Politics

Bassetlaw District Council members and partners paid a site visit to a new supported housing complex in Worksop this week – and were wowed by what they found.

THIS weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “proper” TV in Yorkshire, by which I mean its birth as a self-contained region.

More than 300 people have made formal complaints about their councils in Nottinghamshire, new figures reveal.

Bassetlaw residents have until Tuesday, July 31, to sign up for the district council’s garden waste collection scheme for the 2018 season.

An online auction house based in Worksop is toasting its success selling specialist spirits to whisky lovers thousands of miles away across Europe.

Nottinghamshire County Council has just opened a new footbridge in Ordsall to provide pedestrians with a safer way to cross the River Idle.

Councillors from across Nottinghamshire voted today to go ahead with plans to scrap district and borough councils and create a new authority for the whole of the county.

A scheme to abolish district and borough councils has taken a significant step forward at a heated county council meeting.

Today (July 12), Nottinghamshire County Council will vote on whether to go ahead with a plan to abolish all seven county and district councils in Nottinghamshire.

A new development on former industrial land at Dinnington could create up to 27 new business units aimed at bringing jobs into the district.

Where do the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davis leave the Prime Minister? More importantly, where does it leave the Brexit negotiations?

Bassetlaw District Council say that 25 budding entrepreneurs applied for help from a pioneering business finance initiative in 2017-18.

Nottinghamshire Police and Bassetlaw District Council have agreed a deal to share premises later this year, in a move which will increase the police presence in Worksop.

Nottinghamshire County Council has said 93.3 per cent of parents and carers secured a place at their first choice primary school for their children in September 2018, up 1 per cent on the 2017 intake.

The partnership providing post-16 education in Retford is to relocate its A-level teaching in order to make space for more technical courses and possibly even higher degrees.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stirred up controversy this week by likening this summer’s World Cup in Russia to Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics.

A coalition of NGOs, scientists and academics has written to the Prime Minister to demand support for the National Trust in its battle against a fracking firm over Clumber Park.

Fire chiefs have rubber-stamped a controversial decision to cut night-time cover at Ashfield and Retford fire stations as part of a bid to cut costs.

Council tax will rise by 2.95 per cent this year to fund Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue – while fire chiefs are also expected to rubber-stamp a controversial plan to cut nighttime cover in Ashfield and Retford.