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Inspector Chris Pearson: April update from Gedling’s neighbourhood policing teams

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Inspector Chris Pearson: April update from Gedling’s neighbourhood policing teams

Inspector Chris Pearson is responsible for Gedling’s neighbourhood policing team. His officers help uphold the law across the entire borough. Here he provides an update on policing activities that took place during April…

Staffing

We have now been joined by PS 2638 Andy Clarke who has moved from the City Division. Andy will now lead the Neighbourhood Policing team at Carlton. PCSO Tom Packer also joins us following a career break and will be based at Jubilee House in Arnold. Tom will join PC 3484 Groves working in the Killisick and St Mary’s area.

Priority Updates

We are continuing to focus on burglary, autocrime, violent crime and anti-social behaviour.

In terms of burglary we have seen a slight increase of two offences in April with hotspot areas of Carlton, Porchester, Colwick and Gedling. We are continuing to carry out patrols with response and neighbourhood officers involved and I would ask that you remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to us.

As the lighter nights and slightly warmer weather are now with us, I’d also ask that you ensure that windows and doors are left closed and locked. We know that offenders are targeting properties that are insecure.

Unfortunately we had a report of an alleged burglary on April 1 in Castleton Avenue, Carlton whereby a vulnerable female was targeted. This is still under investigation and I’d like to thank everyone who shared our appeal.

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In terms of autocrime, we have seen slight reductions and two prolific autocrime offenders from the Gedling area are now in prison.

We had two BMW’s stolen from the Mapperley area where it appears
that a device has been used to compromise the ‘keyless entry’ system. I’d
encourage owners of cars with keyless entry to consider purchasing a faraday bag which will help to stop the signal of the keys when not in use.

We have seen some slight increases in anti-social behaviour particularly over the Easter holidays. We will not tolerate anti-social behaviour and we will work together with our partners at Gedling Borough Council to deal with any identified individuals. I know that we are examining CCTV of some of the reported incidents and where appropriate further is being taken.

In terms of violent crime we have now charged three males with public order and weapons offences following an incident of disorder on Flatts Lane in Calverton at the end of March. This investigation is still ongoing and we are working with partner agencies to deal with those involved.

Unfortunately on April 10 a serious assault took place outside Ben’s Barbers
on Plains Road, Mapperley. A 51-year-old male out jogging was hit to the head before being stamped on and kicked whilst he was on the floor. We will simply not tolerate violence and I’d urge anyone with any information to contact us quoting incident 99 of 10th April or alternatively contact Crimestoppers anonymously.

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Knife Crime

I know that knife and violent crime continues to be a concern. This month I met with the Gedling Youth Council where we discussed the topic of knife crime. It was a really useful to get the feedback of young people and we are now looking at how this might help us across the area.

Op Sceptre in March was a great success in Gedling. We carried out plain clothes and high visibility patrols across the area and visited individuals at risk of carrying knives.  A knife test purchase operation was also carried out across the area as well as knife sweeps in some public spaces. We also carried out a number of stop searches following information from the public. We were assisted by partner agencies including the Gedling neighbourhood wardens.

I’ve also now taken delivery of two metal detecting arches and a number of metal detecting wands which will shortly be deployed in the community.

In other news…

I met with the Ravenshead Neighbourhood Watch at their AGM recently. PCSO Kirsty Szeluk gave an update on policing in the area and we discussed crime prevention advice. It is great to see so many members of the community involved and I’m looking forward to meeting other groups of the coming weeks.

I’ve also been looking at how we interact with the community across the Gedling borough. We are now finalising a refreshed plan of engagement in which I hope that the neighbourhood teams will increase the number of events held such as beat surgeries. Please look out for these advertised in the local media and on our social media pages.

I also met with colleagues from local authority housing last week where we discussed how we can work more closely together in order to effectively deal with anti-social behaviour. PS Helen Walker is also working with colleagues from the council regarding a detached youth work project. A pilot has already taken place in the Arnold area and we are very much looking to extend this work over the coming months.

Finally, in terms of road safety PCSO Szeluk joined volunteers in the Ravenshead area following complaints of speeding. We are looking to repeat this work over the coming weeks. We also spent time addressing speeding in Calverton following feedback from the community. Five motorists were dealt with for offences. I have also met with the Fire Service this week to discuss how we will jointly work together to deliver a message around road safety over the summer.

Morrisons in Netherfield will be soon offering customers plastic-free fruit and veg areas

Emily Sanchez
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Morrisons in Netherfield will be soon offering customers plastic-free fruit and veg areas

A supermarket in Netherfield will become one of the first British stores to roll-out plastic free fruit and veg areas.

