Three teenagers have been arrested in Top Valley after a moped was reported as stolen.
Officers conducting proactive patrols sighted three youths riding a stolen moped on Beckhampton Road at around 7pm last Wednesday (November 3).
After a short pursuit officers then found the abandoned moped and quickly arrested one of the teenagers at the scene.
Further enquires later led to the arrest of the other two suspects.
Three boys aged 13, 16 and 17, were arrested on suspicion of theft of a motorcycle, going equipped for theft and possession of a bladed article.
The 13-year-old boy was also arrested on suspicion of assault, two counts of robbery and three counts of theft.
The 16-year-old suspect was also arrested for possession of cannabis.
All three have since been released on bail with conditions.
PC John Cross, of the city north Operation Reacher team, said: “We received a report of a stolen moped and after a short pursuit found it abandoned but were able to act very quickly and detain one suspect at the scene.
“The further two suspect were also then tracked down and arrested.
“We are now investigating this incident and our enquires are on going but we would like to urge anyone who may have witnessed what happened to get in touch.”
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact Nottinghamshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 647 or 4 November 2021.
Santa is set to arrive in style at Brookfields Garden Centre later this month to meet with local children before embarking on his annual festive delivery route.
Mr Claus will be visiting the centre on Mapperley Plains on Saturday, November 20 and will arrive in a beautiful horse-drawn carriage at 12pm.
The popular festive figure will then make his way through the centre greeting families and posing for photos and will stay in store during the afternoon. He will also be joined by Milkshake the elf and her loyal friends.
A £50 Brookfields voucher will also be up for grabs as part of a photo competiton. To enter just post your photos from the day to the centre’s Facebook page
PICTURED: Elves at Brookfields Garden Centre (PHOTO: Facebook/Brookfields)
The centre’s on-site restaurant Arthur’s Eatery will be serving a special festive menu on the day including hot roast rolls and homemade Christmas treats.
To help create that special jolly atmosphere Burton Joyce Community Brass band will be playing well know festive songs.
A face painter will also be available on the day.
A spokesman for the centre said: “Can we please ask that our customers park responsibly on the day, this event can get busy and our car park is usually full by 11am.”
Council chiefs have outlined their intentions of turning Gedling into a greener borough.
Gedling Borough Council say they have ambitious plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030 after declaring a climate emergency back in 2019.
To make this possible they have now launched The Carbon Management Strategy which contains actionsto reduce the carbon footprint of the borough and help tackle climate change.
The new plan has six key areas where the council, residents and businesses can do something to reduce emissions levels. Those key areas are in home building, transport, energy generation, behavioural change, waste reduction and recycling and improving infrastructure to offset carbon.
The consultation will run until next month and residents and businesses are invited to have their say by visiting: www.gedling.gov.uk/climate-change where the full strategy and action plan can be viewed.
Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor John Clarke said: “We are very proud to announce our plans on how we will become net zero by 2030.
“During a week where leaders from across the world are taking part in COP26, here at Gedling we are asking our residents to give us their views on our proposals to reduce carbon emissions in our borough over the next 10 years.
“This is a significant moment where actions will speak for themselves and we have over 100 actions that we believe will make a real impact but we need our residents and businesses to have their say on the strategy.
“If we are going to meet the targets we need everyone to play their part, this is our moment to do something that will leave a legacy for our future generations.
“Let’s work together and make Gedling a greener Gedling.”
What do the council plan to do?
Within the strategy, there are over 100 actions that the council will aim to achieve over the next few years. These include the following:
Work with housing developers to achieve sustainable constructions
Increase the number of electric vehicles used by the council and encourage more people to reduce journeys in cars and use bio-gas public transport
If someone told you you could lose weight without going on a diet you might not believe them.
But hypnotherapist Sam Culshaw-Robinson helps you do just that, using tried and tested techniques which no low-calorie recipe book can match.
The testimonials and recommendations on her website outline how successful she has been in encouraging a new way of thinking and behaving.
Sam runs her Live Well Practice in Carlton and helps people lose weight, stop smoking, deal with chronic pain and phobias.
A timely therapy she offers is to rid clients of any anxiety over needles and injections. This is good news for anyone scared of having a Covid jab or who needs a vaccination for work or a vaccine passport to get into a nightclub or event.
The way Sam works is fundamentally to encourage people to feel better about themselves.
Sam said: “Someone who overeats often has underlying feelings of unhappiness, trauma or depression or it can be habits ingrained in childhood. I work on the unconscious mind which is a hugely powerful thing. More than 95% of our behaviour is unconscious.
“Our whole day is mostly carried out in an unconscious state. This is a good thing in some ways because if we had to think deeply about every action, we would be exhausted by 8am!”
