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Free fishing for kids in Gedling borough following shake-up of rod licences

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Free fishing for kids in Gedling borough following shake-up of rod licences

Kids in Gedling borough will be able to fish for free as part of a major shake-up of rod licences announced today by the Environment Agency. 

Changes include a free rod licence for junior anglers which is hoped to encourage more young people to give fishing a go and secure the future of the sport.

Other moves include a rolling rod licence that lasts for 365 days from the day you buy it – rather than only running up until the end of March regardless of when it was bought.

The third change is one which carp and specimen anglers have long campaigned for: the use of 3 rods having just 1 licence, rather than needing 2.

There are also some small increases to standard charges – for example, a coarse fishing licence has been raised from £27 to £30. This is the first time the cost of a rod licence has increased since 2010 and all additional income generated will all go back into improving fisheries and services for anglers.

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Celebrations as Robin Hood travel smartcard hits £1 million sales mark

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Celebrations as Robin Hood travel smartcard hits £1 million sales mark

A pay-as-you-go travel smartcard used by commuters in Gedling borough has broken through the £1 million sales mark just a year after launch.

Over 20,000 Robin Hood pay-as-you-go smartcards are now in circulation which allow cheaper travel on Nottingham’s trains and trams.

The cards have proved popular across Gedling borough since machines were installed in Arnold, Carlton and Netherfield.

Councillor Nick McDonald, portfolio holder for Business, Growth and Transport at Nottingham City Council, said he was delighted by recent sales figures.

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Mellish RFC weekly round-up

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Mellish RFC weekly round-up

Here’s our weekly round-up from the Mellish RFC teams by Matt Bright

Mellish Ladies 32 v 5 Scunthorpe Ladies

Mellish Ladies welcomed Scunthorpe Ladies after an improved display away at Derby Vipers last week.

Mellish opened the scoring early on with a smart set of hands getting the ball wide to Ebony Hancock o dot down in the corner for a 5-0 lead. Soon after Mellish Ladies dominant pack gave a good platform for number 8 Sarah Driver to pick from a base of a scrum and run from just inside the Scunthorpe half to increase the lead to 10-0. Following a back and forth 10 minutes played mostly in the centre of the field Hannah Carrington put a smart kick through for Hannah Wilson to kick on and score to give Mellish a 15-0 lead. Further stoppages and some ill discipline by Mellish gave Scunthorpe Ladies some field position and after knocking on the door for a while they got over the try line to claim 5 points just before half time giving a 15-5 scoreline at the interval.

The message was simple at half time, to keep the pressure on and being direct. Mellish were soon on the scoreboard again as Ebony Hancock collected her 2nd try of the day, 20-5. Scunthorpe came back strong after this and spent a good period of time camped in the Mellish 22, but he ladies weathered the storm with only a yellow card for Sarah Driver and a Scunthorpe player for a bit of handbags.

With the sides at 14 players each Mellish moved down field and maximized an overlap with smart hands for Vahi Clerc to cross to give Mellish a 25-5 lead. The day was rounded off by another long range effort from Hanna Wilson fielding the ball just inside the Mellish half and breaking a couple of tackles to cross under the posts and add he conversion to her 2nd try of the day with the final play of the game giving Mellish a 32-5 victory.

Back of the Match: Hannah Carrington
Forward of the Match: Sarah Driver
Coaches Player: Laura Stockbridge

Next up for the Ladies is Kenilworth at home in the Cup on the 6th of November, 2:30 kick off.

Training is Tuesday nights 7:30pm-9:00pm for anyone that has always wanted to give it a try or that are interested in returning to playing.

Mellish Mini & Junior Round Up:

Mellish Under 6’s, 7’s & 8’s traveled to Ashfield for some tag rugby fun in the mud and are showing improvements every week.

Mellish Under 9’s traveled to Ashfield to play the hosts and Ilkeston and are fast becoming used to the contact elements of the game with the tackle being introduced.

Mellish Under 11’s continued their winning run with both sides recording wins over Ashfield. Eddie Holmes catching the eye with some great defensive work and few tries to boot.

