Gedling police officers seized an electric scooter and a ‘large knife’ from a 15-year-old boy following hius arrest in a Colwick supermarket car park.
Police on patrol spotted the scooter while on patrol close to the Sainsbury’s store around 2pm on Sunday (2).
A short time later they spotted a suspect entering the supermarket.
He was detained in the car park following a foot chase and during searches officers recovered a large knife.
A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with possession of a knife in a public place and using a motor vehicle without a licence or insurance.
He is expected to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on 12 November 2025.
Sergeant Alison Riley said: “We are receiving frequent reports of antisocial behaviour involving the illegal use of electric bikes and scooters in our communities.
“The use of these machines is often linked to knife crime, drugs, antisocial behaviour and other forms of criminality.
“Following this incident a scooter and knife have been taken off the streets and a suspect placed before the courts.
“Neighbourhood officers have held days of action to target the issues around e-bikes in Gedling and discussions with our partners about it are ongoing.”
A series of services and parades have been organised across Gedling borough to honour the sacrifices of the armed forces and emergency services this Sunday.
Every year the borough comes together for Remembrance Sunday.
A period of silence is held each year to remember the people who have died in wars around the world.
Gedling Borough Council has announced various Remembrance Day services taking place. Residents are invited to attend and join.
In Arnold, the annual service will take place between 9-11am and will begin with a parade that will include members from the Royal British Legion, British Army, RAF Cadets, Arnold Army Cadets and Boys and Girls Brigades.
The parade forms at 9am at the Victory Club on Church Drive East and at 9.20am will march towards St Paul’s Church for a service of remembrance that begins at 9.45am.
At 10.30am the parade leaves the church and marches to Arnot Hill Park, via Mansfield Road, Sir John Robinson Way and Nottingham Road.
A remembrance service will take place at the war memorial from 10.50am, with a two-minute silence at 11am.
The parade will then march from the war memorial in the park to the Arnold Victory Club via Nottingham Road and is due to end at 11.40am.
All roads affected by the parade will be closed from 9am – 12pm.
The event in Gedling will start at All Hallows Church at 10am with a church service, followed by a procession to the nearby war memorial at 10.45am. A wreath laying ceremony and Act of Remembrance will then take place. At 11am there will be a two-minute silence, followed by a parade to Gedling Memorial Hall.
In Mapperley, they will mark Remembrance on Sunday, Nov ember 16. The band and parade will assemble at the Mapperley Top car park on Bonington Road at 10.35am. They will then march along Woodborough and Plains Road to the Mapperley War Memorial on the corner of Woodborough Road and Woodthorpe Drive.
There will be a service and Act of Remembrance, followed by the Last Post and a two-minute silence at 11am. Following the memorial service, the parade will march back to Bonington Road.
In Calverton, those taking part in the parade will meet at Calverton Working Men’s Club at 9am. A Remembrance service will then take place at St Wilfred’s Church from 10 until 10.30am. A parade will the make its way to the Cenotaph on Mansfield Road for the Act of Remembrance.
The parade will then return to the working men’s club and be dismissed at 11.45am. Tea and coffee will be available at the club afterwards.
The following roads will be closed across the borough for the parades on Sunday morning:
The following email was received from the Community Ambassador at East Midlands Railway (EMR) in response to my queries around how to pay in cash before boarding the train. The email read: ”The purpose of a Promise to Pay slip – issued by the Smart Kiosk (SK) machines at Carlton and Netherfield – is to give customers a cash payment option where a machine will not accept cash. “To obtain a Promise to Pay, there are just a few buttons to press on the SK. The customer then uses this slip on board the train to buy the ticket with the guard, using cash.
EMR added: “We’d like to reassure you that we could not expect any Revenue Protection Officer to issue a penalty fare to someone physically unable to use a SK to obtain a Promise to Pay – like a disabled person.”