Sam uses her calm voice to hypnotise her clients. For people new to the procedure, it is nothing like stage hypnosis which gets people to do crazy things like bark like a dog.
Sam said: “Hypnosis changes brainwave activity. Just like REM sleep, it uses a different frequency of brainwave to release the creative part of your brain to work better.
“For weight loss, it helps you get out of the rut of reaching for food to comfort yourself.
PICTURED: Hypnotherapist Sam Culshaw-Robinson
“The whole process is based on the fact that the creative part of your mind can find solutions. I also teach mindfulness to help clients calm those emotional responses.”
Sam offers sessions face-to-face at her Carlton clinic or on Zoom. She said: “It surprises some people that I can help people via a computer screen.
“It means clients can be in an environment where they are relaxed, and I encourage them to wear headphones to cut out any noise.
“If my client is a parent or carer, it means that they need to arrange for someone else to take the kids and the dog out or look after their elderly relative. That way, she can have some me-time.
“That way, they are defining that space for them and them only. It is surprising how often that alone is a giant step.
“Some other clients like to see me face to face and give themselves permission to travel to see me and focus on themselves.”
The way Sam’s therapy works is to help her clients visualise how they want to be and feel. As opposed to restrictive diets which focus on how they don’t want to be.
Her clients are encouraged to remember a time when they felt amazing in the past. Sadly, some people have never felt good about themselves. We can use techniques to imagine just how amazing looks and feels.
Sam said: “Mindfulness helps you accept those feelings which have built up over the years. I help the ‘new you’ become more attainable.”
The inspiration to set up her practice in 2010 came from a family member who developed anxiety and missed a year of education. Sam started investigating the different ways she could help, and she became fascinated by how the mind works.
Sam has a practitioner diploma in hypnotherapy, an MSc in workplace health and studied for an NHS foundation course in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. She offers four, six and eight-week courses, often depending on where the client is on their journey.
One man Sam helped was 67 years’ old and who quit smoking after more than 50 years. The motivation came from the constant complaints from his grandchildren.
Ken said: “After two sessions with Sam I no longer feel the urge to smoke and after 50 years of smoking that is a mighty statement. I expected to be climbing the walls and shouting at everybody, but it just hasn’t happened.”
She has even tried it herself. “I was once scared of heights and after therapy I ended up going for a hot air balloon ride on my 50th birthday. I never felt so good!” Sam said.
As Remembrance Sunday on November 14 approaches, veterans groups around Gedling borough are working with Gedling Borough Council on planning special events to mark the occasion.
Last year saw many annual celebrations cancelled due to Covid, and it is likely some of this year’s events will continue to look a bit different from what people are used to from past years.
Nevertheless, veterans and serving members of the armed forces will be out with civic dignitaries and members of the public this month to mark the occasion and remember all those who have given their lives for their country.
Among the events taking place this year are the following:
This event takes place on November 14th and begins at 9am.
A parade will form at 9am at the Victory Club on Church Drive and will march off to St Paul’s Church for the service of Remembrance at 9.15am
The parade will then leave the church and form up for the march to Arnot Hill Park via Mansfield Road, Sir John Robinson Way and Nottingham Road.
People will then assemble at the Memorial in Arnot Hill Park at 10.45am for a wreath-laying ceremony.
Between 11:15-11:30am the parade will march back to the Victory Club via Nottingham Road and onto Church Drive for an 11:45am finish.
Gedling Remembrance Service and Parade
Proceedings commence with a service at All Hallows Church in Gedling on Sunday, November 14 at 10am.
At 10.45am, following the service, guests will make their way out of the church and form up into a small parade down to the War Memorial.
There will be an act of remembrance at 11am and wreath laying, before parading back to the church where coffee and refreshments will be available.
Mapperley, Porchester & District Remembrance Parade
This parade takes place on November 21st.
At approximately 10:35am The band and parade will assemble at the Gedling Borough Council Car Park on Bonnington Road, which is behind the TSB Bank on Plains Road in Mapperley.
The band will then lead the parade from the car park onto Woodborough/Plains Road Mapperley and head towards Mapperley War Memorial, on the corner of Woodborough Road and Woodthrope Drive.
Once at the memorial, there will be a short service, followed by the Last Post, two minutes silence at 11am, laying of wreaths and closing prayers.
Following the memorial service, the band and parade will march back to the starting point where the national anthem will be played.
Daybrook Remembrance Parade
This year’s commemoration will begin at St Paul’s Church, Daybrook at 9.15am.
The parade will arrive at the War Memorial in Arnot Hill Park by 10.30 for a short service of Remembrance.
