Popular pub chain Greene King is giving Six Nations fans the chance to win £10,000 when they pre-book a table at one of their Gedling borough pubs to watch a match.
To enter the competition, customers must pre-book a table in one of the participating Greene King sports pub between January 16 and March 10 to be in with a chance of winning the prize.
The following pubs in the borough are giving rugby fans the chance to win £10k
The Guinness Six Nations kicks-off on Saturday, February 4, with Wales taking on Ireland in the opening game in Cardiff. Old foes England and Scotland will follow, before France look at defending their title with a strong start against Italy.
The tournament will conclude on March 18 following five rounds of fixtures across six weeks of action.
As well as the top prize of £10k, an additional 200 winners will be able to bag themselves a £50 Greene King gift card each to spend on food and drink throughout the tournament.
All competition winners will be announced by March 31.
Only tables pre-booked between January 16 and March 10 will be entered in the prize draw.
Chris Conchie, head of marketing for Greene King Sport, said: “The Guinness Six Nations is one of the biggest sporting events of the year, so to kick off the championship we wanted to give fans a really special prize.
“We’re delighted to have been able to partner with the official championship sponsor, Guinness, to launch this competition, giving fans the chance to secure their seat for the Guinness Six Nations and win a range of prizes at the same time.”
Petrol prices remain high across the country, as households across Gedling borough continue to be squeezed by the cost of living crisis.
Gedling Eye has compiled a list of the cheapest petrol pumps in Gedling borough. The data is sourced from PetrolPrices.com, which covers major service stations including brands like BP, Shell, and Texaco as well as supermarkets, smaller chains and independent stations.
The website combines price data from Catalist with its own crowdsource data, which comes from website users and forecourt owners. The site says it hopes to have “the most up to date and reliable price data across the industry”.
Here are the latest prices from across the borough…
Officers from Gedling were called in to help break up a suspected drugs den.
Officers carried out the twin house raids this morning (26) after receiving reports of drug activity.
A quantity of cannabis, remnants of suspected Class A drugs and weighing scales were all seized from the properties.
Drug paraphernalia, including equipment used to grow cannabis, was also found inside one address that was reportedly being used to produce drugs.
The warrants were led by the City North Operation Reacher team, with support from beat officers from the area and both the Radford and Gedling Operation Reacher teams.
Officers carried out this planned activity as part of neighbourhood policing week of action, which runs from January 23-29, 2023, and aims to shine a light on the importance of policing in the community.
Sergeant Zoey Price, of Nottinghamshire Police’s City North Operation Reacher team, said: “Our team carries out regular proactive warrants like the ones executed today that are led by intelligence received from members of the public or elsewhere.
“These warrants provide us with a great opportunity to effectively target individuals or groups that we believe could be involved in different types of criminality, including the production and supply of drugs.
“To use today’s operation as an example, we were able to follow up intelligence we received of drug activity and search two premises which led to the seizure of Class B drugs as well as remnants of suspected Class A drugs.
“Working in this way allows us to target particular individuals we believe may be breaking the law or up to no good, so that we can then hopefully bring them to justice.
“Operation Reacher plays a key role in neighbourhood policing and our main goal as a team is to serve the public and make the streets a safer place for those who live in the community.”
The next phase of work to revamp footpaths at Colwick Country Park will begin next week.
Improvements to paths around the northern and eastern edges of West Lake will start on Monday (30) and are expected to be completed by the end of March 2023.
Nottingham City Council, who are carrying out the works, say the park will remain open to users during construction and will be phased to minimise impacts to users.
From Monday, a section of the path at the park will be closed for three weeks to allow for widening and resurfacing work to take place. Visitors are being asked to use an alternative route during this time.
The closed path is shown in red on the map below. The alternative route is shown in yellow.
From Monday, February 20 subsequent sections of the path (the blue dashed line) will be widened and resurfaced. During the works the public is being asked to use an alternative route on the grass adjacent to the path, staying well clear of the works area. The area for these works is shown in blue on the map above.
Nottingham City Council said they apologise for any short-term inconvenience.
