• Chilwell software engineer tracked stolen bike over internet

  By digbypatch

  I was also just entering the store at about 2200hrs about 6 weeks a go and thee was a Policeman...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:56 on 17/05/12

  

  A SOFTWARE engineer is to help Notts Police fight crime online after he tracked down his stolen bike over the internet. Dom Finn thought his £500 Trek Valencia was gone forever after thieves sawed through a bike chain outside Tesco in Station Road, Beeston. But using software which monitors updates on websites the 29-year-old found the bike up for auction on eBay just five days later. Police then recovered it from the seller...

• Loyalty card scheme encourages staff to shop locally

  By D99WR

  Great clique philosophy, what about the rest of Beeston residents.

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 16/05/12

  

  A LOYALTY card scheme has been launched in Beeston to encourage people who work in the town to shop there too. The Beeston Business Improvement District (BID) launched the card scheme to drive up trade, and 50 of the town's retailers have already signed up. The loyalty cards offer a range of discounts on services and products and hundreds have been given out to local employees since the launch. Stephanie Wilkinson, Beeston...

• Pupils brighten up graffiti-coated subway with mural

  By zzps123

  Can see the next headlines.....mural coated in graffiti.. Sad but true...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 27/04/12

  

  SCHOOL pupils fed up of walking through a graffiti-covered subway decided to brighten it up with a mural. The youngsters from Dunkirk Primary School spent a week painting the colourful artwork on the walls of a subway under the A52 Clifton Boulevard, near their school. Children in the school council came up with the idea after having to walk through the dark and graffiti-covered subway to get to the school, in...

• New book charts Notts' historic almshouses

  By starving

  Damn! Now they know where the surviving examples are the developers and their Council cronies will...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 10/05/12

  

  THE first recorded almshouse was founded by King Athelstan in York in the 10th century AD. And through a millennium of history, Notts has had more than 50 almshouses in every corner of the county. Some survive, others have disappeared. But now Open University graduate Elizabeth Anne Earl has documented them all in a book that is sure to fascinate readers and provide an invaluable resource for local history researchers. Mrs Earl's...

• Group set up to fight academy plans

  By NickSherwood

  Excellent news for Notts schools. It's great to see parents, the community and the NUT working...

            

   

  By Nottingham Post at 07:30 on 09/05/12

  

  A CAMPAIGN group has been set up to fight plans to convert a group of Bramcote schools into an academy. The White Hills Park Federation – which includes Alderman White School, Bramcote Park School and Bramcote Hills College – has written to parents to ask for their views on changing to academy status. Now a Hands Off Our Schools campaign has set up by parents and prospective parents to oppose the move. A public meeting...

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