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• Nottingham Post published Missing Arnold teenager returns home safe

  26-01-2015 23:09
  
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• BenIreland published Volunteers flock to recruitment event as Nottinghamshire Police...

  26-01-2015 22:25
  
  POTENTIAL new recruits took the first steps to becoming voluntary members of the police as Nottinghamshire's force launched a drive for new volunteers.Around 160 special constables are needed to raise the number of unpaid police working in Nottinghamshire to 300 by April next year.More than 60 people attended a recruitment event at County Hall in West Bridgford on Monday, January 26, to learn more, have a fitness test and ask questions about life as a special.Third-year biology student
  
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• Squash: Nick Matthew to miss Benz-Bavarian Duffield match at Nottingham - Derby Telegraph

  26-01-2015 22:03
  
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  Squash: Nick Matthew to miss Benz-Bavarian Duffield match at Nottingham
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  NICK Matthew will not be able to lead Benz-Bavarian Duffield into the second half of the Premier Squash League season. The three-time world champion had been named as number one in the Duffield side to travel to Nottingham on Tuesday but has had to ...
  
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• BenIreland published Footballers swap grass for fire as they launch fundraising...

  26-01-2015 20:26
  FOOTBALLERS will be un-lacing their boots as they prepare to swap grass for fire in a fundraising push for their team.Players and staff from Arnold Ladies FC are walking on fire at the club's Eagle Valley Stadium on March 25.It forms part of the club's ongoing fundraising campaign as they bid to secure the future prosperity of the club.Captain Jenny Lorimer said she hoped the firewalk would help the club both on and off the pitch."When we do these activities it helps us create a really good
  
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• Nottingham pet owners warned after increase in obese cats and dogs - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 19:55
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  Nottingham pet owners warned after increase in obese cats and dogs
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  A PORKY feline who got stuck in his own cat flap is just one of an increasing number of fat pets in Nottingham. Animal obesity is on the increase and one in three vets told Direct Line Pet Insurance that more than half of all dogs they treat are ...
  
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• sherdley published Builder's single stamp broke woman's ribs in city bar brawl

  26-01-2015 19:38
  
  A trainee builder has "paid the price" for involving herself in an argument and stamping on a woman in a Nottingham city bar brawl.Nika Robinson broke two of the victim's ribs after she used her foot on her chest inside @d2 in Lower Parliament Street.Robinson was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, January 26, for her role in the attack. But a judge spared her from prison – because the offence was more than a year ago and she pleaded guilty at the first...
  
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• sherdley commented Builder's single stamp broke woman's ribs in city bar brawl

  26-01-2015 19:38
  
  A trainee builder has "paid the price" for involving herself in an argument and stamping on a woman in a Nottingham city bar brawl.Nika Robinson broke two of the victim's ribs after she used her foot on her chest inside @d2 in Lower Parliament Street.Robinson was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, January 26, for her role in the attack. But a judge spared her from prison – because the offence was more than a year ago and she pleaded guilty at the first...
  
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• LucyBudge published Nottingham pet owners warned after increase in obese cats and...

  26-01-2015 19:32
  
  A PORKY feline who got stuck in his own cat flap is just one of an increasing number of fat pets in Nottingham.Animal obesity is on the increase and one in three vets told Direct Line Pet Insurance that more than half of all dogs they treat are clinically obese.For Radcliffe-on-Trent vet Erica Coleman-Field, the increase in fat pets is an issue that needs to be raised.But the animal expert, who owns Vets Who Care, said that the biggest overeaters were her feline patients.She said: "I'd
  
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• Paul Taylor column: Stephen McLaughlin deserves chance to prove himself at ... - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 19:28
  
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  Back in January 2013, Alex McLeish had high hopes for a young man who had just arrived at Nottingham Forest from over the Irish Sea. The then Reds manager felt convinced that the 22-year-old player, signed from Derry City, possessed enough quality to ...
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• Nottingham Forest will battle Burnley for FA Youth Cup quarter-final spot - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 19:28
  
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  Nottingham Forest will battle Burnley for FA Youth Cup quarter-final spot
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  Nottingham Forest will be fighting to secure a place in the quarter-final of the FA Youth Cup when they face Burnley at the City Ground tomorrow night (7pm). Coach Kevin MacDonald's side take on the Clarets in the last 16 and will hope for a repeat of ...
  