I have found how to obtain a Promise to Pay ticket from the SK. Touch the screen and 4 options will come up. Bottom right-hand side is the one you Want. Touch this and you will be asked to type in your destination. Carlton or Netherfield are automatically given as the station you are travelling from. If you type in ‘Derby’, it will show a number of stations with Derby in their name, so press ‘Derby EMR’. Press to continue and it will ask how many are travelling. Choose ‘4’ if you want a group travel ticket. Press ‘continue’ and it will issue a Promise to Pay ticket, which you can present to the guard who will issue you with the ticket required. Promise to Pay tickets are valid for two hours and payment is required in cash.
None of the posters tell you that you have this option, so some people have been put off travelling by train.
TIMETABLE CHANGES
Drastic changes are being made to train times at Carlton from December 14. Netherfield will also lose the 08.55 to Skegness, replaced by one at 06.40! The timetable will be released mid-November, I have obtained some of the new times from December 14. During day times trains at Carlton are every hour with trains in the daytime going through to and returning from Lincoln every hour. Also Burton Joyce is at last getting an hourly service. On Sundays, from late morning, Carlton will get an hourly service.
ENGINEERING WORK
Always check when travelling at weekends. I know that on Sat, November 8, the Nottingham to Skegness service will be a bus from Grantham to Sleaford and on Sunday (9) it will be a bus from Nottingham to Sleaford.
On Saturday, November 15 and Sun 16 Nov there will be no trains between Nottingham and Leicester with bus replacements in place.
EMR NEWS
ANPR car parking is being installed at stations across the network. Nottingham is scheduled to be introduced on Monday, December
Secret fares: book in advance and specify a timeslot (morning, afternoon, evening) and find out 24 hours before departure what train you are booked on. Example of savings – London to Nottingham from £15 and Nottingham to Norwich from £16. Visit https:/secretfare.seatfrog.com
New class 810 ‘Aurora’ trains: Entry into service is now expected from late 2025 with a phased roll out continuing through 2026.
Other changes to train services from December 14th: Lincoln to Matlock trains will run every hour via Nottingham. Every 2 hours these trains will continue from Lincoln to Cleethorpes and return. The Nottingham to Leicester local service will be an hourly shuttle. This means that no direct trains will run from Carlton to Leicester or return.
20 YEARS OF STATION ADOPTION
In October 2005 I wrote to Central Trains to say I was interested in the Station Adoption scheme. It was April 2006 before I was allowed to start, but distributed the winter 2005 timetables. I have always tried to promote rail travel and remember back to 1960 helping my father, who was Station Master at West Hallam, to deliver leaflets in the area advertising an excursion to Blackpool for the illuminations. It was a popular trip that got back around 03.15am on Sunday Morning. In the mid 1990’s I obtained permission from British Rail Publicity Department to print (duplicate) timetables which I distributed locally to places like Canton library. I also wrote to British Rail to see if more trains could call at Netherfield. Their reply was that it would interfere with trains on the East Coast mainline, as this was before the new chord line was put in at Allington Junction. Skegness trains had to then use the East Coast line from Grantham to Barkston Junction and then branch off to Sleaford.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
No trains on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in our area. Trains run a weekday service on New Year’s Day from around 09.00am.
News that Carlton is getting regular direct trains to Lincoln from December has been warmly welcomed by many that I have talked to.
£3.3 million is being spent on two platforms at chesterfield to improve their structural integrity. It will not affect train services and is due for completion in March 2026.
Work to revamp paths, remove and replace ramps and a staircase is to take place at Cleethorpes to make it disability access compliant.
Britain’s biggest phone networks have joined forces in a bid to put an end to crooks bombarding Brits with cold calls from overseas call centres.
BT, EE, Vodafone, Three, Virgin Media O2, Sky, TalkTalk and Tesco Mobile have signed a new telecoms charter with the Home Office and commit to stopping scammers using fake numbers to impersonate banks and government departments.
They will block foreign call centres from spoofing UK numbers within the next year and roll out new call tracing tools to help police identify scam operations.
