A new residential unit for people recovering from an acute phase of mental illness was opened in Gedling village yesterday.
Beacon Lodge will be run Nottinghamshire Healthcare in partnership with Turning Point an can accommodate up to 12 patients at a time.
The new unit will be based on the former Broomhill House site – which closed its doors in October 2015.
Over 30 people attended the event, including staff and service users, to mark the official opening of the new service which will run as a pilot for 12 months.
The unite provides support and intervention for people well enough to leave acute inpatient mental health care but requiring support prior to returning to independent living. Face-to-face support is always available 24 hours a day 7 days a week and planned weekly sessions to ensure progress is being made towards the goals of each service users’ stay and independence.
The grandmother of a Bestwood girl who died of a brain injury has been jailed for seven years for cruelty after a retrial.
Juanila Smikle, 55, was convicted last year of cruelty towards seven-year-old Shanay Walker, who was found dead at her home in Bestwood in July 2014, and also to three other children. She was originally sentenced to four years in prison.
Smikle appealed against the conviction and a retrial was ordered.
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Youngsters in Gedling borough will be able to enjoy cheaper unlimited travel on buses across the city following the launch of a new ticket which is available from today.
Nottingham City Transport’s new Under 18s Day Ticket – which has been launched just in time for Goose Fair – costs only £2.50 for journeys around the city, or £5.00 to travel as far afield as Southwell or Loughborough on NCT’s network.
The age limit for child fares was increased from under-16 to 18 back in August on some NCT buses to aid those stopping in higher education who travel into the city; this new ticket now includes cheaper travel across the entire network.
The launch of the ticket comes at a time when NCT has officially been awarded “hero status” by a national campaign spearheaded by 16-year-old Emily Stott from Beeston.
Facebook users in Gedling borough are at risk of their accounts being hacked and then used to con money out of their friends, security experts have warned.
Scam-busting agency Action Fraud say fraudsters are hacking into Facebook accounts through unknown means and then changing the password and phone number of the owner.
The fraudsters then message the hacked victims’ friends to ask them to receive payments through PayPal for various reasons.
They also ask for their phone number so they can communicate through WhatsApp.
A healthcare trust is inviting people in Gedling borough to nominate a local healthcare professional for recognition at their annual awards event.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s Outstanding Service Contribution and Recognition Scheme – or OSCARS for short– takes place each year and nominations are invited from people both inside and outside the Trust. The whole process comes to a climax at the awards night, when the winners in each of the categories are announced.
This year the trust has introduced a Volunteer of the Year Award to specifically recognise and celebrates volunteers achievements and the valuable contribution they make to the Trust’s services.
Two young apprentices have been snapped up by a Mapperley school after wowing their interview panel.
Amy Barber and Beth Evans have been taken on at Hazel Hurst School in Westdale Lane and will take up their places alongside the school’s existing and experienced staff from today (4).
The pair will undertake a carefully supervised combination of work and study that the school on Westdale Lane said will equip them to become valuable assets to other places of learning in the future.
People in Gedling borough will be amongst the thousands making their way to Nottingham’s world-famous Goose Fair when it opens tomorrow.
The fair, which is open until Sunday, October 9, is one of the most famous travelling fairs in Europe, with 720 years of history dating back to the middle ages. The Fair has gone ahead almost every year since, with brief interruptions when plague broke out, and again during the two world wars.
Over 500 attractions, rides and games will travel to the Forest Recreation Ground for the fair, including classic favourites like the waltzers, carousels and Hook-a-Duck, plus the famous Cake Walk and gallopers. Big returning attractions for 2016 include the Log Flume, Reflex SuperSpin, and the Bomber Mach 5.
A licensed entertainment venue added in 2015 – the Moose Bar, will again be at the fair, with a covered seating area and a small beer garden. A selection of premium lagers, ales and wine will be available, as well as soft drinks. People will not be able to drink outside the licensed area.
Visitors to the fair can also take advantage of cash machine facilities which will again be available on site – situated at the tram stop entrance and the Gregory Boulevard entrance.
Men from Bestwood and Arnold were amongst a gang who have been jailed for supplying drugs worth more than £1 million.
The gang were sentenced to more than a century in jail after police uncovered their supply of high purity Class A drugs, which was being moved through Northamptonshire into Nottinghamshire from London.
Between July 2015 and November 2015 officers from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), working in conjunction with colleagues from Nottinghamshire Police and Northamptonshire Police, conducted a detailed investigation into members of the groups’ movements and associations.
They found Mirjan Kola’s Northamptonshire gang was supplying Blerim Aga’s Nottinghamshire gang with drugs to then deal on the streets.
As a result of the investigation officers seized more than 7kgs of cocaine, with a potential street value of around £1 million, half a kilo of cannabis, worth in excess of £7,500, and quantities of ketamine, MDEC (recreational designer drug ethylone) and morphine.
In a reflection of the extent of the group’s illicit activities a stun gun, pepper spray, deal bags and scales, false identity documents and more than £63,000 in cash were also recovered.
In engraving, there are of course a number of technical steps that need to be taken, however the first and most important stage of the process is the customer.
Mapperley’s Joblot Trophies & Gifts offer a personalised, bespoke service to each of their customers, taking time to understand their individual requirements.
While some customers want something simple, a loved one’s name or a special date added to a gift, others have something more specific in mind.
Joblot’s tailored approach enables them to help create a bespoke request from our customers, whether that’s a logo, design or imagery on glass, wood or metal. We take our time to listen and advise on material, design or finish to make sure their item is truly special.
We invest time in each of our customers and each item that passes through, because after 30 years’ experience we have learnt that all good things take time.
Once Joblot has determined the item and design, they can then begin the craft of engraving. The process varies according to the material but there are some initial steps that must always be taken. Preparation is everything. The items they most commonly engrave are made of metal and the process is quite straightforward, but again time and care must be taken.
EXPERIENCED Joblot Trophies & Gifts shop on Woodborough Rd in Mapperley
Measurements are inputted into CAD software and meticulously evaluated to ensure the layout is perfect. When this is completed, the design is sent through to the engraving machine where a diamond drill removes the top layer of the metal through a combination of shading and outlining, very much like the process of drawing.
When it comes to more complex materials such as glass, the beginning process is much the same, however the way in which we handle the item itself differs. Glass objects require a very slow speed of engraving and the item is sprayed with a specialist polish which enables a smoother finish. It is more time consuming to do this, but the results are definitely worth it.
Joblot Trophies invest time in each of their customers and each item that passes through, because after 30 years’ experience we have learnt that all good things take time.