Woodborough Pre-School now has its own village-based pre-school allotment and the children are SUPER excited.
The pre-school, that caters for two, three and four-year-old children, has so many exciting ideas about what they are going to do with their new allotment – and the possibilities are endless!
Children will now be able to plant and nurture their own fruits and vegetables, which they will eventually be able to eat.
They will also plant and nurture flowers and make homes for local wildlife.
Pictured: Woodborough Village Pre-School visit their new allotment (Courtesy of Woodborough Village Pre-School)
Woodborough Pre-School Manager, Jade Topliss, told Gedling Eye that the children were keen to get to work.
She said: “We’ve already planned which delicious fruits and vegetables we are going to grow and children are particularly excited about the possibility of spotting frogs in the pond! Wellies at the ready, we’re excited for Spring!’
Preparation has now begun and planting will start on the allotment during February and March.
The pre-school would love people to help with the project and is urging people to get in touch.
They are also looking for donations of garden tools and / or seeds etc. to help the children gain as many exciting opportunities and experiences as possible.
Silent Disco – Arnold & District Ex-Service Club, Arnold
TICKET EVENT (limited tickets) £5 a ticket £6 on the door
It is a silent disco!!! this means you will be raving the night away with headphones on and you can select which dj you want to listen to on the headphones.
The Dynamos – Richard Herrod Centre, Carlton, 9.00pm
Pop duo, The Dynamos, will be singing a huge range of songs to keep you entertained all evening. From Abba and girl band classics along with top hits from the 60s, 70s 80s and 90s,…
Bachata Tuesday – The Punchbowl, Mapperley, 7.30pm & 8.30pm
Learn to dance Bachata (Moderna & Sensual Style) with Professional Salsa & Bachata Dancer, Performer & Renowned Choreographer – Bruno from Salsa Passion UK
A painter and decorator from Calverton who slashed a colleague in the face with a knife during a workplace row has been jailed.
Steven Brett punched the victim and bit him on the neck before pulling out a blade during the violent attack at a building site in Grantham Road, Bingham.
Brett, aged 35, of Ramsdale Avenue, was jailed for two years when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on Tuesday (January 24, 2023).
PICTURED: Nottingham Crown Court
He had previously pleaded guilty to wounding without intent and possessing a knife in a public place.
The altercation took place at around 10.45am on January 18, 2021 when the victim approached Brett, who was his supervisor, and asked him to resolve a workplace issue.
Brett quickly became aggressive and began shouting at the other man before swinging a punch at the victim which missed its target.
The victim tackled Brett to the floor in self-defence and both men crashed through a windowpane.
Brett then punched the man twice and leaned forward to bite him before the two were separated by other workers.
Brett pulled out a Stanley knife and ran towards the victim – knocking him to the floor.
While getting up, the victim noticed a large amount of blood pouring from his face and realised he had been slashed.
The man was left with a two-and-a-half-inch cut to his cheek and was taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham for treatment.
Detective Constable Andrew Sibley, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Brett launched this unprovoked and violent attack on a man he had previously had a perfectly normal working relationship with.
“Violence like this has absolutely no place in our society and this case should serve as a warning to other people that we take these offences extremely seriously.
“Incidents of violence will be investigated thoroughly and every effort will be made to bring offenders to justice.
“I am pleased Brett has been punished for his actions and is now behind bars.”
Netflix is to crack down on password sharing in a bid to convert ‘borrowers’ into paid account holders.
The streaming service first revealed in October that it was looking into ways to stop multiple people piggybacking off one account with plans to charge viewers who were caught sharing a package with people they don’t live with.
Netflix has now confirmed in its earning report it is rolling out a password-sharing crackdown near the end of March 2023 and by April, it plans to ensure anyone using its streaming service is paying their way.
Research firm Digital i estimates around a quarter of UK Netflix subscribers – around four million – are sharing their passwords.
At the end of last year, Netflix announced a cheaper ad-based subscription service in a bid to those sharing passwords in with a cut-price deal.
