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Council leader Coun Neghat Khan and MP Alex Norris with centre staff. Photo: Submitted

Bulwell community centre is first to join new council lease scheme

The uneven and dangerous road surface in Hardwick Ave, Skegby, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Pothole compensation paid to hundreds of disgruntled drivers in Nottinghamshire

Coun Jody Stoll

Nottinghamshire Council unveils funding plans to support communities

Nottinghamshire Council has published its first biodiversity duty report, setting out the wide-ranging actions it is taking to protect and enhance nature.

County council publishes first biodiversity duty report

Coun Mick Barton, county council leader.

Political Opinion: Council's big road repairs scheme is underway

Council Leader, Coun Mick Barton and Coun Bert Bingham, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment.

Nottinghamshire Council announces £122.5m investment into county's roads

Alex Norris is the Labour Member of Parliament for Nottingham North and Kimberley

Political opinion: Alex Norris MP - Nottingham’s finances back on track

Green Doctor Cath and Ahmed with heating controls

Young refugee gains confidence through charity support

Councillors have approved the building of 113 affordable homes near Nottingham City Hospital

Council approves affordable homes plan on edge of Bulwell

The Greater Nottinghamshire proposal for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)

Nottinghamshire leaders to submit proposals for Greater Nottinghamshire – Safer,...

An artist impression of how Central Walk could look

Plans to refresh Hucknall revealed
Ashfield District Council has submitted two planning applications outlining plans to regenerate Chapel Street and Central Walk in Hucknall.
Abbie Smith

County Hall

New options for County Hall are set to be drawn up to help plan for Local Govern...

Crowds watch acts on stage at Hucknall Christmas lights switch on

Christmas 2025 set to dazzle Ashfield

Land of Common Lane, near Hucknall, known locally as Misk Hills

Council to fight plans for 100 homes on Misk Hillls as developer appeals

Discarded electronic cigarette vapes that have been collected from roads and pavements shot over a pale concrete slab background

How to handle battery waste safely: Tips from skip hire expert

Coun Mick Barton, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council

Fears some Nottinghamshire County Council meetings could become ‘undemocratic’

Films in the Park promo poster

Films in the Park: Selston Country Park on Saturday 21 June

Aerial shot of houses.

Find out how much your council tax will go up from April 1

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Ashfield District Council was praised for employing COVID Information Officers who worked with businesses and retailers to ensure safety.

Five years on: “Ashfield District Council’s response to COVID saved lives” says ...

'Council spent £16m on a bridge to nowhere. It's a dangerous mess'

£16m bridge leads to 'dangerous' deep mud...it looks like a warzone

A car dealer must pay more than £9,000 in fines and costs after a visitor to his premises was seriously injured when he fell down an unprotected drop.

Man falls down 6ft drop and gets 'seriously' injured at car dealership

A road left so badly damaged by a landslip it was closed to cars can't be fixed properly - as it's still moving a YEAR later.

Britain's 'wonkiest road' destroyed by landslip finally set to reopen

Nottinghamshire County Council is looking for a company to deliver more care beds to young people in need across the county

Council to spend £11.5 million a year on children’s care provider

Image shared by Ashfield District Council on Facebook of the new Your Ashfield newspaper.

Council responds as residents slam Your Ashfield newspaper as 'waste of money'

Land Rover driver rams workman after ignoring road closure

Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing.

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it
Residents are scared that an “excessively tall” tree will fall and crush their homes - but the council is refusing to cut it down.
Lucinda Herbert

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

School photo by Oleksandr P on Pexels

Nottinghamshire County Council sets sights on a new future for school meals and ...

Cllr Sinead Anderson and Cllr Scott Carlton, Nottinghamshire County Council

Council working to address Violence Against Women and Girls

Cllr Sinead Anderson and Cllr Scott Carlton, Notts County Council

Council working to address Violence Against Women and Girls

Hucknall band Alberteen have released their first single in a year. Photo: Submitted

New single for Hucknall band formed at National School in the 80s

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare.

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

School classroom.

Watch: School absence fines rise details explained

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'.

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate
Dramatic video shows one of the last remaining tenants on a derelict housing estate dubbed 'Britain's Chernobyl'...who refuses to leave despite the council esrmarking it for demolition.
Lucinda Herbert

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

Lime trees growing either side of High Street in Henley-in-Arden, Warks., had their tops hacked off without notice leaving locals “devastated”.

Residents left furious after council "butchers" trees to save cash

Thousands of households to receive direct payments of up to £500

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

firefighters tackle blaze at Warbreck Hill Road

Watch: Firefighters tackle huge blaze at former DWP office

Ben Newman The Spudman, who has built an online community of two million people on TikTok selling jacket potatoes at his trailer in Tamworth.

Watch: Tiktok's Spudman gets kicked off his patch by local council

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

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