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The Vibe – your guide to what’s going on in Gedling borough (23 February – 29 February)

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The Vibe – your guide to what’s going on in Gedling borough (23 February – 29 February)

Here’s our latest round-up of events taking place from Friday, February 23 to Thursday, February 29 across the borough.

Friday, February 23

Friday Quiz Night – Burnt Stump Inn, 8.00pm

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Trad Jazz Session – The Vale Social Club, Colwick

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Stevens & Knight – Top Spot, Carlton

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Peppa’s Cinema Party (U) – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Fri 23 – Wed 28 Feb, 10:30am £6.80pp

Come on everybody it’s time for Peppa’s Cinema Party! This year Peppa Pig celebrates her 20th anniversary and to mark such a HUGE occasion she is throwing the MOST EPIC PARTY EVER – and all of her friends are INVITED! (That’s YOU!) Featuring the voices of Katy Perry as Ms. Leopard and Orlando Bloom as Mr. Raccoon in an episode of the 3-part Wedding Party story, the whole family can enjoy 10 never-before-seen Peppa Pig episodes!

And with 5 brand new songs, as well as 11 interactive entertainment shorts with Peppa and her friends playing, dancing and singing in the real world, you and your little ones will be moving and grooving with Peppa in a whole new way! So grab your coat and jump into your boots, let’s be on our way to the Peppa Cinema Party!

65 mins

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All of us Strangers (15) – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Fri 23 – Thu 29 Feb, Various Times £6.80pp £5.00pp on Tuesdays

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

“It shimmers and it aches” Telegraph ★★★★★

“A beautiful romance ” Guardian ★★★★★

Times ★★★★ Little White Lies ★★★★

Directed by Andrew Haigh
With Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal
1hr 45 mins // US 2023

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EVENT CINEMA: National Theatre Live: Vanya (Cert TBC) – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Fri 23 – Sun 25 Feb, Various Times £12.50pp

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End, Vanya will be playing exclusively in cinemas in 2024.

“The performance of the year” The i ★★★★★

Vanya
adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov
directed by Sam Yates
designed by Rosanna Vize

1hr 57 mins | No Interval

*Additional screenings may be added at a later date

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Old Skool Night – Elwes Arms, Carlton

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Saturday, February 24

Penny Diamond – Arnold Liberal Club

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Nick Keen – Admiral Rodney, Calverton

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Burlington Live – St Paul’s, Daybrook, 7.30pm

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Nutty Boy Tribute – The Vale Social Club, Colwick

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Rebel Rebel – David Bowie Tribute Show – Bonington Theatre, Arnold

Sat 24 Feb, 7:30pm £15.00pp

Join Rebel Rebel for a powerful musical experience as they present the greatest hits of David Bowie from across his career alongside a full performance of the seminal Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust album.

*Please disregard a previous note that the car park will be closed. The date of the car park closure has been moved to 22 February.

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Gemma Cristina & Davy Champion – Top Spot, Carlton

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Sunday, February 25

Mapperley Tales by Bob Massey – The Bread and Bitter, Mapperley

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Pop-Up Food Fayre – Burton Joyce Old School Building

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Bonnie – Top Spot, Carlton

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Sunday Quiz Night – Larch Farm, Ravenshead, 9.00pm

Wednesday & Sunday evenings

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The Color Purple (12A) – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Mon 26 – Thu 29 Feb, Various Times £6.80pp £5.00pp on Tuesdays

A woman’s painful journey of self-realisation sees her face prejudice, abuse and sexual violence in this musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, featuring jubilant and defiant songs in the face of challenging themes.

“A joy to watch” BBC ★★★★

Nominated for 1 Academy Award– Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)

Directed by Blitz Bazawule
With Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks
2hr 20 mins // US 2023

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Artists Makers & Fine Foods Market – Papplewick & Linby Village Hall

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Monday, February 26

Monday Quiz Night – The Arrow, Arnold, 7.30pm

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Harry Potter Quiz Night – Copper, Mapperley

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Pub League Poker – The Brick Yard, Carlton

Free pint to the winner of the night for season 2, along with the cash pot from player buy ins (£5 a head) and 100 points on the leaderboard.