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• Arrest in relation to sexual assault at Nottingham night club - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 19:28
  
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  Arrest in relation to sexual assault at Nottingham night club
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  A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault at a nightclub in Nottingham. An 18-year-old woman was attacked at NG1 club, in Lower Parliament Street, just before 4am on September 20 last year. The man has been bailed ...
  
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• Nottingham Post published Paul Taylor column: Stephen McLaughlin deserves chance to prove...

  26-01-2015 18:57
  
  Back in January 2013, Alex McLeish had high hopes for a young man who had just arrived at Nottingham Forest from over the Irish Sea.The then Reds manager felt convinced that the 22-year-old player, signed from Derry City, possessed enough quality to follow in the footsteps of another product of the Irish club's youth set up."Keith Burt has told me all about the kid and he is excited by him," said McLeish at the time, after giving the green light to a deal arranged by previous boss Sean
  
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• Nottingham Post commented Paul Taylor column: Stephen McLaughlin deserves chance to prove...

  26-01-2015 18:57
  
  Back in January 2013, Alex McLeish had high hopes for a young man who had just arrived at Nottingham Forest from over the Irish Sea.The then Reds manager felt convinced that the 22-year-old player, signed from Derry City, possessed enough quality to follow in the footsteps of another product of the Irish club's youth set up."Keith Burt has told me all about the kid and he is excited by him," said McLeish at the time, after giving the green light to a deal arranged by previous boss Sean
  
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• RachelGorman published West Bridgford's historic park lodge to be turned into offices

  26-01-2015 18:54
  Property developers hope to turn a historic park lodge into offices after forking out £345,000 – nearly twice the asking price – for the formerly council-owned building.Paragon Property Development Company, which bought the property at auction, wants permission to add a glass entrance lobby to the Grade-II listed building off Central Avenue, West Bridgford.The lodge was once used as Rushcliffe Community and Voluntary Services offices and most recently as a church but.
  
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• RachelGorman commented West Bridgford's historic park lodge to be turned into offices

  26-01-2015 18:54
  
  Property developers hope to turn a historic park lodge into offices after forking out £345,000 – nearly twice the asking price – for the formerly council-owned building.Paragon Property Development Company, which bought the property at auction, wants permission to add a glass entrance lobby to the Grade-II listed building off Central Avenue, West Bridgford.The lodge was once used as Rushcliffe Community and Voluntary Services offices and most recently as a church but.
  
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• Nottingham Post published Nottingham Forest will battle Burnley for FA Youth Cup quarter-fi...

  26-01-2015 18:46
  Nottingham Forest will be fighting to secure a place in the quarter-final of the FA Youth Cup when they face Burnley at the City Ground tomorrow night (7pm).Coach Kevin MacDonald's side take on the Clarets in the last 16 and will hope for a repeat of their dramatic performance at West Brom in the previous round.Striker Tyler Walker, son of Reds legend Des, bagged an impressive hat-trick at the Hawthorns, to see off Premier League opposition.Forest have high hopes for a number of...
  
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• London art exhibition pays tribute to Nottingham's Samuel Morley - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 18:41
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  London art exhibition pays tribute to Nottingham's Samuel Morley
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  Nottingham's Backlit gallery has taken an exhibition about the city's Victorian mayor, MP, philanthropist and social reformer, Samuel Morley to London... Samuel Morley was many things during the Victorian era but an artist he wasn't. And yet, Backlit ...
  
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• Banning sweet sellers outside schools in Nottingham has been a success - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 18:41
  
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  Banning sweet sellers outside schools in Nottingham has been a success
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  The clampdown was brought into force by Nottingham City Council after complaints from the schools. The new rules mean traders have to apply for permission to sell goods in the streets outside Bulwell Academy, Ellis Guilford School, in Basford, and ...
  
