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FourFour DJ Academy is Streaming A Virtual Festival Until 5am This Saturday

Even while staying in, the team at Four Four still manage to keep us up ‘till the early hours with their mammoth online festival featuring Charlie Four Four, Matt Guy, Luke Nukem, Ark-S, Colombian Frank and more...

Bless Our Hustle - The New Website for Self-Employed Creatives

Quite a few of us have had our lives turned upside-down or, more specifically, outside-in, over the last few weeks. But for some their work, as well as their lifestyle, has suffered...

A Self-Isolator in Notts

We hear how one Notts-based self-isolator is dealing with their new routine...

£129m Support Package for Nottingham Companies Begins

Nottingham City Council has now begun to make grant payments to thousands of businesses as part of a £129m package of support to local firms...

City Stylin' #24

We take to Nottingham's streets to ask you stylish folk about your lives...

Fundraising Festival Goes Online: We Shall Overcome Isolation Fest

Imagine a festival where the music is great, it’s dry and comfy, drinks are cheap and plentiful and the toilets are actually clean - our community editor Caroline Barry shares what’s in store at WSO Isolation Fest this weekend...

Your Disco Needs You! How to support Nottingham's LGBT+ Community

Overheard in Notts: Corona Special

If Big Baby don't laugh about it, Big Baby might cry... 

The Thompson Brothers on Self-Isolation, Keeping Calm and Carrying On

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Nottingham City Council Now Offering Food Parcel Service

An army of council workers has begun distributing food parcels to vulnerable people isolating in their homes in Nottingham...

25 Years Later: Before Sunrise

It's been over two decades since Richard Linklater began his Before trilogy, starting off with that fateful meeting on a train in Vienna... 

Framework Urgently Seeking Volunteers and Donations

Nottingham homeless-helping heroes are looking for a bit of help. If you have time to volunteer or some items you don't need you can put their way, please read on for details...

Nottingham City Council pledges to support businesses during COVID 19 pandemic

A message from Nottingham City Council to businesses in Nottingham at this time (and a few useful links so you know where to get the latest info from them)...

LeftLion Sofa Sessions

While we're all stuck at home, we’ve decided to open up our channels and for artists and performers to perform a live gig on our Facebook channel at 8pm each evening...

15 Netflix Hidden Gems To Keep You Entertained

Already blitzed through your favourite films, series and documentaries? Fear not self-isolators and social-distancers, we've got you covered with sixteen Netflix hidden gems that you may have missed...

15 Years Later: Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

It's been 15 years since Revenge of the Sith brought the prequels trilogy to a close. Not everyone's a fan, but over time this film has become a favourite for a lot of Star Wars fans, including our Screen Co-Editor, George White... 

Nottingham Independent Cafes and Restaurants Now Doing Delivery, Take-Out and Special Offers

This page is being constantly updated, so we will provide you with the latest foodie news and offers when we can....

Stay Strong Notts: LeftLion Covid-19 Update

Firstly, we’d like to express our sympathy and solidarity to all of you going through a tough time at the moment. Foremost, we wish you and all friends and family the best of health throughout. Stay strong Nottingham...

Object Walk: Charlotte Bryant's Final Letter Before Execution

We’ve teamed up with the National Justice Museum to put objects from the past into the hands of people of the present. This month, in a special extended edition to celebrate our history issue, we visited Usha Sood at Trent Chambers with the final letter written by Charlotte Bryant before her execution for murder in 1936…

The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play

For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...

Film Review: Spenser Confidential

Netflix fails to leave an impact with Mark Wahlberg's new comedy-thriller...

Marching Through Multimodal: Sensing Systems Revealed

Matt Woodham’s most ambitious project to date features a busy schedule of events happening every weekend this month. From exhibitions to talks and fully blown parties, here’s where you can catch ‘em all…

Brass Monkey Turns 20: Manager John McDermott Shares How…

We track down the general manager of the bar that’s open ‘till the early hours seven days a week, to learn why it hasn’t run out of steam, or rum, just yet…

Theatre Review: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Ooh Betty, he’s back! Ian Douglas went to see Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em at the Theatre Royal

6 Nottingham Soldiers and the Historical Turning Points They Found Themselves in

It’s a sad fact of history that the fate of nations was often decided on the field of battle. In amidst the smoke of firing muskets, the explosions of cannonballs, the clashing of swords and the screams of dead and dying men, history was written in blood, and the world as we now know it was formed. In a new six-part podcast series, we’re bringing to life the stories of six Nottingham soldiers who were witness to these historical turning points, uncovering how life took them from the streets of Nottingham to some of the most definitive battles in world history…