Mellish Under 14’s lost at home to a much improved Ashfield side 5-19

Mellish Under 15’s continued their winning run by beating local rivals West Bridgford 67-5

Mellish Juniors train on Wednesday nights from 6:30pm. For more information visit our website http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/mellishrfcltd/j/default.html and check the team pages for the coaches details.

Mellish RFC has 2 senior Men’s sides, 2 Ladies sides, Mini rugby for boys & girls aged 5-11 (mixed), junior boys sides 12-17 and junior girls sides from 11-18. Please check our website for more information (http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/mellishrfcltd/teams/)

Hundreds of ex-miners from Gedling Colliery to attend commemorative event on Monday

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Hundreds of ex-miners from Gedling Colliery to attend commemorative event on Monday

Hundreds of ex-coal miners are being invited to a former pit site 25 years after it closed its gates for the last time. 

Over 200 ex-miners are expected to attend an afternoon of events planned to mark the anniversary of the last shift completed at Gedling Colliery.

The gathering will begin at the former Gedling Miners Welfare Club, now called Mapperley Plains Social Club, next Monday (7) at 13.30pm.

The ex-miners will then be taken to the former pit site, now home to Gedling Country Park followed by a visit to the Gedling Memorial Lamp where a ceremony will take place to remember those who died at the colliery.

A beacon will be lit at the park to mark the special event and the day will finish with a special presentation at the welfare club.

The event is being organised by Gedling Borough Council, the Gedling Miners Welfare Trust and the Friends of Gedling Country Park

As a colliery it was a cornerstone of the area until it closed in 1991 and stood derelict for over 20 years before Gedling Borough Council invested £1.6 million to turn it into a country park.

The last shift was recorded on Monday, November 7, 1991 – 25 years to the day that the commemorative event will take place.

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Gritting teams out and about in Gedling borough tonight

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Gritting teams out and about in Gedling borough tonight

The council’s gritting teams will be out and about in Gedling borough for the first time tonight after The Met Office predicted that temperatures could drop towards freezing – with the risk of frost and ice forming.

The gritting teams will be out and about salting the main routes across the county from 8pm.

For updates this winter, check the @NottsCC Twitter feed.

It’s the latest activity which forms part of the annual winter preparations being put into force by Nottinghamshire County Council and its new joint venture company Via East Midlands.

Via East Midlands is based at the county council’s highways depots and is managing winter maintenance. The Met Office forecasts are monitored every day from Via’s winter service team based at Newark depot.

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New campaign urges businesses in Gedling borough to prepare for new £1 coin

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New campaign urges businesses in Gedling borough to prepare for new £1 coin

A new campaign has been launched to help retailers and major businesses in Gedling borough prepare for the launch of the historic new £1 coin early next year.

The government and Royal Mint want to help all businesses in the area affected as the 30-year-old pound coin is brought out of circulation and replaced with a new 12-sided version.

The new pound coin will be the most secure of its kind in the world, to combat counterfeiters who have around 45 million counterfeit £1 coins currently in circulation.

New security features include a hologram-like image that changes from a ‘£’ symbol to the number ‘1’ when the coin is seen from different angles. It also has micro-lettering and milled edges.

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Arnold pub relaunched following £180k makeover

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Arnold pub relaunched following £180k makeover

The Mayor of Gedling pulled the first pint of a new beer brewed especially to mark the completion of an Arnold pub’s £180k makeover.

The Mayor of Gedling Borough, Councillor Sandra Barnes, pulled the first pint of Keys Ale – which has brewed by the revived and historic Nottingham Brewery to celebrate the reopening of the Cross Keys on Front Street.

The renovation work has taken two weeks and also created three new jobs at the much-loved Stonegate Pub Company-owned site.

The Front Street venue received a complete makeover with new fixtures and fittings introduced, along with the introduction of new furniture and the installation of a new sports area.

The pub has also purchased two new darts boards for the two teams at the pub – which is a firm favourite for sports fans in the area. This is thanks to the complete sports coverage at the Cross Keys thanks to its five HD screens, which show Sky Sports, BT Sport and At The Races.