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• VIDEO: The man who ate ants to survive

  26-01-2015 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
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• Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham Business Park - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 17:48
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  Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham Business Park
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  Six caravans moved on to Nottingham Business Park, off Woodhouse Way near Strelley, over the weekend. Rubbish has been strewn across the car park since the travellers, who also brought a van and a large car, moved in. Wilson Bowden Developments ...
  
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• Nottingham residents suffer from stress more than any other UK city, according ... - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 17:48
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  Nottingham residents suffer from stress more than any other UK city, according ...
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  Chocolate, exercise and massages could be the perfect tonic to relax - as Nottingham is named the most stressed city in Britain. A survey showed that 67 per cent of residents are struggling with work-related stress, while 58 per cent suffer from a lack ...
  
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• JonPritchard published Arrest in relation to sexual assault at Nottingham night club

  26-01-2015 17:43
  
  A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault at a nightclub in Nottingham.An 18-year-old woman was attacked at NG1 club, in Lower Parliament Street, just before 4am on September 20 last year.The man has been bailed pending further inquiries, but police are still trying to trace two other men who were in the club.Officers investigating the assault believe the two men may have witnessed the assault.Both are Asian, one with black hair and a goatee...
  
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• NottmPostEG published Film Focus: Colin Firth on his latest film Kingsman: The Secret...

  26-01-2015 17:34
  When Colin Firth was injured during production on his latest movie, it wasn't a medic that was called over, it was a photographer.
  "Every time I got a bruise or a broken tooth, rather than get the nurse in, it was, 'Get the cameras in, so we can show you're going through it!'" recalls the 54-year-old.
  That's because in his latest incarnation, the man known to millions as Mr Darcy, from both the Pride And Prejudice TV series and Bridget Jones movies, has turned action spy and martial...
  
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• JonPritchard published Arnold teenage missing from home

  26-01-2015 17:32
  
  Police are appealing for help in tracing a 13-year-old girl who has gone missing from her home in Arnold.Bethany McIntyre failed to return home at 10pm on Sunday.She is described as white, slim built, with brown hair, often tied up in a bun. She was last seen wearing a tartan jacket, with black sleeves, black leggings and white trainers.Anyone with information on Bethany's whereabouts should contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
  
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• DanRobinson published Government agents find 'legal highs' at Nottinghamshire prison...

  26-01-2015 17:29
  
  Government agents raided a Nottinghamshire prison as park of a crackdown on "legal highs".
  About 60 National Crime Agency officers searched cells at HMP Ranby, near Retford, as well as vehicles and visitors entering the site last week.
  Sniffer dogs were used in the operation and they uncovered a number of packages of "legal highs" alongside smaller amounts of cannabis, mobile phones and weapons.
  The operation was part of a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) bid to intercept supplies of the...
  
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• Controversy Over Closure Of Nottingham University Creative Writing Course - Huffington Post UK

  26-01-2015 17:00
  
  Controversy Over Closure Of Nottingham University Creative Writing Course
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  Nottingham University students are fuming following the decision to close a popular course with immediate effect - after officials said they couldn't find a replacement for a former lecturer. On Christmas Eve, current students were informed by letter ...
  
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• JonPritchard published Six caravans pitch up as travellers move onto Nottingham Business...

  26-01-2015 17:00
  Travellers have returned to Nottingham, setting up at a business park in the city.Six caravans moved on to Nottingham Business Park, off Woodhouse Way near Strelley, over the weekend.Rubbish has been strewn across the car park since the travellers, who also brought a van and a large car, moved in.Wilson Bowden Developments, which owns the site, said it will take action to remove the travellers from the car park.Travellers have parked their caravans on the space used for employees.
  
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• Man found hanging from window after trying to 'break into Nottingham Trent ... - Daily Mail

  26-01-2015 16:52
  
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  Man found hanging from window after trying to 'break into Nottingham Trent ...
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  A suspected burglar spent five hours hanging upside down from a window after apparently getting trapped when trying to break into a university. The man got stuck while attempting to squeeze through a 30in-wide window at Nottingham Trent University in ...
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• WIN a Meet & Greet with the X Factor finalists in Nottingham - Nottingham Post

  26-01-2015 16:51
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  WIN a Meet & Greet with the X Factor finalists in Nottingham
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  Terms and conditions: Entrants must be aged 18 or over and reside within the Nottingham Post circulation area. Employees and immediate family members of the Nottingham Post Media Group and Local World Ltd are ineligible to enter. The first complete ...
  
