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Left Stag: Dave Smith, Sandy Pate and Anglo Scottish Adventures in Ayr

With Burns Night on the horizon on Sunday 25 January, we invited our regular Notts County, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest football columnists to muse on the influence of Scotland in the history of their own clubs…

Below, Josh Osoro Pickering - our Mansfield Town specialist - tells a Mansfield-set story of Anglo-Scottish sport... 

Peggy’s Spotlight Feat Floral Pattern & Reece Soko-fogg Quartet

Cat Patrol Fundraiser

Terry Pathic’s Multi-coloured Swap Or No Swap

Ncf Comedy Presents Patrick Monahan: the Good, the Pat & the Ugly

Hetain Patel Mathroo Basha

Artist Hetain Patel on his new audio visual show and his early career spent in Notts

Hetain Patel is an English visual artist specialising in performance, sculpture, video and photography. Born and brought up in Bolton, his work is influenced by identity, his family's Indian heritage and mainstream Western pop culture. Hetain came to Nottingham in 2000 as a Fine Art student and spent more than a decade here before spreading his wings; exhibiting in Norway, India, Belgium and more. He’s back with his latest work as part of nottdance Festival 2025…

Patriot Rebel

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #14: Artist, Performer and Filmmaker Hetain Patel on Inspiration, Superheroes, Nationalism and Nottdance

This episode we are joined by artist, performer, filmmaker, sculptor and general arts polymath Hetain Patel to talk about his time in Notts, his work, superheroes, nationalism and quite a lot more...

Paw Patrol Live - the Great Pirate Adventure

Left Magpie: August 2025 The First Match

Julian McDougall is back with his thoughts on the opening game of the season (Notts County v Newport)...

Left Magpie July 2025: Going to the Match with Stuart Maynard, Martin Paterson and LS Lowry

Our monthly Notts County column is back after a hiatus and now penned by Julian McDougall, formerly of the beloved Notts County fanzine The Pie and currently of the excellent When Saturday Comes magazine. Here he muses about the appointment of Martin Paterson and the nature of supporters in the “Lowry-esque’ setting of Meadow Lane...

Needlepoint Felt Making With Roma Patel

Floral Pattern

Ian Peskett - Winging It Painfully (one Man's Path to Redemption) - Nottingham Comedy Festival

Jo Harrop – the Path Of a Tear Album Tour [jazz/soul/americana]

Medical Information Lecture - a Path to a Healthy Body and Soul Through the Teaching Of Bruno Groening.

Nottsvana: The Story of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain in Nottingham

Many would say Nirvana were the biggest band of the nineties, despite them only being active for the first half of it. However, not many people know about the links between the city of Nottingham and one of the biggest bands in rock history…

Rock City To House Ashes of Lemmy From Motorhead in New Statue

Rock City and the Derbyshire-based Bloodstock festival have announced that the legendary, late, great Lemmy Kilmister will be memorialised with a new bust containing his ashes appearing at both venues...

We Speak to Festival Booker Joe Patten Ahead of This Year’s Beat the Streets

Tomorrow, Beat the Streets Festival will return to the streets of Nottingham. We spoke to festival booker Joe Patten to gain his perspective on the festival’s continued success since 2018...

A Beer with the Boys Featuring Luke Fletcher, Samit Patel, Steven Mullaney and Jake Ball

Artists’ Film: Deborah Joyce Holman: Spill I-iii

Artists’ Film: Deborah Joyce Holman: Spill I-iii

Reclamation: Socially Engaged Art and Anti-racism In the Midlands by Jagdish Patel

pat mccarthy quartet ft. shannon reilly [sunday afternoon jazz]