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Neighbourhood policing inspector for Gedling borough updates on crime fighting progress made during April and May

Gedling neighbourhood policing team's Inspector Heather Harding has provided an update on how they have progressed on tackling crime across the borough.

Neighbourhood policing inspector for Gedling borough updates on crime fighting progress made during March and priorities for April

Gedling neighbourhood policing team's Inspector Heather Harding has provided an update on how they have progressed on tackling crime across the borough.

NCC Leader: I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved during my first 100 days in office

At 28, Cllr Sam Smith is one of the youngest council leaders in the country. He was elected as Leader at the Full Council...

Letters: Make me leader of town board

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: A tram to Gedling is ‘much needed’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

NCC leader: ‘Road repairs a priority in latest budget’

The council leader says roads will be the priority as he reveals latest budget

Letters: Local politicians should unite in celebrating funding success

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Tony Cave: New higher rail fares now in force at borough stations

Station adopter and local train expert Tony Cave brings us the latest news from our borough stations and railways

Letters: ‘Nimby’ complaints about battery site ‘hilarious’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Having business centre based in Arnold makes ‘no sense’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Lots of ambition for Arnold – but nowhere else

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Wetherspoons would boost trade at Carlton Square – not half-hearted revamp

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

LUCY LINTON: How TikTok is driving a book-buying renaissance

For those aged 16-25, 59% said that BookTok or book influencers helped them discover a passion for reading.

Letters: Council needs to realise Arnold is ‘white elephant’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

TONY CAVE: Hourly weekday train service being reinstated at Carlton

The latest news from our local railways from train expert and station adopter Tony Cave

Letters: Fireworks are blighting our lives

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Use parking charge to fund direct bus service to park

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: ‘Unfair’ to blame our local MPs for pensioner fuel allowance cut

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Here’s hoping borough chimney smoke ban wins backing

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Pensioners need to ‘do their bit’ to help plug black hole

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Has new Labour MP been absorbed into the Westminster bubble and given up on Gedling already?

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Give free bus travel to pupils, not pensioners

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Time for crackdown on ‘illegal’ e-scooters

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Bus to Gedling Country Park should be ‘priority’ for next MP

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: It’s time to pedestrianise Netherfield town centre and save lives

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Action needed now that ‘disgraceful’ local food bank figures have been revealed

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: £20m cash MUST be spent on Carlton

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Local shoplifters should be named and shamed

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Motorists need to be more respectful of cyclists

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Council need to ‘get grip’ on stalled Rolleston Drive development

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

TONY CAVE COLUMN: Track trespasser causes havoc for Carlton train passengers

Tony Cave is a train station adopter who looks after Carlton and Netherfield. He also provides Gedling Eye readers with the latest news from our local railways...

Letters: Our councils should spend money on what matters

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Give pensioners compulsory driving tests

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Potholes are ‘green dream’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Why should public have to fix pothole problem?

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Really depressed by erosion of local countryside

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

TONY CAVE COLUMN: New figures show local station usage is on the rise

Tony Cave is a train station adopter who looks after Carlton and Netherfield. He also provides Gedling Eye readers with the latest news from our local railways...

Letters: If our calls are important to you then PICK UP THE PHONE!

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: MP should do more to help homeless

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: E-scooter attitude make me wonder why we have any laws at all

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Delighted by Levelling Up bid rejection

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Drivers should turn off their engines when stuck in traffic

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Carlton GP Dr Ian Campbell asks for patients to be supportive of surgery staff who are ‘trying their best to help’

Dr Ian Campbell is a GP at Jubilee Park Medical Practice in Carlton and shares his thoughts on the NHS with Gedling Eye

TONY CAVE COLUMN: An hourly service at Carlton again would be just the ticket for local rail passengers

Tony Cave is a train station adopter who looks after Carlton and Netherfield. He also provides Gedling Eye readers with the latest news from our local railways...

Letters: Parents on school run create parking ‘nightmare’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

GRAHAM FINCH: For me, cash will always be king

"If you don't want our money, you don't want our business - simple!"

Your pleasure is their terror: Graham Finch thinks it’s time to ban fireworks for the sake of pets and pensioners

Occasional Gedling Eye columnist Graham Finch says he wants councils to start tackling cyclists who prefer pavements to roads...

Letters: HS2 cash should be spent on Carlton to Matlock trains, not tram

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Wheelie annoyed: Graham Finch thinks that cyclists should stay on the road and get off our pavements

Occasional Gedling Eye columnist Graham Finch says he wants councils to start tackling cyclists who prefer pavements to roads...