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Monday Quiz Night – The Bread & Bitter, Mapperley

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Monday Quiz Night – Four Bells, Woodborough, 7.30pm

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Tuesday, February 27

Flying High Film Workshop – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Tue 27 Feb, 10:30am £10.00pp

We would love you to join us for this once a month opportunity for adult members of the community to come together for fun, camaraderie, learning, sharing food and film.

Each month in the Bonington Theatre, we will meet at 10.30am for a 2-hour exploration workshop (discussions, exercises, some role play and improvisation for those brave enough!) examining the themes, context, characters, ideas and plot of a particular film. There will be a light buffet style lunch, teas and coffees before watching the film at 1.30pm. The event should finish 3.00pm – 3.30pm depending on the length of the film.

The Color Purple centres around Celie’s painful but triumphant journey of self-realisation as she faces prejudice, abuse and sexual violence, eventually leaving her abusive husband for a romantic relationship with jazz singer, Shrug Avery and becomes an independent business woman.

This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, featuring jubilant and defiant songs in the face of challenging themes.

“A joy to watch” BBC ★★★★

Nominated for 1 Academy Award– Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)

N.B. This film is 2 hrs 20 mins so will finish at 3.40pm.

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Pub Quiz – The Brickyard, Carlton

Booking advised due to popularity of event.

£2 buy in per person, £25 bar tab to be won and a rolling higher or lower jackpot

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EVENT CINEMA: Exhibition on Screen: Painting the Modern Garden- Monet to Matisse – Bonington Cinema, Arnold

Tue 27 Feb – Wed 6 Mar, Various Times £12.50pp

Based on the sell-out show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and extensive exhibition from the Royal Academy of Art, London.

From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, the film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different contemporaries of Monet built and cultivated modern gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract colour, decorative design and utopian ideas. Guided by passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, this remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century will reveal the rise of the modern garden in popular culture and the public’s enduring fascination with gardens today. Long considered spaces for expressing colour, light and atmosphere, the garden has occupied the creative minds of some of the worlds greatest artists. As Monet said, ‘Apart from painting and gardening, I’m no good at anything’.  For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.

Filmed and Directed by David Bickerstaff
Produced by Phil Grabsky

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Bike Night – The Gleaners, Calverton

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Wednesday, February 28

Wednesday Quiz Night – The Nags Head, Carlton, 8.30pm

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Wednesday Quiz Night – Robin Hood & Little John, Arnold, 8.30pm

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Thursday, February 29

Boogie Night Thursdays – The Longbow, Arnold, 6.00pm – 9.30pm

Creating a safe and fun environment for adults with learning difficulties to socialise and dance the night away.

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Thursday Quiz Night – The Gleaners, Calverton, 8.30pm

Damian Balthazar – Top Spot

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Quiz Night – Sashas Bar, Arnold

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Thursday Quiz Night – The Vale Hotel, Woodthorpe, 8.00pm

Weekly quiz night in support of local food bank.

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Thursday Quiz Night – Copper Mapperley, 7.00pm

Thursday Quiz Night – Gedling Inn, Gedling, 8.00pm

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Plans revealed for new enterprise space in Arnold’s AMP centre

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Plans revealed for new enterprise space in Arnold’s AMP centre

A new enterprise centre is on the cards for Arnold after Gedling Borough Council today revealed plans to transform the vacant first floor of The AMP into a space for budding entrepreneurs.

A report has been published by the council revealing that it plans to allocate a significant investment of £655,000 into fitting out the vacant first floor of the building to boost economic growth and provide a space for offices, conference and training room in the heart of the town. 

The AMP was opened by Gedling Borough Council on the former Arnold Market site in 2022 and is already home to a number of small businesses on the ground floor.

The council said it always had plans to develop the first floor space and the project has received £655,000 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund so that work can begin and is expected to be completed by the Autumn.

AMP in Arnold
The AMP was opened up in Arnold last year
The AMP was built on the former site of Arnold Market in the town centre

The project is expected to support several of the council priorities including revitalising town centres, support economic growth and creating jobs in the area. It will also increase footfall to the town shopping precinct and support the existing businesses in the area. 

The council has also recently announced investment plans in the northern part of the town with the purchase of vacant units and the creation of a masterplan for the entire town centre with the aim of attracting investment opportunities following the disappointment of not receiving any UK Government Levelling Up funding in the latest round of bids. 

Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor John Clarke MBE said: “We’re delighted to be announcing the next phase of work to create an enterprise centre here at the AMP.

“We want to create a space where we can support local businesses, start ups and entrepreneurs who need office space in the centre of a busy town centre like Arnold. 

“We’ve seen how successful our investment to build the AMP building has been. The ground floor has been as all seven units are currently full against a backdrop of difficult economic times for so many. 

He added: We are doing everything we can to bring people to the high street, including continuing to offer two hours of free parking in all our car parks and now with this work to transform the first floor, it will create more jobs and support growth in the borough.”

LOOKING BACK: The Carlton street that was turned into a ‘quagmire’ by builder’s bulldozers 59 years ago

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LOOKING BACK: The Carlton street that was turned into a ‘quagmire’ by builder’s bulldozers 59 years ago

Back in March 1965, angry residents in a Carlton street were complaining to reporters from the Nottingham Guardian after their road was turned into a ‘quagmire’ by builders.

Those living on Gardenia Grove complained that it had now become ‘a daily occurrence’ for milk and bread vans to be trapped in the mud and sometimes break-down vehicles had to be called to their assistance.

Gardenia Grove was then a private, unmade road, and several years previously, residents had put down a hard surface on their side with ashes and ballast.

But since building operations began on the 51 bungalows and chalets in the street, however, they claimed their side of the road had been churned up by lorries and bulldozers.

Mr, Walter Hunt, of Salcombe, Gardenia Grove said at the time that he would now leave his car at home whenever he could.

PICTURED: Residents in the mud on Gardenia Grove in Carlton back in 1965

“It’s just a death trap to drive along the road, particularly when it is wet, At the exit to the grove there is a hill and you have to be extremely careful not to skid,” he said.

Mr. Hunt had put down over nine tons of hard core on his road frontage.

“That has just been wasted now. Bulldozers and lorries have put earth and clay all over it.”

One of the complaints was that workmen had put a clay surface on the opposite side of the road and so vehicles are forced to travel on the surface made by the residents.

“This ruins the surface even more,” added Mr. Hunt.

He said that although Carlton UDC had agreed to investigate the willingness of residents to pay for the road to be made up, it had no jurisdiction over the condition of the road.

Mrs, Lily Whittington, of The Poplars, said: When children come home from school their boots and shoes are filthy. These conditions are ruinous to shoes.”

For most of the residents, there is a ritual of changing footwear before entering the house.

Mr, W. Scott, managing director of W. Scott (Nottm) Estate Co. who were building contractors on the site, denied that their firm had been responsible.

“We have provided our own surfaced road from Gardenia- grove and this has been wired off so that our own lorries can’t get onto the grove.”

He added that his firm had offered to contribute towards the cost of making up the road.

Mr. L. G, Butterworth, a director of Butterworth and Partners, engineering contractors of Langley Mill, who were also working on the building project, said that bulldozers had not been used on the site since September.

Gedling Borough Council slams government funding as it plans to raise council tax by nearly three per cent

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Gedling Borough Council slams government funding as it plans to raise council tax by nearly three per cent

Gedling Borough Council’s new budget is likely to see residents’ council tax bills go up by nearly three per cent from April.

The authority has blamed government support, saying it has consistently been one of the lowest-funded councils in the country.

The 2.988 per cent rise in council tax would be an annual increase of £3.64 for Band A properties and £4.25 for Band B, which make up the majority of properties in the district.

Leaders at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday (February 21) said they were “sick and tired” of a lack of funding.

Deputy council leader Michael Payne Deputy said he was sick and tired of being one of the lowest-funded councils in the country year in and year out.
The authority has blamed government support, saying it has consistently been one of the lowest-funded councils in the country.
Gedling Borough Council's Civic Centre
The council will need to find £3.5m in savings for the next three financial years in order to balance its budget.

Budget papers say the council has consistently been in the bottom three per cent of English and Welsh councils for Core Spending Power – the government’s method of measuring resources.

It was the overall lowest in 2020/21 and 2021/22, and is predicted to be seventh worst in the financial year starting in April.

Core Spending Power takes into account central government support, council tax and business rate income.

Deputy leader Councillor Michael Payne (Lab) said: “I am sick and tired of seeing this year and year out.