Customers will soon be able to pick up 127 varieties of fruit and veg either loose or in recyclable paper bags in Morrisons, with the grocer rolling out the new initiative shortly.

The loose fruit and veg areas will be rolled out in Morrisons stores during the course of 2019 – but customers will still have the option of buying packaged fruit and veg as well.

The chain’s new ‘buy bagless’ shelves are expected to save an estimated three tonnes of plastic a week – or around 156 tonnes a year.

Morrisons

Drew Kirk, Fruit and Veg Director at Morrisons said: “Many of our customers would like the option of buying their fruit and veg loose. So we’re creating an area of our greengrocery with no plastic where they can pick as much or as little as they like. We’re going back to using traditional greengrocery and we hope customers appreciate the choice.”

The latest initiative is just one of the many being introduced by the chain to reduce plastic. So far recent changes have led to over 9,000 tonnes of problematic plastic waste being removed from its production.

Morrisons has removed over 600 tonnes of unrecyclable polystyrene from branded food and drink products, and a further 1,300 tonnes of plastic will be removed following the launch of paper bags in stores this month.

When the scheme launches locally, the supermarket will sell paper bags alongside plastic reusable carrier bags.

It will start selling both types for 20p, having phased out 5p carrier bags in the past year.

Morrisons marketing director Andy Atkinson said: “We are taking another meaningful step that will remove an estimated 1,300 tonnes of plastic out of the environment each year.”

HMRC refund scam warning to Gedling borough residents

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HMRC refund scam warning to Gedling borough residents

People in Gedling borough are being warned to ignore any emails claiming to be from HMRC stating that they have been issued a refund.

The emails, which have been doing the rounds across the area, contain a link which you are encouraged to click on, and you will then be asked to enter your credit/debit card details in order to ‘receive’ the refund.

These are not legitimate emails. HMRC will never contact you via email or text message regarding refunds. If you are due a refund, you will be notified via post.

Here are some things to look out for that will help you to identify whether or not an email is legitimate:

1) The email address that the email has been sent from will likely bare no relevance to the organisation, be spelt incorrectly, have additional letters/numbers, or be from an email provider that is available to the public e.g. Hotmail, Gmail etc.

2) The email will often contain spelling errors, grammatical errors, poor punctuation, or appear unprofessional.

3) The email will prompt you to enter your personal details such as bank account information.

If you receive an email or text message purporting to be from HMRC, do not click on any links, delete the message, and if in doubt contact HMRC directly using information from the government website.

Do not use the contact details provided in the email or text.

You should always contact Action Fraud if you are targeted by fraudsters

Netherfield war veterans to pay visit to National Memorial Arboretum to mark anniversary of D-Day landings

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Netherfield war veterans to pay visit to National Memorial Arboretum to mark anniversary of D-Day landings

A group of war veterans from Netherfield will be among a group of 50 embarking on a trip to the National Memorial Arboretum on Wednesday (May 22) to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Nottinghamshire County Council is organising the visit as part of its Veterans Together scheme, where groups of veterans aged over 65 meet around the county to socialise and take part in activities and commemorative projects.

Since the scheme was launched in June 2017, projects have included photography, gardening and cookery sessions. One of the four groups currently running is based in Netherfeild.

The National Memorial Arboretum is a 150-acre site which acts as a place of remembrance which is administered by the Royal British Legion to honour this country’s fallen.

 Cllr Keith Girling, armed forces champion at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “The Veterans Together Network is an excellent project which brings older veterans together and helps to improve their mental health and wellbeing.

 “The trip to the National Memorial Arboretum will be a fantastic way for the veterans to commemorate the anniversary of the D-Day landings, which takes place in June, and share their own memories from their time in the armed forces.”

The cost of the visit is being funded by the NCC and breakfast and lunch are included.

 You can also find out more about the Veterans Together scheme by visiting: www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/supporting-armed-forces or phoning 0300 500 80 80.

REVIEW: Fairport Convention at Lowdham Village Hall

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REVIEW: Fairport Convention at Lowdham Village Hall

Another spring, another Warthog Promotion’s Fairport Convention gig.

The Lowdham leg of the band’s spring tour has now become a tradition. That said, the band have enviable canon, which, largely thanks to Chris Leslie’s song writing, is constantly growing. Thus, each Lowdham visit provides a different menu.

For this show the stage was bedecked with banners for Fairport’s annual music festival, the Cropredy Convention, in August and for Dave Pegg’s recently released memoir, Off the Pegg. Fiddle player Ric Sanders jokingly remarked, ‘The kind of book that once you put it down it’s hard to pick up again!’