Letters: Most people in borough won’t be shedding tears over Levelling Up call

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Gedling Country Park becoming ‘pointless’

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Roadworks nightmare continues for Netherfield residents

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

Letters: Speed cameras needed on busy Arnold road

Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.

MP Mark Spencer column: I’m backing calls for Calverton road repairs

Since my last column, a lot has changed in Westminster.We have a new Prime Minister and a new Government in place, and we...

MP Mark Spencer’s column on mini-budget, energy bills and tributes to The Queen

In this month's column, Sherwood MP Mark Spencer MP discusses the mini-budget, reflects on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and shares what he has been up to in Sherwood

MARK GLOVER: Any suggestion that fracking will bring down our energy bills is pie in the sky

Business and energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg officially announced the lifting of the ban on fracking on Thursday (22)

Dr Ian Campbell: The Government really IS out of touch with what’s happening in general practice if they think their two-week GP appointment plan...

Dr Ian Campbell is a GP at Jubilee Park Medical Practice in Carlton and shared his thoughts with Gedling Eye

OPINION: I fear for future of Hobbucks Nature Reserve if Killisick Lane land sale isn’t managed properly by council

Blogger and environmentalist Howard Usher shares his fears around the development of land around the Hobbucks Nature Reserve in Arnold

‘REFUGEES WELCOME HERE’: Carlton GP Ian Campbell says NHS must offer Ukrainian refugees the help ‘they so desperately need and deserve’

"The United Kingdom is rightly opening its doors to allow some people at least to take refuge here. But can we cope?"

OPINION: Carlton GP Ian Campbell thinks Levelling Up white paper is a huge opportunity wasted. 

Dr Ian Campbell has been a GP in Carlton for 30 years. Here he has his say on the government's recent Levelling Up white paper

OPINION: The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and amplified what many of us already knew: the NHS is no longer able to cope, says Carlton...

"I’ve been a GP in the Carlton area for 30 years and I’ve never known things to be so bad."

ELAINE BOND: Why does moving house become so stressful?

In this month's column Elaine talks about the best ways to manage stress when moving home...

Coronavirus anxiety: Dealing with the easing of lockdown

Gedling-based counsellor Elaine Bond aims to help those feeling anxious about restrictions being lifted

A bridge too far: Graham Finch thinks that a solution to the city’s traffic crisis shouldn’t cost the earth

"As the world faces a huge climate crisis, this insistence on pandering to the road user seems out of touch."

MARC WILLIAMS: ‘Why would I want to go and watch that?’

Groundhoppers. Raffles. Togetherness - all synonymous with non-league football. This is the proper game and there is nothing else like it.

‘The Gedling Access Road offers no benefits at all to existing residents’

The Gedling Access Road only offers a short-term solution to our traffic problems, says Philip Oddie from Willow Farm Action Group...

MARC WILLIAMS: Jose Mourinho wins his Spurs

Mapperley-based sports writer Marc Williams shares his own opinions and thoughts on national footballing topics.

GRAHAM FINCH: This general election is about so much more than just Brexit

"When will people realise that the approaching General Election is about much more than bloody Brexit."

OPINION: If we cleaned up our own mess, the council wouldn’t be forced to waste tight budget on borough litter problem

Philip Oddie of Willow Farm Action Group thinks we need to take responsibility for littering around the borough...

OPINION: Carlton Academy expansion isn’t enough to solve borough’s secondary school places problem

Local parent Ben Hemstock writes that 362 children will still be without a secondary school place in 2023

OPINION: Wildflowers aren’t dangerous invaders from outer space like many fear on Twitter

Local blogger Howard Usher doesn't agree with Gedling Borough Council's use of weedkiller...

PHILIP ODDIE: Litter problem now reached ‘epidemic proportions’

The reality is that we cannot simply sit back and expect that Gedling Borough Council will be able to collect all of the rubbish that is deposited onto our streets and parks.

OPINION: Selective licensing scheme is ‘clearly a stealth tax’

James Stephenson from the Woodthorpe Ward Conservatives thinks residents in the borough deserve a better scheme.

OPINION: We could be much more powerful by speaking as one

Councillor Kay Cutts is Leader of Nottinghamshire County Council. She is urging people in Gedling borough to have say on unitary council plans

OPINION: Borough school places will be in short supply if housing plans go ahead

Philip Oddie wonders where our children will be educated if the council continues with their housing strategy

PHILIP ODDIE: It’s time to consign borough’s litter problem to the dustbin

Philip Oddie is a member of Willow Farm Action Group and a resident in Gedling. He thinks more should be done by the council to tackle the borough's litter problem

MARK GLOVER: Council need to take action to protect and enhance our local biodiversity.

Mark Glover is a local conservationist. He thinks the Teal Close development will have a negative impact on a nearby nature reserve
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