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• NottmPostEG published Film review: Kingsman: The Secret Service (15)

  26-01-2015 16:44
  
  Directed at full pelt by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service is an outrageous James Bond-esque caper with an unpleasant and sadistic streak.
  This hare-brained tale about a secret organisation of impeccably tailored British agents dedicated to world peace lampoons the conventions of the spy genre with an arched eyebrow.
  "Nowadays, they're all a little serious for my taste," opines Colin Firth's lead operative about modern-day spy films, one of several self-referential winks in.
  
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• DanRobinson published Nottingham residents suffer from stress more than any other UK...

  26-01-2015 16:43
  
  Chocolate, exercise and massages could be the perfect tonic to relax - as Nottingham is named the most stressed city in Britain. A survey showed that 67 per cent of residents are struggling with work-related stress, while 58 per cent suffer from a lack of sleep and almost half have financial problems.Psychologists and GPs have said January is the most stressful month of the year but believe it is important to find time for ourselves to prevent burnout.Philip Martin, owner of Martin's...
  
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• DanRobinson commented Nottingham residents suffer from stress more than any other UK...

  26-01-2015 16:43
  
  Chocolate, exercise and massages could be the perfect tonic to relax - as Nottingham is named the most stressed city in Britain. A survey showed that 67 per cent of residents are struggling with work-related stress, while 58 per cent suffer from a lack of sleep and almost half have financial problems.Psychologists and GPs have said January is the most stressful month of the year but believe it is important to find time for ourselves to prevent burnout.Philip Martin, owner of Martin's...
  
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• Nottingham Post published Notts County Ladies 2015 fixtures: Chelsea at home first up on...

  26-01-2015 16:21
  Chelsea are coming to Meadow Lane in March as part of the big kick-off for the FA WSL 2015 season.Notts County Ladies play host to Chelsea on Sunday, March 29 with a 5pm kick off for their first Women's Super league clash of the season.The season actually kicks off a week earlier for the Lady Pies, who will play in the fifth round of the FA Cup on March 22 – with an opponent to be decided earlier that month following the conclusion of the fourth round.Rick Passmoor's side did well...
  
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• Diver tells of river body discovery

  26-01-2015 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body of a missing student from Bottesford near the Nottinghamshire border was found in the River Wear by a diver who had travelled from Scotland to help in the search.
  
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• Barry_Cooper published WIN a Meet & Greet with the X Factor finalists in Nottingham

  26-01-2015 16:14
  
  The Nottingham Post has teamed up with TalkTalk to give our readers the chance to win a Meet & Greet with all eight finalists.
  
  One lucky winner and a friend will win tickets for the show and the chance to meet the finalists in person.
  
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  You've joined them on the journey from the judges' room to the arena, been on the edge of your sofa during the dramatic six-chair...
  
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• Nottingham Post published County Schools football round-up: Joy for Becket and Barnby Road

  26-01-2015 16:03
  Becket School from Wilford reached the semi-final of the English Schools' FA/Play Station Open Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Downend School (Bristol and South Gloucestershire).Becket had the advantage of the wind in the first half but with the ball frequently running away from the forwards they seldom troubled the visiting keeper.Downend had the two clearest chances, the second of which being bravely saved at the feet of a forward by Nick Burrows, who had to leave the field...
  
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• Nottingham Post published Precision NSL football round-up: Wollaton claim victory over...

  26-01-2015 16:02
  
  Wollaton have moved level on points with Selston at the top of the Precision NSL Senior Division after the two sides met at the WSA.Wollaton ran out 1-0 winners courtesy of an early strike from Ryan Bowen.The hosts had to see out the last five minutes of the match with ten men after James McKeever received his second yellow card.Kevin Walker scored a hat-trick and Aaron Large grabbed two in West Bridgford's 8-1 win at Beeston.Alex Hoctor, Tom Coole and Chris Atkins were also on target for...
  
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• RachelGorman published 5K a day dad finishes year long challenge for Nottinghamshire...