One audience member pointed out that he had bought an LP, The History of Fairport Convention (perhaps a premature title!) in the mid-70s and by that time there had been dozens of members of the band. The current line-up of Leslie (multi-instrumentalist and vocals), Pegg (bass and vocals), Simon Nicol (guitar and vocals), Sanders (fiddle) and Gerry Conway (drums and percussion) has been stable fixture for some decades, however. For this gig Conway had pared back his normal drum set up to a synthesised drum, Cajon and a variety of percussion instruments.

Newer songs included Shuffle and Go, about an Oxford Teddy Boy, DIY themed Devil’s Work, and Moondust and Solitude. Leslie confided that as a boy he had an interest in the Apollo missions and Moondust had formed from his vision of astronaut Michael Collins orbiting the moon whilst Armstrong and Aldrin made their landing. Leslie also introduced My Love is in America a story of a young, courting Irish couple who both left their home country to find work. He to England and her to America. Written from the man’s perspective, it is a story unresolved. ‘I’ll leave you to make up your minds how it ends,’ challenged Leslie.

Nicol shared that they always aim to play something from the seminal Liege and Lief album. To this end, the atmospheric Crazy Man Michael made a welcome return to the set, as did Ralph McTell’s Girl from The Hiring Fair, much to the delight of Mike Hoare, chief Warthog. The rest of the repertoire spanned the Fairport career with mentions of folk luminaries such as Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick, Sandy Denny and Julie Matthews.

Mid show, Sanders delivered a short stand up comedy interlude featuring one-liners on stair lifts, Donald Trump and funerals. Tim Vine would have been proud! At the end of his stint Sanders introduced Jonah’s Oak, an instrumental which celebrates a famous tree in the Cropredy field with plaques in memory of folks who had associations with Cropredy. There are ashes of some spread beneath the Oak.

‘This is our now legendary 19 verse but two chord finish,’ announced Nicol, before launching into Matty Groves. An encore of Thompson’s Meet on the Ledge in memory of passed friends broth the evening to a close.

‘We’ll hopefully see you again next year,’ was Fairport’s comment. I’m sure we will.

Six Sikh ceremonial swords stolen during burglary in Mapperley

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A family have been left ‘distraught’ after six Sikh ceremonial swords were stolen from their home in Mapperley.

Police are now appealing for witnesses and information following the house burglary in Kenrick Road, between May 3, 2019 2.30pm and May 6, 2019 10pm.

The kirpans stolen in Mapperley

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: “Six kirpans (Sikh ceremonial small swords) have been stolen which has left the victim distraught as the items have a significant meaning to the family.

“A kirpan is a small sword or dagger originating from the subcontinent, carried by Sikhs.

They added: “It forms part of the religious commandment given by Guru Gibind Singh in 1699 in which he demanded that Sikhs must wear the five articles of faith at all times. The kirpan being one of the 5Ks.

If you have any information please call Nottinghamshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 888 of 6 May 2019.

Police appeal after theft of mountain bike on Carlton Hill

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Police appeal after theft of mountain bike on Carlton Hill

Police are appealing for witnesses and information following a robbery of a mountain bike on Carlton Hill.

The incident happened at 5.55pm on May 12, 2019 in the lower car park of Tesco.

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PICTURED: Tesco on Carlton Hill

The mountain bike is a black Carrera Vengeance mountain bike with white details, they include the name of the victims name on the rear left triangle and a silver coloured peace sign sticker on the stem.

There are also black and white plastic spoke covers on both wheels.

Anyone with any information is urged to call Nottinghamshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 636 of 12 May 2019 of 12 May 2019, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Teenager to appear in court after being found in possession of knife in Arnold

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Teenager to appear in court after being found in possession of knife in Arnold

An 18-year old man from Mapperley is due to appear in court on Monday, following an incident in Arnold last night (May 17).

Nottinghamshire Police say they were called at around 8.30pm yesterday to a report of a man in possession of a knife outside a residential address in Stanhope Crescent, Arnold.

Officers attended the scene and arrested a 18-year old man in connection with the incident. A knife was also recovered nearby by officers at the scene.

Jadon Carnelly-Morris, 18, of Sandford Road, Mapperley, was charged with possession of a knife and a public order offence. He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday, May 20. 2019.

REED POND NATURE RESERVE: MP calls on wildlife group to keep site in Lambley open to the public

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REED POND NATURE RESERVE: MP calls on wildlife group to keep site in Lambley open to the public

A local MP is calling on a wildlife group to reconsider plans to sell off Reed Pond nature reserve in Lambley.

Last week Gedling Eye revealed Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust are planning to auction off the site due to lack of funds to maintain its upkeep.

The site is a popular beauty spot and also home to wildlife, including birds and fish.