The agreement, signed at the BT Tower, comes as the scale of fraud continues to climb.
Figures from UK Finance show that criminals stole more than £629m in the first half of 2025, up three per cent on the same period last year. Investment and romance scams recorded the sharpest increases, with losses of nearly £100m and £20m, respectively.
Under these new measures, calls from overseas will be clearly marked as such, stopping bad actors from disguising themselves behind local or official-looking numbers.
Approximately 96 per cent of mobile users decide whether to answer based on the number displayed, according to government data.
New call tracing technology will also provide police with better intelligence on domestic scam operations. Meanwhile, mobile firms have pledged faster support for victims, reducing response times to two weeks.
Fraud minister Lord Hanson said that the government wanted to make the UK “the hardest place in the world for scammers to operate.”
The Home Office stated that the commitments would also enhance data sharing between networks and law enforcement, enabling regulators to identify which providers are failing to prevent suspicious traffic.
The measures come following a sharp rise in AI-enabled scams, with scammers using software to clone voices and generate deepfake videos.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has declared a Critical Incident as a result of sustained pressures across the Trust and in particular the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) Emergency Department (ED).
The impact of the pressures caused by a prolonged period of sustained demand, challenges around staffing, flow and discharge in the organisation is resulting in significant waits in ED and admissions to wards, despite tireless efforts from staff across the Trust.
When the incident was called, just after 4pm on Tuesday 4 November, there were 24 ambulances waiting outside of the ED at QMC and large numbers of people in the department.
The Trust has implemented a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) at the weekend and issues with the technical roll out of the product has added to the ability to manage the current levels of pressure.
The Trust is asking members of the public and patients to carefully consider whether or not they need to attend ED, only attending in an emergency. Those with planned appointments should continue to attend unless told otherwise.
Andrew Hall, Chief Operating Officer at NUH, said: “Our staff are working tirelessly to care for patients, but the pressure on our services is causing very long waits and this is causing overcrowding in our ED.
“We know how frustrating this will be to people waiting in the department. Our staff are working as hard as they possibly can to get to them as soon as possible. Unfortunately, some of our colleagues have experienced abuse from people waiting to be treated and we ask that they are treated with kindness and respect.
“The public can help us by only attending ED in an emergency and carefully considering other options, such as calling NHS111, speaking to a GP and visiting a local pharmacy.
“Our emergency services remain open and the public should continue to come forward as normal in emergency and life-threatening cases – when someone is seriously ill or injured, or their life is at risk. Our aim is to prioritise patients with the highest level of need and ensure that we continue to manage emergency care.”
How the public can help:
If your relative is due to be discharged from hospital and needs to be collected, please do so as early as possible. This will help our teams and free up a hospital bed for someone waiting to be admitted.
Only call 999 or attend ED for serious accidents and for life threatening emergencies.
Where the situation is not life-threatening, alternative support will be available through NHS111 online or by calling 111.
Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) treat injuries including sprains, strains, suspected fractures, bites, cuts, scalds and other non-emergency conditions. Waiting times are usually much shorter than ED.
Pharmacies can help with allergies, constipation, headaches, earaches and many other ailments. Many pharmacies are open and you can find opening hours for your local pharmacy here.
Please do not visit your loved ones in hospital if you have any flu or other respiratory illness symptoms – please wait until you are better to visit them.
Prior to Nottingham Forest taking on Manchester United, the match promised to be one of the more intriguing fixtures of the Premier League round. United arrived at the City Ground on the back of three straight league victories under manager Rúben Amorim, and their recent form has drawn widespread attention. Forest, meanwhile, have been determined to turn their own fortunes around amid their managerial change.
One player who has taken notice of United’s resurgence under Amorim is Morgan Gibbs-White who recently praised how United has been resurgent in recent weeks. Amorim’s side has rediscovered intensity, structure, and confidence, taking nine points from their last three matches. Those results included a hard-fought win away at Liverpool, sandwiched between home triumphs against Sunderland and Brighton.