“Over the lifetime of this Parliament, Gedling Borough Council has never found itself out of bottom nine of 349 local authorities in England and Wales in terms of the money it receives from the government.

“We’ve never asked to be given millions of additional pounds of money; we’ve just asked to be treated fairly.

“There is lots of criticism about councils increasing tax but not taking fat out of the system. Just this year, we’ve taken £406,000 out of our own budget, which mean cuts to local jobs and services.

“Why is money being taken away from Gedling residents and sent to the wealthy and leafy boroughs down south?”

The council will need to find £3.5m in savings for the next three financial years in order to balance its budget.

It expects that council tax will need to be raised by the maximum threshold of 2.99 per cent each year during this time.

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for setting council funding,

A spokesperson said: “Gedling Borough Council’s Core Spending Power (CSP) allocation of £12.4 million – an increase of £0.68 million or 5.8 per cent compared to the funding in 2023-24.

“We recognise councils are facing challenges and that is why we recently announced an additional £600 million support package for councils across England, increasing their overall funding for the upcoming financial year to £64.7 billion – a 7.5 per cent increase in cash terms.”

A full meeting of Gedling Borough Council will sign off on the council tax proposals on Wednesday, March 6.

Egg-straordinary goings on in Lambley as chocolate walls start to appear

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Egg-straordinary goings on in Lambley as chocolate walls start to appear

As Easter approaches The Robin Hood Inn in Lambley has started an Easter egg collection to support children’s cancer charities.

Gedling Eye caught up with Jo Leafe from the popular local pub who said: “We have a regular, Pete who mentioned that he had done an Easter egg collection in the Robin Hood Inn a few years ago.

“We like supporting charities and raised £114.82 for the fire fighters charity at our previous free children’s party event in December and we thought that building an Easter Egg wall or two for ill kids was a great idea so we decided we would give it a go.

“We chose to support children’s cancer charities as this is a cause close to Pete’s heart. Pete’s nephew, Ryan died from a cancerous brain tumour that progressed down his spine.

Courtesy of The Robin Hood Inn
Courtesy of The Robin Hood Inn

“We are asking people to donate an Easter egg or however many they choose and pop it down to the pub and we will add it to the wall(s).”

The Robin Hood Inn is located at 82 Main Street, Lambley, NG4 4PP and can be contacted by telephone on 0115 931 3906 or by email at robinhood.lambley@phoenixpub.co.uk.

Further information can be accessed via their social channel HERE.

Animal Search UK is on the hunt for missing cat in Gedling

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Animal Search UK is on the hunt for missing cat in Gedling

Animal Search UK’s Missing Pet Search Team are out in Gedling today, February 22, on the hunt for the missing cat Portia.

Portia escaped the house on Thursday, February 15 and hasn’t come home.

There has been only one potential sighting of Portia since she escaped, and the observer reported that she appeared injured, which is increasingly concerning for the owners.

The charity believes she is either scared hiding somewhere close by or befriended a neighbour in the area for some food and shelter.

PICTURED: Portia went missing last week
The Animal Search UK team will be in Gedling today looking for Portia

Animal Search UK, the UK’s leading missing pet organisation, are conducting a search for Portia today in the local area and they need your help. 

Portia is a beautiful Siamese cat with blue eyes. She is chipped and neutered.

Portia’s worried owners said: “My young children (and us) are heartbroken and just want her back.

“She’s a house cat and isn’t used to being outside. She’s gentle and nervous and I believe the only reason she didn’t come back quickly after wandering outside the back door is that just after she escaped my house sitter let our dog out so she will have moved away from the dog, he then locked her out and didn’t realise she was missing until Saturday afternoon. She would have been walking around meowing outside the house, but the house sitter is a bit deaf and wouldn’t have heard her.

“The potential sighting of her injured is very worrying but would explain why she’s not come home. Maybe she’s been chased, attacked or hit by a car and is too badly injured to make the journey back.”

The charity has issued this poster as the search for Portia continues

Alisha Turner from the Media Team and Animal Search Headquarters said:“We are worried about Portia since she is an indoor cat and this being the longest she has spent outside.

“She has little road sense and likely to become overwhelmed by her environment. We are urging everyone in the area to be vigilant and to check their gardens.“

Anyone who thinks they might have seen Portia or have any information, please call the Animal Search UK team on 0800 4 320 340 or visit our website at www.animalsearchuk.co.uk quoting reference number ALP311494.

