WIN FAMILY TICKETS TO SEE DISNEY ON ICE
Your Nottingham Local News has teamed up with the Trent FM Arena to offer three family tickets to see Disney on Ice. The year’s performance is a very special one with the celebration of 100 years of Disney magic. Filled with breathtaking Disney moments you’ll remember forever, this skating spectacular has a collection of 60 [...]
SOLAR RUSHCLIFFE TAKES OFF
As part of Transition West Bridgford, a group of local residents have set up the Solar Rushcliffe Initiative. In August, two senior architectural students of Nottingham University, Rain Luo and James Rixon, supervised by local resident and lecturer David Nicholson-Cole, will work on the initiative. They will start by mapping the areas of West Bridgford, [...]
BRIDGFORD DENTIST CLIMBS MONT BLANC
West Bridgford resident, Andrew Toy (52), successfully reached the 4800m summit of one of the highest mountains in the world to raise much needed awareness and funds for the UK’s leading mouth cancer charity, the Mouth Cancer Foundation.Andrew undertook the extreme challenge to climb up Mont Blanc alongside best friend, Trevor Riddiough. The pair were [...]
RUSHCLIFFE SPORTS AWARDS 2010 – THE WINNERS
Primary School Team of the year: Willow Brook Girls Football Team
The team won the Rushcliffe Championships for the first time in their history enabling them to compete at the Nottinghamshire Championships. They became county winners and represented Nottinghamshire at the Midland tournament. They unfortunately suffered their first defeat
in their Midland final.
Secondary School/College Team of the [...]
SCHOOL IS LOVING RECYCLING
Rushcliffe’s newest bin lorry has just taken to the roads and, to help push the recycling message, the vehicle feature designs from children at Rushcliffe-based Langar School. The school was asked to come up with a design for the side of the vehicle that would be colourful and bright and remind residents to recycle wherever [...]
NEWS FROM RUSHCLIFFE’S 4LIFE TRIATHLON CLUB
By Fiona Moffatt
The Dambuster is one of the highlights of the UK triathlon season. Held at Rutland Water, the Olympic distance event attracts around 1,000 entrants; the faster ones aiming to secure a coveted World Championships qualifying place.
Rushcliffe’s team of David Giles (1500m swim), Dean Hughes (25 mile bike) and Graham Moffatt (9.7k run) stormed [...]
COMMUNITY FLOCKS TO HEAR THE BAND IN THE PARK
A well-prepared crowd brought both sunshades and umbrellas to Bridgford Park in West Bridgford in order to make the most of ‘Proms in the Park’ – a free open air concert staged by Nottingham Concert Band at the invitation of Rushcliffe Borough Council. Special guests for the evening were the Radcliffe-based Bridge Singers, led by [...]
PADDLER HELEN BREAKING WORLD RECORDS
West Bridgford paddler Helen Barnes has just become a double Guinness World Record Holder, after setting the world eskimo rolling record for the fastest time to do 100 eskimo rolls without a paddle – handrolling. Helen managed 100 rolls in 3 minutes 46 seconds,
in-front of a crowd of several hundred. Twiggy and Emma from Trent [...]
EURO FUNDED PROJECT CELEBRATES A GOOD JOB FOR ANDREW
Being unemployed and caring for his wife full time, Andrew Good last worked in a supermarket ten years ago. However, with his wife Hayley, thankfully making a recovery from chronic depression, Andrew decided to turn his caring skills into a career and has now started his training as part of a full-time care assistant job [...]
LIFEBOAT CELEBRATION LUNCHEON
The RNLI North Region recently held a celebration luncheon and their 2010 presentation of awards at York Racecourse. This is an annual event where the RNLI present awards to volunteer fundraisers from across the region in recognition of their work.
This year the West Bridgford Branch was proud and honoured to have three of its members [...]