Forest entered the clash as underdogs, and their wider outlook has been the subject of scrutiny. Many top non-UK betting sites currently list them at 11/4 odds for relegation, reflecting an ongoing battle to establish stability in a highly competitive league. Such platforms have become increasingly popular with local fans, thanks to their broad range of markets, quick payouts, and flexible deposit options. However, for Forest fans, those odds need to change fast as the team hopes to pull itself out of the mess before it’s too late.
Forest’s season has been marked by transition. The club has already changed managers twice, parting ways with Nuno Espírito Santo and Ange Postecoglou before settling into a new rhythm under current leadership. Despite those shifts, the team has remained competitive, producing moments of high-energy football but lacking the consistency needed to climb further up the table. The fixture against a rejuvenated United was a key test of their adaptability and belief.
Amorim’s arrival at Old Trafford looks to finally be having an impact. United have looked more cohesive and balanced in recent weeks, blending defensive solidity with sharper attacking transitions. The renewed confidence among his players has brought a sense of optimism that had been missing for much of the previous campaign. His approach has centred on aggressive pressing and intelligent use of possession, allowing the team to recover quickly after setbacks and maintain pressure over 90 minutes.
For Forest, the challenges ahead lie in getting back to the kind of form shown last season. They have already shown they can compete with top sides, having completed the double over United last season, which included a thrilling 3–2 win at Old Trafford in which Gibbs-White featured prominently. Reproducing that intensity will be essential if they hope to derail Amorim’s current run of success.
United’s improvement under Amorim has also sparked discussion about their long-term prospects. With momentum building and confidence restoring slowly since the pitfalls of Amorim’s shaky start and the memories of the Ten Hag era. Their recent consistency has given supporters renewed belief that a return to Champions League qualification is within reach, provided the current form continues through the winter fixtures.
As for Forest, the match represented more than just another league game. It was an opportunity to measure their progress against one of England’s biggest clubs and to signal that they remain capable of competing at a high level despite recent upheavals. Both clubs entered the match facing different pressures, United fighting to sustain momentum near the top, and Forest striving to find stability and confidence after managerial turbulence.
The organiser of a Christmas market in Arnold has sought to quash a concern that food stalls could conflict with regular business owners in the town centre.
A Christmas market is planned outside The AMP, which opened in 2022 and replaced the old Arnold Market site, towards the end of November and into December.
Organiser Natalee Onyeche has been seeking street trading consent for the market from Gedling Borough Council.
The consent would allow the market to operate on Friday, November 21 from 10am until 7.30pm, and then every Saturday from November 29 until December 20, between the hours of 9am and 3pm.
However at an environment and licensing committee meeting on Tuesday (November 4) a councillor said he was worried food stalls at the market may negatively impact existing businesses in area.
Arnold Christmas Market in 2023
Cllr Martin Smith (Con), a member of the committee, said: “I’m all in favour of the market in principle. But I’m just looking under the description of goods being traded; a variety of traders selling food – and that is the bit that concerns me somewhat.
“We have already got permanent shops in that vicinity selling food and drink and I am concerned this market will conflict with what those people who are there, seven days a week, actually sell.
“I am aware there is another market this lady has organised where there has been a conflict, which may well have been resolved now. But I am concerned about those regular traders. But everything else I am very much in favour of.”
A council officer said five food stalls are currently confirmed for the temporary market, including a chocolate stall, a crepe stall, and a Jamaican food and Indian food stall.
Natalee Onyeche, the organiser, spoke to say the food stalls offered items that were generally not readily available in the area.
“Generally it is a nice mix of food that is not readily available,” she said.
“In the other markets there have always been food and cake stalls, and it has been running for two years now. I haven’t personally had complaints about those.”
Changes were made back in 2012 to allow temporary permission to be granted for street trading in the area, which aimed to give the council better control over what activities and goods were traded to protect existing businesses and market traders now based at Eagle Square.