Laying of wreaths will take place at 10.45am followed by an Act of Remembrance at 11am.
Environmental campaigners from across Gedling will be heading into Nottingham city centre tomorrow (November 6) to demand radical action on climate change.
They, along with hundreds of other campaigners from across the city, will gather at the Forest Recreation Ground at 1pm for speeches before marching down Mansfield Road to an event at the Old Market Square at 3pm.
The event, organised by the COP26 Coalition for Climate Justice, calls for an end to fuel extraction and the immediate emergency decarbonisation required to stay within a 1.5° C global temperature rise, as well as putting an end to the systemic climate injustice and exploitation of indigenous communities.
Speakers at the event will include former Nottingham South MP Alan Simpson, as well as representatives from Nottingham community groups like Stand up to Racism, DIY Poets, and the Pythian Club.
Members from more than 30 Nottingham groups will gather for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice to demand climate equality and reparation to the Global South.
Jean Thompson, 71, from Gedling, said she is taking part in the protest as she is worried about the future of the planet and the next generations.
She said: “I have children and grandchildren and they are all being affected by changes in the climate that are already happening such as extreme weather, floods, fires, great heatwaves and droughts.
“They would not have the quality of life that I have.
“If we don’t stop this, there won’t be enough land to grow food or clean water.”
Jean shares the Cop26 Coalition’s demands to stop new fossil fuel investments and infrastructure at home and abroad.
She said: “The oil, coal and gas companies are the ones who are causing the problem.
“There is an alternative. Clean energy, but unfortunately, we are already locked into global warming.
“It is already in the system. It is already happening.”
The 71-year-old pensioner also said that the local council can do a lot to reduce net carbon emissions.
But she feels that local authorities are limited by the big fossil fuel companies and investment banks.
She added: “The government has declared a climate emergency. What we want to do is to hold the government to account.
“Their job is to look after people, not fund fossil fuel.”
A statement from the Nottingham COP coalition reads: “2021 has seen floods and hurricanes to some of the biggest wildfires in history.
“The poorest people in the world and the Global South are disproportionately affected by these events, and this is already forcing a rising number of children from their homes with no way back.”
People from local groups will also take part such as the Green Party, the Woodland Trust, the Gedling Conservation Trust, and the RSPB among others.
Councillors have spoken of their desire to ease traffic concerns in a “lovely” Gedling village regularly used as a route to the M1.
Linby, which borders Hucknall and Papplewick, has been protected by a conservation area since the early 1970s, preventing overdevelopment on nearby greenbelt land and limiting new plans at its historic centre.
However, Gedling Borough Council recently launched an appraisal of the existing conservation area, with a consultation finding concerns over the level of traffic running through the village.
The main strip of road connects the A60 to the M1 at Junction 27 and is cited as the quickest route for people in parts of Gedling to access the motorway.
Councillors were told on Thursday how some residents have called for a bypass access road to ease the high volume of traffic and divert cars away from Linby and nearby Papplewick.
A council report warned how this traffic, coupled with upcoming developments at nearby Top Wighay Farm and the potential 3,000-home Whyburn Farm plans in Hucknall, could “impact upon village life”.
It adds the village is relatively well-hidden due to its landscape and character, with its “intimacy and seclusion only disturbed by the flow of traffic”.
The calls to ease traffic flow were met with support when the conservation area appraisal was discussed by Gedling Borough Council’s cabinet on Thursday (November 4).
Councillor Peter Ellis (Lab), the portfolio holder for the environment, said: “The biggest problem is the road, it’s so fast and it goes towards the motorway.
“Cars are coming down into Papplewick and through Linby at all sorts of speeds, and the village is being spoilt by the fact there’s so much motorway traffic going down there.
“It is really sad, it’s so dangerous. The properties there are fantastic, it’s a lovely area.
“That road is just about the quickest way to get from Arnold to the motorway. We ought to try, if it’s possible, to siphon off traffic from that part of the borough because it is a rat run.”
Cllr John Clarke (Lab), leader of the council, agreed and said he would support the creation of a road to improve safety.
Cllr Clarke, who also sits on the highways authority Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “With the comments that some people want a bypass road, this fits in with my long-term dream… to do what we’ve done with the Gedling Access Road and connect it to Junction 27.
“That would bypass the village and significantly siphon down traffic.
“There are thousands of homes going to be built near that area, with Top Wighay and the plans at Ashfield, which will have a massive effect on the quality of life of Linby and other villages.
“It would improve safety if we got that road.”
The updated conservation area document was unanimously approved by the cabinet.
It will see the continuation of measures to protect the heritage and landscape of the conservation area, and remove the possibility of large-scale development near the centre of the village.