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NEW LOOK: Inside the recently refurbished Cross Keys
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MAKEOVER: The pub’s new-look bar area
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FRESH: The outside of the Cross Keys in Arnold has been refreshed

General manager, Mandy Morley, said: “The Cross Keys is a community pub and the locals are really looking forward to the changes we are going to make to it. It has always been a sports pub and this will continue – but we are really upping the drinks and food offer too. There will be strong focus on craft and cask ale and we will have a full programme of events throughout the week to keep people entertained.”

The Cross Keys will offer three real ales at all time, plus will have three guest ales on weekly in addition to a hand-pulled craft cider.

It will kick off each week with sports coverage on a Monday; Tuesdays will be the day the darts teams play. On Thursdays the Cross Keys will be running poker nights; Friday is Best of British and on a Saturday the pub will have live DJ from 9pm.

On a Sunday the Cross Keys is launching a new interactive TV quiz – which gives each team a handset for timed answering.

Mandy, who has been a pub manager for 10 years and has been brought to the Cross Keys specifically to oversee the refurbishment and beyond, added: “The interactive quiz will be a great addition to the pub and there has been a lot of interest in it. The locals can’t wait to try it out.”

The Cross Keys will also be offering a complete range of hearty and good value meals like a burger and a drink for £6.49 or an all-day breakfast for £4.99.

Calverton teenager handed top gong at youth recognition awards ceremony

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Calverton teenager handed top gong at youth recognition awards ceremony

A teenager from Calverton has stopped the top gong at a Nottinghamshire youth award ceremony held last night.

Cameron-Lei Ford was amongst seven other teenagers from across the area who were picked up their 4Uth Awards during a ceremony held at Nottinghamshire County Hall in West Bridgford last night.

As well as securing the award for the Gedling area, Cameron was also named overall winner.

He said: “I am over the moon to have won and I will act upon it and take it forward. I would like to try to take on more of my friends and try to expand the enterprise.”

More than 65,000 people have engaged through social media channels including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as part of this year’s annual youth awards using the hashtag: #4Uth, with more than 80 young people nominated for outstanding achievements.

Nottinghamshire County Council Leader Councillor Alan Rhodes said: “Many congratulations to all of our district award winners in this year’s 4Uth awards. This event was a great opportunity to highlight and celebrate their outstanding achievements.

“Cameron’s was a very impressive application. He is a very motivated young man showing tenacity and a determination to turn his life around and he has had some extremely difficult issues in his life.

“He has taken time to volunteer in his community, has taken time to develop his entrepreneurial skills and he has now become a very well respected young man in the Calverton community.

“Cameron has been an excellent role model for other young people – his social enterprise skills have come to the fore, he has been involved in gardening projects for other people, he has involved other young people in his community and encouraged them to do their bit to make life better for others in the Calverton community.”

He was nominated for the award by youth worker Mohammed Yaseen who is based at Calverton Young People’s Centre which Cameron attends.

Mr Yaseen revealed he nominated Cameron for overcoming a number of personal problems before going on to successfully help other young people in his local community by setting up a successful social enterprise.

He said: “For many years Cameron had experienced bullying because of being overweight. He struggled with poor self-image and his academic performance deteriorated and he was seen by youth workers to be behaving in an anti-social way more and more.

“With support from youth workers, Cameron became involved in community clean-ups. He started with his own street and then parts of his wider neighbourhood.

“He has since volunteered to tidy up local elderly people’s gardens and, inspired by his uncle, he has established a social enterprise to help young people earn money at weekends and holiday periods. “The aims of his social enterprise include tackling social problems caused by youth unemployment and anti-social behaviour, improving community spirit and pride in public spaces, and improving young people’s life chances and the environment.”

Councillor Rhodes and Councillor Liz Plant, Committee Vice-Chairman for Children and Young People’s Services, helped to judge the overall awards.

Councillor Liz Plant said: “The awards night is always a very special occasion and we were delighted that so many people were able to have their accomplishments recognised though these awards. We had a fantastic reaction to our initial call for nominations once again this year and thank everyone for taking their time to get involved and promote just some of the fantastic things that young people across Nottinghamshire achieve every day.”

The annual 4Uth awards recognise the outstanding achievements of young people across the county for a variety of different areas such as outstanding achievement, caring for others, vital contribution within a local community and overcoming adversity.

