the spearhead for the Write Pride Festival, a five-day event that celebrates some of Nottingham's best and brightest LGBTQIA creatives. We had a chat with her ahead of the festival to chat about the coming week.  

Ollie Green Quintet on Their Dream Performance Locations and Collaborators

Meet a professional Jazz Quintet from Nottingham, a group of young talented musicians that’ll have you dazzled with their impressive tunes and funky beats…

Robin Hood Vs Sheriff of Nottingham Rap Battle and Mark Grist at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

It was absolute carnage down at the Fox and Grapes for Poetry is Dead Good, as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival...

Live Music Review: Rob Green and Eric Bibb at Rescue Rooms Nottingham

“Now that we’re friends, I’m going to take my shoes off. Although, I don’t advise you do that… these floors get very sticky.”

Festival of Science and Curiosity: Discover George Green Review

The Festival of Science and Curiosity kicked off in Nottingham with Discover George Green at the Windmill Science Centre, in Sneinton…

Happy 230th Birthday Lord Byron! Here, Have a Beer.

Monday 22 January 2018 marks the 230th anniversary of the birth of Nottingham’s most notorious literary legend, the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet, Lord Byron...

Nusic Podcast #170 with Rob Green, Babe Punch, Tusk, Congi and more...

Left Magpie: Notts County News & Updates

Notts County's amazing run continues this month and our Colin takes us through all of the strange coincidences floating around Meadow Lane

Friday Food n Friends Begins at The Vine Community Centre in Hyson Green

Pamela Jones from Friday Food n Friends answers a few questions about the new community eating initiative running in Nottingham...

Herbert Kilpin Spesh: Robert Nieri

Robert Nieri is a charity lawyer by day, but he’s spent the best part of a decade researching and writing a book about a man called Herbert Kilpin. That and hanging out with the Milan glitterati. And us…

Left Panther: Nottingham Panthers News & Updates

As the Panthers continue to break records in Europe, our Sally gives us the low-down on the goings on at the NIC

Robin Hood Marathon 2017 in Photos

We got down to Victoria Embankment to check out the marathon madness...

Robin Hood Marathon 2017

It’s that time of year again, when thousands of athletics-mad (and generally just a little mad) runners converge on Nottingham for one of the biggest runs of the UK race calendar – the Ikano Bank Robin Hood Marathon and Half Marathon. Get your headbands and energy gels at the ready, because there’s still time to sign up for the 36^th edition on Sunday 24 September. 

Filmmaker David Lilley Talks Crowdfunding for Socks & Robbers

David Lilley, the brains behind Broadway Cinema's bi-monthly Short Stack short film night, is looking to raise £5,000 through a Kickstarter campaign for his new film Socks & Robbers.  Our Screen Editor, Ash Carter, talked to him about the project...

Make Your Own Robot with MeArm Pi

Mime Industries are a local company that create build-it-yourself robotic kits, and people can use them to learn to code. To support the release of their newest product, the MeArm Pi, they ran a Kickstarter campaign that was quickly oversubscribed, with 852 backers pledging a whopping £56,376. We sat down with company founder, Ben Pirt; a man who’s very handy with robot arms...

Nusic Podcast #158 with Rob Green, Super Furniture, Brotherhood, Bru-C and more

Stuff this in yer lugholes...

Nusic Podcast #157 with Rob Green, Arc Nade, Josh Wheatley and more

Those new, Notts music champions are back at it again with a podcast featuring the baddest talent in the city...

Hoodwinked: A Robin Hood Treasure Hunt Around Nottingham

Get geared up for 2018, when we'll be seeing all kinds of mysterious, hooded creatures knocking about...

Comedian Tom Green on Being Fired By Donald Trump

Since he first became famous as part of the nineties MTV Generation, Tom Green has been bossed around by Donald Trump, got married to Drew Barrymore, stood in for David Letterman, was impersonated by Eminem, survived cancer, made dozens of Hollywood films and humped a dead moose. This month, he’s quite literally on his way to a city near you to share some of that joy…

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Rob Green, Chroma Bay, Lone and more

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

Nusic's Future Sound of Nottingham 2017: Roe Green

Meet Roe Green, one of the semi-finalists of Nusic's FSN 2017...

6 Greatest Robin Hoods on Film and TV

Despite what people in Yorkshire might claim, Robin Hood is a Nottingham icon – he even has his own tram. Here, Ant and Gav, who don’t half love a list, take a look at the six best Robin Hoods in film and TV…

Street Tales: Hyson Green's Old General at Christmas

We've delve a little deeper into the history of our city's streets to give you the tales they never would have taught you at school...

Dining with the Homeless at Madrid's Robin Hood Social Restaurant

A Nottingham bloke living in Madrid has discovered a rare gem among the eatery ranks - Robin Hood. That’s right, the Spaniards have opened up a restaurant and social enterprise, where the homeless community can get themselves a decent meal. And it’s all down to one bloke...

Debs Does Nottingham Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival

Nottingham CAMRA's annual festival of beers, ales and ciders hit the castle once again and we sent our Debs there to drink all the ales she possibly could...