The decision sparked outrage in the local community, with residents criticising the Trust, who were given the land by previous owners the Burks family to keep it in public use.

MP for Sherwood, Mark Spencer has now raised concerns about plans to sell off the nature reserve, which lies in his constituency.

He also revealed that the Trust are planning to auction off the Osmanthorp Orchard nature reserve in Edingley – also in the Sherwood constituency.

Reeds Pond Nature Reserve (PICTURE: David Hallam-Jones)

The Trust have said that both sites would be sold off through an auction process.

Mr Spencer said he is now lobbying the Trust to keep both sites open.

He said: “I have been contacted by many residents over the last couple of weeks regarding these two fabulous natures reserves which are currently owned by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. It is regrettable that NWT are to have the two sites valued and then sold through an auction.”

“I am reassured that Reed Pond in particular is not for development and that NWT are assuring me that they want the sites to stay in use for public enjoyment.

“I am disappointed that NWT have chosen to sell these two sites and the feeling of dismay and concern amongst residents of Lambley and Edingley just shows that nature reserves are there for the people to use and enjoy and therefore it may be possible to think about getting ‘community bids’ together and of course all Parish Councils are on-board and aware of the situation.”

Mark Spencer MP

The MP is now advised local residents to get in touch with both him and the Wildlife Trust to let them know their feelings on the proposed sell off of the nature reserves.

He added: “I am liaising with NWT and local Parish Councils and will keep constituents up to date via press releases and social media.”

Last week a spokesman for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust said the decision had been ‘difficult’

He said: “Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust can confirm that we have advised Lambley Parish Council of our decision to offer the land adjacent to Reed Pond House Lambley for sale.

“This very difficult decision has been made because we need to prioritise our commitments and generate additional funds to ensure our work across the county remains sustainable.

“We recognise this decision has caused considerable concern locally but claims that we are selling the land to developers are misleading. The land is not being sold as a development site.

He added: “No date has been set for the sale and we expect to have further dialogue with the Parish Council next week.

“We hope to find a solution whereby the site’s wildlife interest can be retained, but we do need to sell the land.”

  • Should the land be sold for auction? What can be done to keep it open? Let us know in the comments section below.

Newstead and Woodborough share the spoils in Tour of Britain ‘best dressed village’ contest

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Two villages have shared the spoils in a competition rewarding those that transformed their communities in celebration of last year’s Tour of Britain event.

Newstead and Woodborough have been named as joint winners of the competition organised by Nottinghamshire County Council.

Both villages this week were presented with unique signposts honouring their victories.

Cllr Sue Saddington, met with local residents and parish council members from both villages during her final week as the Council’s Chairman to present the award.

She said: “The ‘best dressed village’ signposts are a legacy to these villages’ roles in making the Tour of Britain a real spectacle when it came to the County last year.

PICTURED: Newstead residents are pictured with their signpost outside The Pit micro pub

Residents in villages and towns across the county embraced the international sporting event and put up miles of bunting, flags, decorative yellow bikes and creative displays to welcome some of the world’s top cyclists as they raced 215kms through the county.

Woodborough resident Deborah Bliss decided to enter her village for the competition.

PICTURED: Woodborough residents (l to r) Simon Hall, Chairman, Margaret Briggs and Deborah Bliss

She said “We were very pleased to have jointly won and now have this signpost in place.   

“Our displays, which took several meetings in the local pub to plan, were inspired by community spirit, pride in our village and wanting to give the cyclists a warm welcome as they sped through Woodborough. 

“They included many yellow bikes, metres of bunting and a display of yellow hoops and wheels. 

“Scarecrow figures falling into hedges and other fun features were added by homeowners and Woodborough Wood’s Foundation School pupils. On the day, yellow twirling umbrellas among the huge crowd completed the display.

“We were supported by local residents, the Parish Council , Woodborough  Community Association and local businesses, in particular Timmermans Garden Centre and Woodborough Park Farm and their magnificent land art creations.” 

Newstead businesswoman, Lorraine Horrocks, runs The Pit micropub in Newstead. She entered the competition on behalf of her village.

She said: “Jointly winning this award was a very proud moment for this community and we hope it inspires others to join in with future community events and celebrations. 

“Everyone got involved and dedicated many hours of their time; from the local sewing group,  the local youth club, The Newstead Centre, The Pit Micropub, CAST Angling Project as well as other local residents and Gedling Borough Council.

“Newstead Parish Council provided hundreds of metres of bunting and balloons which adorned the length of the route through the village. We even have a permanent cycling-related installation created by live on the day by local artist Toz Flanders.”

The signposts are located on the Governor’s Field in Woodborough and next to The Pit micro pub  in Newstead

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