The streets outside The AMP were changed from a ‘prohibited street’ to a ‘consent street’ as a result.
“This has allowed for Arnold town centre to have craft fairs and a Christmas market over the last few years whilst protecting the interests of the Arnold Market traders,” the council added.
Members of the committee voted to grant the market trading consent, meaning the Christmas market will now go ahead as planned.Concern Arnold Christmas market could ‘conflict’ with regular traders
More than 9,000 people across the East Midlands waited over 45 minutes to be transferred from an ambulance to A&E during October.
The striking figure was revealed in an East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) board meeting on Tuesday (4) when discussing the performance of the service.
Pressure on the ambulance service has been growing in recent months, with the average handover time 31 minutes and 37 seconds in July, rising to 35 minutes and 35 seconds in August and being 33 minutes and 39 seconds in September.
Acute hospital trusts across the region have been running a 45-minute ambulance handover scheme since late 2024 and early 2025 in a bid to free up ambulance crews to better respond to more emergencies.
It was introduced at Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham in December 2024, at Royal Derby Hospital in January 2025, and was implemented at Grimsby Hospital and Scunthorpe General Hospital in February 2025 – it started in Leicester in March.
Thousands of patients across the East Midlands have been left waiting in an ambulance outside A&E longer than 45 minutes this year – but the figure has jumped by 2,500 in a month.
Speaking in the meeting, John Kelly, non-executive director, asked the board “do we know the number for the whole of October?”
Ben Holdaway, director of operations, told the board around 9,000 patients were waiting longer than 45 minutes to be handed over to A&E departments in October 2025.
Thousands of patients across the East Midlands have been left waiting in an ambulance outside A&E longer than 45 minutes this year
This is a jump from 6,500 in September and higher than 7,300 in August, and 6,100 patients both in June and July.
Dozens of EMAS vehicles were recently forced to wait outside Nottingham’s QMC on October 28, where 26 ambulances were counted queuing outside the emergency department bringing patients in.
Mr Kelly continued: “It feels like we have this conversation nearly every month.
“Clearly as an executive team you’re putting as much pressure as you can on the acute trusts to try do something about it before we get to when it’s going to be much worse – we all know it’s coming in the winter. But it’s already getting worse.
“I don’t have any sense of what could or should change so that in three months time it’s [better].”
EMAS chief executive, Richard Henderson, said “elements” of the trust’s winter plan have been working but it would be working “very closely” to make sure extra mitigations were put in place.
In the board’s meeting documents, which provided data for September 2025 – not including October – it says QMC had the most ambulance delays during September, with more than 2,700 hours lost and 32 percent taking longer than 45 minutes.
Across EMAS in September, nearly 4,400 ambulance handovers took longer than an hour, with QMC accounting for nearly a quarter of this with 1,066, followed by Royal Derby Hospital with 769 and Leicester Royal Infirmary at 635.
Speaking earlier in the meeting about general ambulance delays, Jackie Jones, non-executive director, asked the chief executive: “Has anything occurred that has resulted in this sudden [problem] or is this now how we expect it to be over the winter period?”
Mr Henderson responded: “I don’t accept or expect it to be like this and there are different reasons at different hospitals.
“I have spoken personally with a number of senior colleagues and chief executives to understand better the position and what actions are being taken to address this and I don’t believe it is the same issues at the different hospitals.
“But the net impact of that is there are many incidences where our vehicles are queuing and we’re unable to respond to the patients – the longer that takes, the longer it takes for us to be able to respond in the community.”
Oliver Newbould, associate non-executive director, asked what the impact of the delays had on patients waiting in their homes for an ambulance.
Keeley Sheldon, director of quality, said: “We’re monitoring those elements, monitoring professional minimum care standards and the impact of that on patient safety, deteriorations during delay or clinical intervention… there are minimum care standards that are reported on a daily basis.”
Mr Henderson told the board the Midlands is “more problematic” for ambulance handover delays and that focus must be given to improving timings in the larger acute hospital trusts so that other hospitals do not end up with large amounts of deflected “unplanned” demand.
