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Left Magpie: Notts County Football Season Round-up

Mon 08 May 2017

Life at Meadow Lane is rarely dull and the 2016-17 season was no exception; the club doing its usual trick of taking a merry band of followers to the very edge of despair before, rather unusually, getting its shit together long before the traditional scramble to avoid relegation. The real intrigue, however, has been in the off-field matters...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2016 Rundown

Mon 10 Apr 2017

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...

Tash Bird at Hockley Hustle 2016

Sun 15 Jan 2017

More footage from the LeftLion stage at Nottingham's favourite charity music festival...

Keto at Hockley Hustle 2016

Sun 15 Jan 2017

More footage from the LeftLion stage at Nottingham's favourite charity music festival...

14 Music Albums to Stuff in Your Tabs

Fri 13 Jan 2017

If you're from Nottingham and you'd like your tunes reviewed, drop us a line at music@leftlion.co.uk

Live Music Review: Wigflex New Year's Eve 2016 Cage Party

Mon 09 Jan 2017

New Year’s Eve is a prime event in every party person’s calendar, and for the dancefloor-inclined community in Notts there was no place to be other than the Wigflex NYE Cage Party...

10 Proper Bob Films from 2016

Tue 03 Jan 2017

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding, and proper film buff Ash Carter, have put their heads together to reveal the bobbest of the bob, the shonkiest of the shonk, the gashest of the gash...

10 Awesome Films from 2016

Tue 03 Jan 2017

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding and top film buff Ash Carter have rounded up the best flicks from an otherwise dreary 2016

4 Books To Read Over The Festive Period

Mon 02 Jan 2017

One year ago, Nottingham became a UNESCO City of Literature. Since then, creative writing courses have been closed down, the DH Lawrence Heritage Centre has been sold off, and the fate of the Central Library lies in the hands of a property developer. Offsetting this is the Festival of Literature, the Line of Light installation on Station Street and, most importantly of all, the authors who keep banging out beautiful books...

20 Top Nottingham Music Releases of 2016

Fri 30 Dec 2016

A rundown of some of our favourite Nottingham-related music releases of the year, in alphabetical order...

Nottingham Cello Player Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Winning BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016

Tue 27 Dec 2016

Being crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016 is only one of the many accolades and awards that seventeen-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason has won. And, on top of those, he’s also bagged himself a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Not bad for an A-level student from Nottingham…

Nottingham in Photos: December 2016

Fri 09 Dec 2016

Some of the city's best photographers have been out there getting busy, making little photo babies...

Midlands Printmakers Open Exhibition 2016

Mon 05 Dec 2016

Malt Cross are host to an exhibition that showcases the cream of the printy crop from the Midlands...

Left Panther: November 2016

Wed 30 Nov 2016

November has been a Jekyll-and-Hyde month for the Nottingham Panthers, who had great success in Europe to progress to the final of the Continental Cup, while nosediving in the Elite League. The Panthers lost six consecutive league games resulting in a slump in the table to take them from second to fifth place, out of ten teams.

Bud and the B-sides at Hockley Hustle 2016

Fri 25 Nov 2016

More footage from the LeftLion stage at Nottingham's favourite charity music festival...

Manière des Bohémiens at Hockley Hustle 2016

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Nottingham gypsy jazz favourites Manière des Bohémiens play their song Latcho Drom on the LeftLion stage at Broadway Cinema, as part of the Hockley Hustle 2016 festival...