Animal Search UK’s missing pet search team are the only one of their kind, with over 22 years of extensive experience successfully reuniting pets across the UK.

Pet owners are urged to PROTECT their beloved pets at www.animalsearchuk.co.uk, ensuring they are prepared for the worst. You can also become part of their Pet Watch Campaign to help keep the pets of your neighbourhood safe.

*We urge anyone in Gedling (Nottingham) and surrounding areas to be vigilant and check their sheds and outbuildings. Transport workers, also please check your vehicles for Portia*

Woodborough on high alert with flood warning issued

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Woodborough on high alert with flood warning issued

A flood warning has this morning been issued for a village in Gedling borough where water levels are rising, with some residents told they will experience flooding.

The Environment Agency has informed residents in Woodborough to expect flooding as a result of further heavy rainfall expected today (22).

They say flooding of property is possible and will start at 10:00am.

Areas most at risk are Woodborough including Main Street which is likely to be impassable, affecting access in and out of the village.

Flood-sign
Flooding is expected in Woodborough from 10am onwards

Flooding may also affect properties on Lingwood Lane, Smalls Croft and Westfield Lane.

An Environment Agency spokesman said: “Further rainfall is forecast over the next 6 hours. We expect river levels to rise until this afternoon.

“We are closely monitoring the situation.

“Please move possessions and valuables off the ground or to safety and follow advice from emergency services.”

Highest paying supermarkets in Gedling borough revealed – and you could earn up to £12 per hour

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Highest paying supermarkets in Gedling borough revealed – and you could earn up to £12 per hour

Lidl and Aldi have become the highest-paying supermarkets in the borough, as staff members start the year with another pay rise.

Store staff at Lidl get an hourly pay rise of £12 from £11.40, rising to £13 with length of service. Aldi also offer staff an hourly pay of £12, rising to £12.95 based on length of service.

Lidl last month revealed it was investing £37m in pay to increase the wages of its 26,000 hourly-paid workers and salaried colleagues following a similar move by Aldi in December 2023.

The lowest payers were Morrisons at £10.92 an hour and M&S who pay staff £10.90.

The National Minimum Wage is £10.45 an hour for those aged 21 and over – this will increase to £11.44 from April 2024.

All supermarkets pay higher than the National Minimum Wage.

So if you’re considering a job at one of these shops it’s worth looking at the work perks you can get too.

But which grocery shop pays the best rates? Here are the basic hourly rates of pay ranked.

Lidl

Lild supermarket
Lidl last month revealed it was investing £37m in pay to increase the wages of its 26,000 hourly-paid workers and salaried colleagues

Last month, Lidl invested £37m in pay to increase the wages of its 26,000 hourly-paid workers and salaried colleagues.

From March 1, entry-level roles at the discount grocer will be 17% higher than the new National Minimum Wage being introduced in April.

Colleagues will see hourly pay raised from £11.40 to £12, increasing to £13 with length of service.

Other new pay benefits include a bank holiday premium of £2 per hour and an enhanced nightshift premium of £3.50.

Aldi

In December, Aldi raised pay for all store and warehouse colleagues to a minimum of £12 an hour nationally.

Store assistants will see their pay rise further to £12.95 based on the length of their service.

Aldi is also the only supermarket to offer paid breaks, which for the average store colleague is worth more than an additional £900 a year.

Sainsbury’s

Last month, Sainsbury’s invested £200m to increase hourly rates by 9.1%.

From March, wages for store colleagues will rise to £12 per hour nationally and £13.15 within the M25.

The change, which was described by Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts as “industry leading”, will impact 120,000 hourly paid employees and marks the supermarket giant’s single biggest ever investment into colleague pay.

Since 2018, Sainsbury’s has increased pay by 50% and by 9% in the past year in line with the Real Living Wage.

Employees will receive an additional £1,910 a year nationally and £2,290 a year in London, making it the largest supermarket to pay colleagues the new Real Living Wage nationally and the London Living Wage.

Sainsbury's Colwick
PICTURED: Sainsbury’s in Colwick (PHOTO: Gedling Eye)

Asda

Last year, Asda invested a record £141m in giving staff a 10% pay increase to hourly-paid store colleagues.