A healthy living expert is urging borough residents to take care of their mental health after saving the life of a boy who threatened to jump off Trent Bridge.
Charlotte Stripling, owner of Simply Dance in Carlton, was honoured for her bravery with a police commendation and local award after supporting the youngster for four hours and talking him to safety.
She has now launched a new business called Charlotte’s Way to help people with their mental mindset.
The online tool and resource offer support to help reset the mind to find a happier, healthier you with affirmation cards to help turn negative energy into positive thoughts and feelings.
Charlotte is also running a Reset Retreat at Colwick Hall on November 14 with workshops including hypnosis, yoga, meditation and much more.
The event will also include a lunch, welcome smoothies and a goodie bag.
Speaking about her initiative, Charlotte said: “I’ve worked with young people and adults in the city for many years through my dance business and together we’ve worked through mental trauma and supported one another through difficult times.
PICTURED: Charlotte Stripling, who runs Simply Dance studio in Carlton
“The support available for people is limited and with such a rise in mental health issues, it’s a very overstretched sector.
“Charlotte’s Way is my way of offering support and helping people change their mindset to think more positively.”
Charlotte also said she has been suffering from mental health issues and depression since she was a teenager, and that mental health was not something people spoke about at the time.
She said: “I remember very clearly how I felt. I would get crazy thoughts that made me feel like a freak show, wanting to disappear, wishing I wasn’t here, wondering if anyone would care if I died.
“I hit rock bottom in my late 20’s off the back of a failed business which left me with huge financial burdens, the loss of my baby, being told I had PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) and potentially not being able to have children and the breakdown of my marriage.”
The 30-year-old businesswoman said she started to change things around when she began to work on her own wellbeing and mindset, through self-love and healing, which inspired her to start Charlotte’s Way and the Reset Retreat, to help others going through a similar path.
She added: “I want to support people through their journey to reset their mindset and work on their own mental wellbeing.”
Gedling Borough Council health and safety teams will “get to the bottom” of why there was a higher-than-average rate of staff injuries last year.
Council figures show there were 61 reports of employee injury across the authority in 2020/21, with 12 of these put down to Covid-related incidents.
However, over the past eight years, there were an average of 47 accidents and incidents each year, making last year’s figures considerably higher than in previous years.
It is the highest number of reports since 2013/14 when there were 62 injuries, and it is almost double the 31 incidents in each of the two years between 2016 and 2018.
The figures were revealed in documents published ahead of a cabinet meeting on Thursday (November 4), with members given an update on the overall health and safety picture.
The documents did not outline any specific cases or causes of the injuries, or what constituted a Covid-related injury.
But the figures did show that, even without the coronavirus incidents, there were 49 incidents reported at the council last year.
This is the highest since 2015 and is marginally higher than the eight-year average of 47 even without Covid incidents.
Commenting on the figures, Councillor David Ellis (Lab), portfolio holder for crime reduction and community safety, said: “This demonstrates it’s important not to blame Covid for everything.
“At this stage, we could easily fall into saying ‘last year was a strange year, everything was Covid-related, so there’s nothing to learn from that’.
“We mustn’t lose sight that there are some underlying issues.”
The data is coupled with a formula, named Accident Incidents Rate (AIR), which quantifies the number of incidents compared with the average number of employees.
Documents state there were, on average, 480 employees working at the authority last year.
To calculate the overall formulas, council officers multiply the number of injuries by 1,000 and divide the average employee number.
With the Covid incidents, the 61 injuries gave the council an AIR of 127. This figure was 102 without the Covid injuries.
For the previous four years, the AIR was 88, 82, 51 and 49, showing a marginal year-on-year rise in the rate of staff injuries at the council.
Grant Ilett, health and safety officer at the council, told the meeting: “[The 61 figure] was quite an increase on the average, but when you take out the number of accidents involving Covid-related injury reports, it’s not far off the average.
“But in terms of the accident incidence rate, it’s gradually been increasing year on year. If you remove the Covid-effect from last year, it’s still slightly increased.
“There’s quite a bit more work going on behind the scenes to get to the bottom of why this is, and to put some suggestions to management and SLT as to how we can address this moving forward.”
They conducted six stop-and-searches while on patrol.
Three people searched were found to be in possession of Class B drugs. Two of these three individuals, have been interviewed and reported for summons for the offence and one other is due to be interviewed at a later date.
As well as making drug seizures, the team have also taken two vehicles off the roads of Arnold. One vehicle was seized for not having any tax and the other for being driven without any insurance cover.
Those wanting to learn more about Operation Reacher and meet the team who will be on Carlton Hill on Monday, November 8 handing out freebies and talking to the public.
