Police are investigating after a driver involved in a crash in Arnold was found with a stab wound to his leg.
Emergency services were called to Coppice Road at 6.10pm on Friday (14) following the collision involving two cars.
One of the drivers, a man in his 40s, had suffered a stab wound to his leg and was taken to hospital with serious injuries. A knife has been recovered.
Officers are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and a cordon remains in place at the scene while our enquiries continue.
Coppice Road has been closed at its junctions with Ravenswood Road and Catton Road. Drivers are advised to avoid the area if possible.
Patrols have been increased in the area to provide reassurance.
Officers are appealing to anyone in the area who saw what happened or who has any other information, including drivers who may have dashcam footage, to call us on 101, quoting incident number 742 of 14 December 2018, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
A man has been charged following two incidents at a the shop in Bestwood over two days.
Police were called to reports of a robbery which happened at around 8.40pm on Sunday (December 9) and an aggravated burglary at around 10.30pm on Tuesday (11 December) at the shop in Beckhampton Road.
On each occasion, the offender entered the store with a knife, first getting away with cash from the till then cigarettes and alcohol.
Matthew New, 36,of no fixed abode, was arrested and subsequently charged with one count of robbery, possession of a bladed article and one count of aggravated burglary.
He has been remanded to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ court at the earliest opportunity.
Gedling County Park’s Café 1899 has become a Plastic Clever Café as part of the council’s commitment to be a Plastic Clever Council.
The café has met the criteria set out by environmental champions Amy and Ella Meek who formed Kids against Plastic, who have been campaigning to get people to reduce their use of single-use plastics.
The cafe has taken a number of actions to become plastic clever including removing single use plastic bags, replacing plastic cutlery and plastic straws and encouraging visitors to use refillable mugs and water bottles instead of throwaway plastic ones. The café will also be selling reusable cup holders and introducing new loyalty cards for visitors.
The café accreditation is part of a number of initiatives set out by Gedling Borough Council to tackle the problems of the use of single-use plastics in the borough. In January, the council agreed a motion to stop the use of plastics in council owned buildings and a working group has been working on reviewing the council’s procurement of plastic and reducing the amounts they use significantly in council owned buildings.
Amy and Ella Meek launched the Kids against Plastic scheme in 2015 with a target to collect 100,000 pieces of plastic after learning the negative effect of plastic on the environment. They recently presented their campaign to staff at the council’s annual employee conference urging them to think before they use the big four polluters, plastic bags, cutlery, coffee cups and straws.
Café 1899, which was recently awarded with a certificate
of excellence by Trip Advisor for its ‘consistent achievement of high ratings
from customers’, is named after the year the former colliery opened and is
managed by Nottingham City Council and serves hot and cold refreshments, food
and has a fully licensed bar.
Kids against Plastic Campaigners, Amy and Ella Meek said: “We’re really pleased that Café 1899 has become our latest Plastic Clever Café and we’re really grateful for the continued support from Gedling Borough Council.
“We’ve nearly made all of the cafés down the Arnold high street Plastic Clever – just one or two left to work on – hopefully the Council can help us persuade them to become Plastic Clever one day. At least now when we take our dog for a walk at Gedling Country Park we know that we’ll see less single-use plastic littering the paths.”
Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor John Clarke said: “We’re committed to reducing the amount of single-use plastics we use in our buildings and with the help of the Kids against Plastic team, we have taken the right steps to make the Gedling Country Park Café plastic clever.
“We are also reviewing the plastic usage at our council offices and leisure centres as part of our pledge to be a plastic clever council. We must do more to tackle this issue and I’m delighted that we passed the very stringent assessments set out by Amy and Ella Meek who are doing a fantastic job of raising awareness of this important issue.”
Deputy Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Cllr Michael Payne, today joined calls for Cllr Kay Cutts to consider her position as leader of Nottinghamshire County Council after it was revealed plans for a ‘super council’ have been shelved indefinitely
Mr Payne said: “This has been a costly and flawed pet project from the start, and it’s disastrous when it comes at a time when the county council it is hiking charges for the most vulnerable disabled people in our county.
“If Kay Cutts had any self respect, having ignored the public’s opinion in the first round of consultation, she should consider her position as leader.
PICTURED: Cllr Kay Cutts
“She has damaged relationships, she had lots the confidence of county councillors, and lost the confidence of the public.
“We have had almost 7,000 responses in Gedling to our consultation on the future of council services, and I think that’s going to come out conclusively in favour of people wanting to keep their local council.
“But it’s important to remember that this hasn’t gone away completely. Councillor Cutts still wants to persue this idea, so we are going to continue our campaign, and will keep calling for he residents of Gedling to have their say.
“This is a real victory for people power. People in Gedling have spoken loudly and clearly.”
Plans to create a new authority that would have seen Gedling Borough Council abolished have been shelved, it was announced today.
The decision (December 11) was been taken two days ahead of a key vote which was due to take place on Thursday.
Either a single authority, or two large councils, would have been set up if the plans had gone ahead, with the current councils disbanded.