In July, pay rates rose to £11.11 per hour – a move benefitting more than 115,000 colleagues.

In April, the retailer offered employees an advance on their pay to help with the pressures of the cost-of-living crisis.

With financial wellbeing app Wagestream, Asda colleagues can access up to 50% of their earned contracted pay when they choose.

Tesco

In April 2023, Tesco made its biggest ever investment in employee pay of £230m as it boosted its hourly rate by 7% to £11.02.

At the same time, the retail giant rolled out further employee pay benefits including an increased additional skills payment for shift leaders, taking their hourly rate to £13.28.

Morrisons

Morrisons increased its hourly pay rates last October, when they raised the established rate for a customer assistant by 50p to £10.92.

M&S

In February 2023, M&S invested £57m to increase the hourly pay of its 40,000 customer assistants across the UK.

The wage, which came into effect on 1 April, marked the retailer’s “biggest ever investment” in front-line colleague reward.

The rate of pay for customer assistants nationally increased 70p to £10.90 per hour and pay rose to £12.05, up from £11.25 for those working in London.

Bereaved parents who lose baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy can now get a baby loss certificate to recognise devastating miscarriages

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Bereaved parents who lose baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy can now get a baby loss certificate to recognise devastating miscarriages

Parents who lose a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy will be able to apply for a certificate from today to have their grief formally recognised for the first time.

A voluntary scheme for baby loss certificates is being launched by the government to offer greater support to families who experience either an early or late miscarriage.

When a baby is stillborn after 24 weeks, the stillbirth is registered in a process that combines features of both birth and death registration.

However for families who lose a baby during pregnancy before 24 weeks, there has been no formal documentation available that recognises the loss of their child until now.

The introduction of certificates has been welcomed by charities, which have long campaigned for greater recognition for parents who lose a baby in the earlier stages of pregnancy.

While certificates are not compulsory, and parents will be able to choose as to whether they wish to request one or not, the government says it hopes their availability will help bereaved families feel their loss is recognised, that they feel heard and ‘supported through their grief’.

A decision to introduce such a scheme follows recommendations from the Pregnancy Loss Review, which was commissioned in 2018 to consider the registration of pregnancy loss that happens before 24 weeks gestation.

The Review concluded that while it currently may not be possible to prevent many pre-24-week pregnancy losses from happening, much more could be done to ensure grieving parents get excellent care and compassionate support.

Minister for the Women’s Health Strategy, Maria Caulfield said: “We have listened to parents who have gone through what can be an unbelievably painful experience of losing a baby, and that is why today we are introducing baby loss certificates to recognise their loss, as part of our wider long-term plan for women’s health in our country, the Women’s Health Strategy.

“I would like to thank the tireless work of campaigners and charities for their work in supporting this agenda and making the certificates a reality.”

The certificates will be available to either parent, who has experienced the loss of a baby under 24 weeks, since September 1, 2018.

Applicants must be at least 16 years of age, be living in England and have been living in England at the time the baby died.

The certificate is an official but not legal document.

Applications will open from 9am on Thursday, February 22 via the GOV.UK website.

Kate Brintworth, Chief Midwifery Officer for England, NHS England welcomed their introduction.

She said: “Compassionate and personalised care at every stage of pregnancy is vital, and I am pleased that women in England will now be able to access a baby loss certificate which recognises the impact and importance of early pregnancy loss to them and their families.

“The NHS is improving maternity and neonatal bereavement care across England, including by next month bereavement services will be available in almost every NHS Trust, seven days a week for women and families who sadly experience loss.”

Gedling borough weather Thursday, February 22

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Gedling borough weather Thursday, February 22

Today is expected to be rather cloudy, with a band of rain, locally heavy, moving eastwards across all parts during the day, bringing a risk of thunder and squally winds. Risk of gales in places. Temperatures near average. Maximum temperature 9 °C.

Cloud and rain gradually clearing away eastwards this evening to leave a largely dry night, with lengthy clear spells developing. Perhaps a few scattered light showers. A colder night. Minimum temperature 2 °C.

After a chilly start tomorrow, it is forecast be a largely dry day, with sunny spells for many. However, there is likely to be some scattered showers during the afternoon. Breezy and cooler. Maximum temperature 8 °C.

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