Households can pay just £4.99 a month to watch Netflix television shows and films interspersed with adverts – but they are only be available to stream on one device at a time.
Gedling Borough Council must pay back £150,000 to taxi operators in the area after a review found it had been overcharging for licences.
Conservative councillors in the opposition described the blunder as “embarrassing”.
The Labour-run council should have held separate accounts for drivers, vehicles and operators, however, during a Licensing Committee meeting on January 24, members were told that, historically, the council had not organised the accounts in this way.
An internal review was conducted last year, followed by another independent review by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), which found the council had been overcharging taxi operators.
It also found it had been undercharging for driver licences, which meant the council had been effectively subsidising this to the tune of more than £430,000.
Council officer Mike Hill, who was responsible for the report, told the committee: “It shows that the council has undercharged for driver licences between 2016/17 through to 2021/22, by £430,728.
“It has however overcharged for vehicle licences between 2016/17 through to 2021/22 for all but one year, which was 2017/18, in total the overcharge there is £124,186.
“The council has also overcharged for operator licences between the same period 2016/17 through to 2021/22, totalling £12,542.”
As a result the council is making arrangements for refunds, including interest, to be made.
It will cost the authority up to £150,000.
The council argued the undercharge had been subsidised by the authority itself, but members in the opposition stated operators themselves had been in fact subsidising by way of the overcharge.
Cllr Sam Smith (Con) said: “We need a better answer as to why this has been allowed to happen over six years.
“It has taken a taxi driver, that we as an authority licence, to bring this to our attention. That quite frankly is embarrassing.
“We are a service that we offer to those drivers and they should get it at a fair cost.
“It is not within their remit, we want them to go and drive residents around safely, not have to check that this authority is doing one of its basic requirements correctly.
“You say we are going to refund operators? Is it a one-off payment over six years?
“Operators have come and gone, do we have a list of operators that were in existence in that six year period? Will every single one of them get a refund even if they have closed now or are no longer licenced by us, we are not going to miss people who have been done out of money?”
Mr Hill replied: “We have subsidised the taxi licensing service overall, so it is not as if we have deliberately set out to do this.
“It was an error, we have admitted it was an error and we are endeavouring to put that right.”
Cllr Martin Smith (Con) added: “This phrase subsidise has been used a couple of times now.
“The council may well have been subsidising, but haven’t the operators been subsidising the service as well by the tune of £150,000?”
Chairwoman Cllr Marje Paling (Lab) responded to say this was correct and added: “That’s why we are putting it right”.
Single and double yellow lines are to be painted along two roads in Gedling to solve the parking issues.
The lines will be introduced on Wood Lane and Yew Tree Lane in response to obstructive parking.
Nottinghamshire County Council will now introduce single yellow lines along Wood Lane and double yellow lines at the Junction of Wood Lane and Yew Tree Lane following consistent complaints from residents about parking restricting visibility and movement in the area.
Parking issues have largely been caused by visitors to Carlton-le-Willows Academy and those visiting Gedling Woods.
PICTURED: The junction of Yew Tree Lane and Wood Lane in GedlingBLAMED: Many of those causing an obstruction in their cars had parked up to visit Gedling Woods, pictured
The single yellow lines will mean that vehicles cannot wait or park on the side of Wood Lane with the path between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday which will increase the safety of pupils walking to the academy.
Councillor Neil Clarke MBE, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “We have listened to local residents who have told us that parking is a large issue in their area.
“Wood Lane is a key route to access Carlton-Le-Willows Academy, both for vehicles and pedestrians, and it is important that everyone should be able to get to and from their place of education safely.
PICTURED: Cllr Neil Clarke said local residents had told the council that parking was an issue
“It is great that people want to visit green spaces like Gedling Woods, however doing so should not put other road users at risk and it is our hope that these parking restrictions will improve safety in the area.
“Our public consultation showed that there was good local support for the proposals. The single yellow lines will only be in operation in the daytime from Monday to Friday when the issues are most prevalent.
“This will ensure the restrictions have the greatest impact in improving visibility and assisting young pedestrians without unduly impacting upon residents outside of the busy periods.”
