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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.
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COUNCILLOR SAM SMITH: ‘We need to make sure voters realise national issues like immigration can not be tackled by the County Council’
Smith said the election had been 'tough' for Conservatives
Crime
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.
Opinion
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
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.
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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.
Latest News
NCC leader: ‘Road repairs a priority in latest budget’
The council leader says roads will be the priority as he reveals latest budget
Letters
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.
Transport
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
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.
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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.
Opinion
COLUMN: I will keep banging the drum for our wonderful county as new leader
New leader Sam Smith has outlined his priorities for Nottinghamshire County Council
Letters
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
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.
Opinion
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
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.
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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
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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Opinion
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
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
Letters: Give pensioners compulsory driving tests
Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.
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Letters: Potholes are ‘green dream’
Our readers from across the borough give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Gedling and beyond.
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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
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.
Opinion
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
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.
Opinion
GRAHAM FINCH: For me, cash will always be king
"If you don't want our money, you don't want our business - simple!"
Opinion
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
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.
Opinion
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
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
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
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.
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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.
Opinion
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...
Calverton News
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
Opinion
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)
Opinion
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
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
Carlton News
‘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?"
Carlton News
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
Carlton News
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."
Columns
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...
Opinion
Coronavirus anxiety: Dealing with the easing of lockdown
Gedling-based counsellor Elaine Bond aims to help those feeling anxious about restrictions being lifted
Netherfield News
Rachael Snarr: You don’t need The Body Coach Joe Wicks to stay fit when you have five kids on lockdown
The Netherfield mum-of-five shares what life is like on lockdown
News
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."
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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.
News
‘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...
Football
MARC WILLIAMS: Jose Mourinho wins his Spurs
Mapperley-based sports writer Marc Williams shares his own opinions and thoughts on national footballing topics.
Opinion
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."
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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...
News
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
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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...
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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.
News
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.
News
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
News
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
News
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
Opinion
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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