  26-01-2015 16:01
  After running more than 2,155 kilometres – the distance from Nottingham to Casablanca – you could forgive photographer Andy Wallis for wanting to take it easy.But instead the dad-of-three decided to end his year-long challenge, of running at least 5K a day in aid of Nottinghamshire Hospice, with a half marathon from his home in Stapleford to the charity's head quarters in Mapperley.Stepping over the finish line on Monday January 26 with three of his closest friends, the...
  
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• Nottingham Post published Central Midlands League round-up: Real United suffer penalty...

  26-01-2015 16:01
  
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• Nottingham Post published Midland Amateur Alliance football round-up: Bestwood and...

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• Nottingham Post published City Schools football round-up: Boys suffer Coventry defeat

  26-01-2015 15:58
  
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• Nottingham Post published EMPAL Sunday football round-up:

  26-01-2015 15:53
  
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• Nottingham Post published Notts Sunday League football round-up: Old Colonial net seven as...

  26-01-2015 15:52
  
  In the Notts Sunday League, there was a humdinger of a first half at Premier Premier leaders Old Colonial, who were three ahead after just 20 minutes against Hucknall Town Sunday.There were two from leading scorer Scott Litchfield and the other by Ryan Perkins, but lowly Hucknall were not going to take this punishment lying down and Alex Stolarski and Dan Draycott dramatically reduced the arrears before the half hour mark.But Colonial struck again through Litchfield, to complete a first half...
  
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• Nottingham Post published Alfreton Sunday League football round-up: Morledge on target to...

  26-01-2015 15:51
  
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• Nottingham Post published Notts Youth League football round-up for January 24 and 25

  26-01-2015 15:50
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• jonmattos published Wicked Whispers: Remember Mickael Antoine-Curier? Well he's...

  26-01-2015 15:43
  
  The constant thirst for transfer tit bits among all football fans during the January transfer window means that sometimes even the most unlikely rumours have you second guessing.Just last week the Post reported about a bizarre piece of gossip linking Shaun Wright-Phillips with a move to Notts County, a story that drew thousands of readers in wondering whether there might be even a smidgeon of truth to it – which of course there wasn't.And so when the Guardian's Ewan Murray sent out...
  
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• NottmPostEG published London art exhibition pays tribute to Nottingham's Samuel Morley

  26-01-2015 15:37
  Nottingham's Backlit gallery has taken an exhibition about the city's Victorian mayor, MP, philanthropist and social reformer, Samuel Morley to London...
  
  Samuel Morley was many things during the Victorian era but an artist he wasn't.
  And yet, Backlit art gallery has drawn together the work of five artists to celebrate the life of the Nottingham mayor, MP, philanthropist and social reformer for an exhibition in London.
  House of the Flying Wheel at Morley College explores his legacy through the..
  
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• EllieCullen published More snow on the way for Nottinghamshire - as well as bitterly...

  26-01-2015 15:08
  
  Snow could be on its way back to Nottinghamshire - followed by bitterly cold winds.An area of low pressure, known as a polar vortex, has been displaced, and forecasters say it could lead to further wintry weather.A weather warning has been issued for snow in the county, which will be in place from 9am on Wednesday until 11.55pm on Thursday. Nicola Maxey, from the Met Office, said: "A polar vortex is an area of upper air that's always there."It has moved a little bit eastwards from
  
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• Liverpool host Sunderland in opener

  26-01-2015 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Defending champions Liverpool Ladies host newly-promoted Sunderland in the opening game of the Women's Super League 2015.
  
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• JemmaPage published Nottingham butcher Johnny Pusztai teaches NCN Clarendon catering...

  26-01-2015 14:27
  Thirty catering students were shown how to make the most of their meat by award-winning butcher Johnny Pusztai.Johnny and his team, of JT Beedham & Sons, in Sherwood, visited NCN Clarendon on Monday to demonstrate whole carcass butchery to the college's catering and hospitality students.The practical lesson saw Johnny, Steve Rudkin, the shop's manager, and Joel Goddard, an apprentice butcher, use a whole pig's carcass to show the students how to use cuts of meat such
  
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