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5 Great Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: UB40, Lockdown Diaries and More
Mon 16 May 2022From theatre shows like Dreamgirls to Notts literature icons like Sue Cheung, we've got an exciting week coming up in our city...
The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play
Sun 15 Mar 2020For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...
Friends of Chernobyl’s Children Gives Respite to Hundreds of Young Belarusians Affected by Radiation Poisoning in Hucknall
Tue 24 Sept 2019After the worst nuclear disaster in history decimated the Eastern European landscape in 1986, one group in Britain decided they wanted to make a difference to the young people in the worst-affected areas. Since then, Friends of Chernobyl’s Children has set up a number of regional groups throughout the UK in order to help hundreds of young Belarusians receive respite from the poisonous contamination that still lingers in the air, water and food with month-long stays in the UK. As one of the host families at the Hucknall group, David and Barbara Palmer have been taking children affected by the disaster for the past fifteen years...
Hong Kong Diaries 12: Going with a Bang
Wed 15 Feb 2017Well, it’s that time of year again, when every few minutes’ shock has us momentarily parting with our skin. Yes, Chinese New Year and the detonation of firecrackers throughout the village to keep those dastardly evil spirits at bay; of which there’s clearly quite a few judging by the frequency of reports and the swathes of red debris carpeting the area.
Hong Kong Diaries: A Scary Tale Christmas
Thu 15 Dec 2016Our man in Hong Kong compares and contrasts the festive seasons of his faraway position in the world, and of humble Nottingham...
The Diary of a Nottingham Man in Hong Kong
Mon 14 Nov 2016Nottingham’s best travelled writer, Ben Zabulis, discovers a culture so obsessed with reading they queue up overnight for the Hong Kong Book Festival…
Hong Kong Diaries 9: Ticket to Ride
Wed 17 Aug 2016"Shatin is what's known as a new town development and thereby highly populated; size-wise think of Mansfield but unvandalised, safe and with a million people"
Hong Kong Diaries 7: One Year Anniversary!
Sun 17 Apr 2016Kidnapped book publishers, crazy weather and a riot inspired by fishballs. Ben Zabulis reflects on his new life abroad.
Hong Kong Diaries 6: High Rise
Thu 31 Mar 2016"Whereas Hyson Green was given over to minimal housing, Shek Kip Mei morphed into a larger version of its old self with 8 new blocks of 36-storeys"
Hong Kong Diaries 5: It's All Gone Suzie Wong
Wed 30 Dec 2015"The Oxfam Trailwalker was inaugurated as a Gurkha training exercise. In short, it’s a masochistic 100km hike"
Hong Kong Diaries 4: The Trent Flows East at Notts
Mon 02 Nov 2015"Sometimes, I think, slurping a decent wonton, that if it wasn’t for the heat and the city it’s as if we’d never left Notts at all."
Hong Kong Diaries 3: Losing My Religion
Tue 22 Sept 2015"Imagine all your worst enemies, admittedly dead ones, coming back to haunt you. So it’s a serious event and these boggers need appeasing."
Hong Kong Diaries 2: Some like it hot
Fri 07 Aug 2015"In Nottingham foxes scavenge the bins by night, here King Cobras enticed by poorly packed human refuse can compete."