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Nottingham Dialect and Mining Culture Documentary to be Broadcast on BBC Radio 4

James Walker blathers on about dialect and mining culture for a BBC Radio 4 series called Talk and Tongue.

Vote for Notts Lego Club Organisers Make to Make on ITV's The People's Projects

12 April 18

Make to Make, a Community Interest Company that runs creative workshops in Nottingham, has recently reached the final of ITV’s The People’s Projects and needs your votes to receive further funding from The Big Lottery Fund. Make to Make’s workshops include Craft Cafe - a regular sewing and textiles workshop for isolated members of the community - and Lego Club - a fortnightly creative play session at Rough Trade Records where kids and parents can find time to play together. Managing director Kim Errington talks to LeftLion about funding, being on telly and the invaluable work Make to Make does for the community.

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

02 April 18

We're not too proud of the city, this month. We can do better.

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

03 March 18

Notts news from last month...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

01 February 18

Last month's headlines from your beloved city...

Paloma Faith Announced as Splendour 2018 Headliner

29 January 18

Splendour celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and what better way to celebrate than by pulling in one of the UK’s biggest singer-songwriters?

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

06 December 17

Some of the daftest things to happen in Notts...

Midlands Women's Aid Need Your Help

17 November 17

Crimbo is close, which means it’s time to get giving, and if you’re looking for a worthy cause in need of pennies we’ve got it covered. Midlands Women’s Aid, a refuge service in Notts, is looking to raise £840 to buy presents for forty children (budgeting £20 per child) and they need our help. They’ve only got till Sunday 10 December to hit their target…

Boilermaker's Manager Makes Final of Gabriel Boudier Liqueur Competition

08 November 17

Turns out Nottingham has a secret cocktail wizard who has created the next best thing in flavoured booze...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

01 November 17

The students are back, the 'feds' are crackin' down and all of the birds have been set free... 

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

06 October 17

Some daft, some daring, and some down right cheeky...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

06 September 17

Couple news stories from last month...

The Truth About Nottingham Central Library's Redevelopment

22 December 16

We spoke to Cllr David Trimble and Nigel Hawkins to get to the bottom of the story behind the sale and redevelopment of our Central Library on Angel Row... 

The Thompson Brothers on Donald Trump

02 December 16

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

02 December 16

Find out what's been going off around and about the city over the past month or so...

LeftLion Magazine #85

02 December 16

December - January 2017

The Paedophile-Hunting Vigilantes Who Came to Nottingham

23 November 16

In 2016, 29-year-old Nottingham man Ricky Slade was confronted by a paedophile-hunting action group at Nottingham Train Station. He was later charged with three attempts to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and one attempt to meet a child for sexual activity, and died while in custody awaiting his sentence. The group who confronted him goes by the name  The Hunted One. We spoke to one of their members about what they do.  

New Pop-Up Shop in Victoria Centre Hosted by Mimm X Studio LBW

01 November 16

The creative community champions Mimm have hooked up with local fashion brand Studio LBW...
Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2018