Supporters of the ‘super council’ said it would have helped save £27 million a year – savings which will now have to found from other areas of the county council’s already-squeezed budget.
The leader, Conservative Councillor Kay Cutts said the ‘super council’ plans were not being permanently scrapped, and hoped they would be revisited after local council elections in May next year.
Opposition leaders said Thursday’s vote was scrapped because the leader thought she was going to lose. Cllr Cutts denied that claim, and said she wanted “more time to work with the stakeholders” on other areas of cooperation.
DECISION: A vote on Super Council plans has been scrapped
The leader of the Ashfield Independents, Councillor Jason Zadrozny, said the scheme was a watse of public money, and called for Councillor Cutts to resign.
He said: “I am not surprised at all by this announcement but concerned nearly £250,000 of public money has been spent on a needless process. “I am today taking the regrettable step of calling for her resignation as leader of Nottinghamshire County Council. “We all have a duty to protect the public purse. Councillor Cutts has failed to do this and now should admit liability and do the honourable thing and step aside.
“At a time when council finances are in such a perilous state – she decides to spend hundreds of thousands on a botched scheme.
“Thousands of residents got in touch opposing these plans yet Kay Cutts ploughed ahead with this regardless.
“Councillor Cutts knew she would lose the vote and I am afraid she has lost the confidence of members from all parties.
“The only reason she has pulled this is to protect her job at the eleventh hour – just like Theresa May did on Brexit.” “I will be asking whoever is next leader of the County Council for an assurance that these proposals are scrapped forever.”
Asked whether the decision to pull the vote – which was due to be held on Thursday – was because she thought she might lose, Councillor Cutts said: “Not at all. This is an opportunity to keep talking to people. This is a long process – I’ve always said it’s a long process – and it gives us the opportunity to keep talking to people.
“We had the first, I felt, productive meeting on Wednesday last week (with the district and borough councils). Up until then it had been very much ‘we don’t want you to do this’, but this was a very productive meeting.
“There was a real willingness to help us find a way through this and a coming together, in fact to quote one district chief executive ‘things will never be the same again’. And they won’t.
“We still have to find £64 million in savings. It hasn’t gone away and there aren’t any easy solutions.”
A cancer patient from a hospice in Mapperley had one of her dreams come true last week when she got the chance to ride on a Harley Davidson.
The last time Phyllis Betts rode pillion on a motorbike was 45 years ago – and she fell off! Since then the patient at Nottinghamshire Hospice, has always wanted to get back in the saddle– her dream being to ride on a Harley Davidson.
Now that dream has cometrue, thanks to Roy Radford and fellow bikers from the Sherwood Harley Davidson chapter who came in convoy to the hospice to take Phyllis for a ride. Phyllis,of Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, rode pillion on the back of Roy’s Harley Davidson Ultra.
Phyllis, who has COPD and cancer,said: “I’ve always had a fascination with Harleys. They’re the bees knees, they were then and they are now. So when staff at the hospice asked what was on my bucket list that’s what I said. It was just a pipe dream – I never thought it would actually happen! I was excited about it and nervous too. You have to be careful what you wish for!
“I absolutely loved it. It was a very smooth ride. And now I’ve got a badge, I’ve been made honorary member of the Chapter!”
In her younger days Phyllis, originally from Derbyshire, used to ride pillion on a big silver Triumph, enjoying rides out to Matlock Bath and other popular biker destinations.
When other patients at the Day Therapy centre heard what Phyllis was doing they wanted to sponsor her, and she has now raised more than £400 for Nottinghamshire Hospice.
The group of six bikers took Phyllis and hospice nurse Bekki, herself a biker, out to Lowdham to pay a surprise visit to Phyllis’ daughter Becky who works as a chef in the World’s End pub there. Staff and regulars at the pub also contributed to Phyllis’ fund.
Liz Morgan, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Nottinghamshire Hospice, said: “Here at the hospice we try to help patients achieve their goals and make the most of the time that they have left. We’re thrilled to be able to help make this dream come true.”
Roy Radford, Director of the Sherwood Chapter for the past six years said: “We’re delighted to be able to help. It doesn’t cost anything and if it makes somebody happy it’s the thing to do.
“There is a wonderful camaraderie
among the Harley community and we’re always happy to help with things like
this.”
The Harley trip links in to Nottinghamshire Hospice’s Care at Christmas campaign which aims to give patients and their families the greatest gift of all this Christmas, time together to make lasting memories. The campaign aims to raise £50,000 which will enable the hospice to provide compassionate care, warmth and festive spirit to five families every single day in December, including Christmas day.
Police are warning people in Gedling borough to be vigilant after an increase in reports of calls from fraudsters claiming to be from the Force.
Those receiving a call are told their assistance is needed as part of an undercover operation usually taking place at the victim’s bank.
To make the call seem legitimate, the victim is told to call 999 and the fraudster is then staying on the line and posing as a call handler at the emergency service control room.
During these calls victims are asked for bank details, which the Police are reminding the public isn’t something a genuine officer would do.