Find out more about the 4Uth awards on the Nottinghamshire County Council website: www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/4uth2016

Mapperley Park Badminton Club season preview

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Mapperley Park Badminton Club season preview

After Team GB’s first medal in badminton for over 10 years, the uptake on badminton, locally, has increased significantly. Nottinghamshire are driving key initiatives around junior badminton and making a significant push to introduce new clubs into the league structure, writes Andy Shaw.

Utilising social media, local press and the internet are key to moving these initiatives forwards.

Here at Mapperley Park Badminton Club, the use of social media, local online publications and our own website, have helped us to grow our membership base significantly in the last 4 years.

This summer has seen us take in more new members than any other previous year, with nine new players (two juniors). This includes seven new ladies that have come to us from all over the county (and one just outside) We have added two extra teams, a 4th ladies team and 6th mixed team. Taking the total number of teams in the club to thirteen.

For the ladies, the new additions and the extra team will allow greater flexibility, where strength in depth has always been an issue. It will, without doubt, give the captains some tough choices this year when it comes to team selection.

The addition of two new men will greatly improve the 2nd men’s team, hopefully giving captain Con Truong the squad to propel them back into division 1. And the creation of a 6th mixed team will give greater opportunity to our juniors and those not currently playing mixed in the league.

It was a disappointing 15/16 season by the clubs standards, hopefully the additions and restructuring will set the club back on the winning path.

The season opened with the newly promoted 3rd ladies taking on the 2nd ladies in Division 2. As expected it was a tough learning curve for the 3rd team, losing 9-0 to a stronger 2nd team. There were two debuts for the 2nd team, Helen Smith and Anji Henderson. The 3rd ladies then travelled to Beeston Fields and suffered their second defeat in 10 days, losing 6-3. The 2nd ladies team then travelled to St Giles, Lisa Crouch back after absence, and secured another 9-0 victory.

The 1st ladies, boosted by the addition of Charlotte Close, opened their season away at Chilwell. They recorded a well-deserved 7-2 victory. Louisa Truong, partnering Charlotte Close, took all three rubbers.

A new look 3rd mixed team, captained by Kath Sutton after a one year absence, has started strongly. A 9-0 win away at Chilwell was followed by an 8-1 home success against Nottingham University.

After the disappointment of missing out on promotion last season, 2nd mixed were looking for a good start away at Byron. Despite James Watkins being unavailable they came away with a 6-3 victory, Nat Wright and Matt Haigh scoring a maximum.

5th mixed reward for promotion was an opening fixture against the 4th team.  The latter coming away with a narrow 5-4 victory, showing the strength in depth the club currently has.

One of two new teams this season, 6th mixed, got their season underway at Redhill, captained by Maxine Day, they recorded a 6-3 victory, with all three pairs taking two rubbers.

The 1st men’s opened their season away at Forest in the Premier division. Andy Shaw had a full strength team at his disposal. They produced the performance of the season so far, winning 6-3 an early boost in their bid to remain in the Premier division for the third straight season.

After a disappointing campaign last season the 2nd men’s were looking to get off to a strong start this time round.  An opening fixture, away, against Crusader presented an opportunity to gather early momentum. A strong all round performance, with debutant Fred Thuaud impressing, ended with a resounding 8-1 victory.

Masses of ladybirds reported across Gedling borough area

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Masses of ladybirds reported across Gedling borough area

Plagues of ladybirds have been spotted around the Gedling borough as they seek shelter in warm houses.

Residents from Arnold, Carlton and Netherfield have been taking to social media to share accounts of seeing large numbers of the bugs climbing over windows, furniture and foliage at home and work.

Terry Bennett was one of the people to contact Gedling Eye.

The 55-year-old from Arnold said: “It’s like something out of a horror film – they’re everywhere.

“We came out of work for a cigarette break and they were swarming around one of the wall. They were flying around getting onto people’s clothes, in their hair and everywhere.”

Tina Sanders said they had also been spotted in Bestwood.

She said: “They are all over my wall in the back garden. I don’t mind as they are really pretty – better than flying ants like we had in the summer.”

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