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In Ideal Home, the same-sex parenting comedy with a warm and fuzzy centre, Steve Coogan is the lively cookery show presenter, Erasmus, whose long-lost grandson, Bill, arrives unannounced when his dad is arrested, writes Natalie Stendall.

This extended detached property has been extensively refitted and refurbished ton a very high standard over recent years and is now a superb family home.

Entertaining families for more than ten years, the Nottingham beach is back at the Old Market Square in the city this week.

Take a trip down memory lane with this fabulous slideshow of bygone snaps from Worksop. Test your local knowledge with these pictures by clicking on the above link.

A showpiece family garden room is one of the standout features of this impressive extended family home.

Judith Owen - rediscCOVERed (Twanky Records). Judith Owen has always seemed content to march to the beat of a markedly different drummer from many of her contemporaries in the singer-songwriter field, and the Welsh chanteuse’s latest offering on her own Twanky label is populated by the most eccentric collection of cover versions that you could ever wish to hear. Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water is given a thorough going over alongside radical re-imaginings of everything from Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun to the Grease anthem Summer Nights, and the finished product is a thoughtful, jazz inflected delight.

Get ready for an evening packed with Heroes And Adventures when Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual family concert returns in January.

After winning the Michael Powell award for best British feature film at this year’s Edinburgh film festival, unnerving Scottish thriller Calibre finds a home on Netflix, writes Natalie Stendall

Readers have been out and about taking pictures of life across the area. Click the link above to see a round-up of some of the best snaps sent in this week. If you would like to see your picture appear online and in the newspaper please send them in via email. They don’t have to be related to a news story - they could be a local landmark, a gathering of friends - anything that records everyday life. Check back again next week to see more great shots.

The hot temperatures and sunshine reminded me of childhood summers in the seventies with washing up liquid bottle water games and queuing up at stand pipes.


Most keen gardeners will be familiar with hypericum Hidcote, a classic garden variety which is reliable, rewarding and easy to grow, and named after a famous National Trust garden.

Take a trip down memory lane with this fabulous slideshow of bygone snaps from Worksop. Test your local knowledge with these pictures by clicking on the above link.

The last time I cruised down a river was in my father’s fishing cobble as a young boy. I said to my wife “I would fancy a river cruise holiday”, the response was muted.

Gainsborough Organ & Keyboard Club are delighted to present Nottingham’s very own ‘King Of The Keyboards’; Brett Wales in concert at the Weston Rooms, Hickman Street on Thursday, June 28 at 7.30pm.

Nativity! The Musical is to tour the country later in the year and producers are on the lookout for children across the UK to audition for the 2018 UK tour, which includes a week at the Theatre Royal Nottingham from November 21-25.

Our screens are currently dominated by the World Cup and St George’s flags abound as evidence of support for Southgate’s Squad and many a mind and pocket are focused on ‘our team’ winning.

The Theatre Royal Nottingham has comedy legend Joe Pasquale and Only Fools and Horses star John Challis leading the cast of this year’s swashbuckling family pantomime, Peter Pan.

Supermarket giant Morrisons is claiming to have developed the 'hottest ever supermarket curry' which is said to include a chilli TWO HUNDRED times hotter than a Jalapeño.