A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: “We’ve seen a sudden increase in bogus police officer scams.
“If you’re ever unsure whether a call is legitimate, hang up, ensuring the line is fully disconnected, and call back on a number you know to be genuine, such as 101 for the police or the number off a bill or bank card for the banks.”
TIPS TO AVOID SUCH SCAMS
1. The police will never ask you to become part of an undercover investigation or for you to withdraw cash and hand it to them for safe-keeping
2. Be wary of any calls, texts or emails purporting to be from the police asking for your personal or financial details, or for you to transfer money
3. If you are approached, or feel something is suspicious, hang up the phone and do not reply. Then report it to Action Fraud and your bank on their advertised number
Ready-made homes which cost a fraction of traditional builds and can be installed at a rate of up to six a day are coming to a new housing estate in Gedling.
The modular houses are being built off-site by specialist builders ilke Homes. They will then be transported fully finished to Chase Farm.
Six three-bedroom houses will be constructed at the site and start from £180,950.
The house design boasts an open plan kitchen and dining area designed with flexible, modern living in mind. French doors lead out on to the garden to allow light to flood into the house.
The Chase Farm development is a partnership between the Keepmoat Homes, Homes England and Gedling Borough Council. Once complete, Chase Farm will consist of over 1,000 homes and a range of local amenities, including a new primary school, health centre, local shops and public open space.
Björn Conway, CEO at ilkeHomes, said: “Thanks to Government support and the increased appetite amongst house builders, modular housing will play a greater role in tackling the UK’s housing shortage. Without looking to modern methods of construction, such as modular housing, housing demand and targets simply cannot be met.”
James Thomson, CEO at Keepmoat Homes, said: We are looking to deliver over 4,000 homes this year and expect to use ilke Homes to deliver 10% of these. We are proud to partner with ilke Homes and to be a leader in the use of modern methods of construction.”
Gedling Borough Councillor Jenny Hollingsworth, PortfolioHolder for Growth and Regeneration said she was impressed by the new homes after getting a tour of the new properties.
She said:” This is a great example of how modern technology and engineering can speed up the delivery of much needed new homes. We were shown around the new properties and they looked no different to conventional builds and they’re very energy efficiency, which we welcome.”
A memorial bench honouring well-known members of the Carlton Hill community was unveiled in the Garden for the Blind on Friday.
Retailers in the area held a number of fundraising events over the past few months to pay for the bench which was unveiled at a ceremony attended by Gedling MP Vernon Coaker on Friday.
The fundraising drive was led by Piginns café owner Marie Jackson, who was inspired to pay for a bench following the death of loyal customer Richard Watkin.
TRIBUTE: Carlton Hill hairdresser Reno Monterosso is pictured by the bench that bears a memorial plaque commemorating the memory of his brother Paul, with whom he started the hairdressing business, Reno & Paul
She was left upset by Richard’s pauper’s funeral, where his remains were cremated in a cardboard coffin, and was inspired to create a lasting memorial for him in the community.
Other retailers got on board with the idea and a bench has now been created which will not only remember Richard, but other members of the local community who have since passed away.
SADLY MISSED Richard Watkin
Over £1,000 was raised to pay for the bench and after paying for the memorial, the remaining money was donated to the Age Concern charity.
Marie said: “It’s nice to know that people care about us even when we are no longer here and there is now a place where we can sit and recall our fond memories of those no longer with us.”
Police today executed a warrant at an address in Carlton in connection Officers with the theft of a tiara and a diamond brooch from an art gallery in Worksop.
Three men, aged 46, 38 and 33 and a female aged 30 were arrested on suspicion of burglary after officers executed warrants at addresses in Carlton, Cinderhill and Bulwell earlier today (Friday 7 December 2018).
They remain in police custody and searches are on-going.
The arrests follow the theft of the Portland Tiara – regarded as a national treasure – and a diamond brooch from The Portland Collection Gallery on The Welbeck Estate in Worksop between 9.45pm and 10pm on Tuesday 20 November 2018.
The brooch taken from the Portland Collection
Detective Inspector Gayle Hart said: “This case has involved multiple lines of enquiry and we’re continuing to work hard on the case to secure justice for the victims.
“The stolen property hasn’t been recovered and we still want to hear from anyone who knows where the items might be. We also want to hear from anyone who has any information about a silver Audi RS5 Quattro, registration number KY61 USJ, which we believe was involved in the burglary.
“It was stolen from the Phoenix Park Park and Ride tram stop, Millennium Way East, Cinderhill, Nottingham, on Friday 2 November 2018. It was found abandoned and burnt out in Cross Lane, Blidworth, about half-an-hour after the burglary on Tuesday 20 November 2018.
“Did you see this car in the area around the time of the burglary or have dash-cam footage of it? Did you see anyone in the car?
“We’re keen to trace this vehicle’s movements before the burglary so encourage anyone who saw it or who has any information to get in touch with us as soon as possible.”
If you have any information please call us on 101, quoting incident number 856 of 20 November 2018, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