A hospice based in Mapperley is celebrating after being rated ‘Good’ overall in its latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
The inspection recognised Nottinghamshire Hospice’s compassionate, person-centred approach, commitment to supporting people at the end of life, and the strong sense of teamwork among staff and volunteers. CQC inspectors praised staff for going above and beyond to ensure patients and their families receive dignified and responsive care.
Last year, Nottinghamshire Hospice supported over 2000 patients and families across Nottinghamshire, offering at-home care, group wellbeing sessions, and emotional support and counselling.
CQC inspectors praised staff for going above and beyond for patients and their familiesThe inspection recognised Nottinghamshire Hospice’s commitment to supporting people at the end of life, and the strong sense of teamwork among staff and volunteers
An excerpt from the report read: “Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity, and took account of their individual needs. We observed that patients and families were at the heart of everything staff did.”
In addition to the strong CQC result, Nottinghamshire Hospice has recently expanded opportunities for people wishing to begin a career in care. The hospice now offers on-the-job training for new care assistants, including those without previous qualifications, helping them gain essential skills, experience and confidence while working alongside the clinical team.
Palliative Care Assistant Lisa Barlow joined the hospice six months ago. When she applied for a role at the hospice, she didn’t expect to hear back.
“I didn’t think I’d hear anything because I didn’t have the qualifications, but the hospice offered me the chance to train on the job. The support here is second to none and everyone’s so welcoming and friendly. I’ve never worked anywhere like this in my life.”
For Lisa, it’s the personal connections that mean the most.
She said: “When I first met one patient’s daughter, she wasn’t sure she could leave her mum with me. I was still in training, shadowing one of the Registered Nurses. I told her, ‘I’ll look after your mum just like I look after mine, I can’t do any better than that.’ After that, she completely trusted me. That’s what care is all about.”
Rachel Hucknall, CEO of Nottinghamshire Hospice added: “We’re so proud of our team and the care they provide. This rating reflects the passion and dedication that every member of staff brings – especially our new care assistants, who are learning and growing with such commitment.”
Main Road, Gedling 09 November Road closure for Remembrance parade Responsibility for event: Nottinghamshire County Council
Mansfield Road, Daybrook 09 November Road closure for Remembrance parade Nottinghamshire County Council
Nottingham Road, Daybrook 09 November Road closure for Remembrance parade Responsibility for event: Nottinghamshire County Council
Sir John Robinson Way, Daybrook 09 November Road closure for Remembrance parade Responsibility for event: Nottinghamshire County Council
Main Street, Calverton 09 November Road closure Remembrance parade
Mansfield Lane, Calverton 09 November Road closure for Remembrance parade Responsibility for event: Nottinghamshire County Council
Breck Hill Road, Woodthorpe 08 November Roadworks, Delays likely for road closure Responsibility for works: National Grid
Carlton Hill, Carlton 09 November – 09 November Roadworks and delays likely due to lane closure Responsibility for works: Severn Trent Water
High Street, Arnold 06 November – 12 November Roadworks, Delays likely Responsibility for works: Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastru
Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce 06 November Roadworks, Delays likely Responsibility for works: Severn Trent Water
Brookfield Road, Arnold 05 November – 07 November Roadworks, Delays possible Responsibility for works: Severn Trent Water
Craster Drive, Arnold 04 November – 05 November Roadworks, Delays possible Responsibility for works: Severn Trent Water
Mapperley Orchard, Arnold 04 November – 05 November Roadworks, Delays possible for carriageway repairs to replace kerbs after the junction Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Martins Hill, Carlton 07 November – 11 November Roadworks, Delays possible Responsibility for works: Openreach
Nottingham Road, Ravenshead 08 November Roadworks, Delays possible Responsibility for works: Nottinghamshire County Council
Southdale Road, Carlton 06 November – 08 November Roadworks, Delays possible Responsibility for works: Openreach
