GOLF DAY TO BE HELD BY COTGRAVE SCHOOL
Cotgrave Candleby Lane School (pictured below) is holding a golf day on Wednesday 31st August at the Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club in Cotgrave (tee times starting at 10.30am). All proceeds will go to developing Cotgrave Studio, a new community facility at Cotgrave Candleby Lane School. This project is fundamental in offering more opportunities to [...]
HELP AT HAND FOR COTGRAVE ADVICE
The Cotgrave Advice Centre, based in the Methodist Church Hall, is open from 9am-12noon every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Help and assistance can be given with all types of problems facing people today. Appointments are not usually needed and all cases are treated with the utmost confidentiality. The advice centre has an enviable record of [...]
CELEBRATION FOR CHURCH FARM
Church Farm Nursing Home in Cotgrave has just won the Care Employer award at the Great British Care Home Awards national final in London. Owner, Patrick Atkinson, told The Local News: “This award belongs to every member of the Church Farm family and we are very proud of this accolade. This has not happened by [...]
COTGRAVE’S JACKIE IS SKY HIGH AFTER MOUNTAIN CLIMB
Local resident Jackie Clark has just undertaken one of the biggest climbing challenges by getting to grips with Mount Kilimanjaro. Jackie, from Cotgrave’s A&G ChemDry,has raised over £2,000 for Asthma UK in the process. She told The Local News: “The support, encouragement and practical help I received was absolutely invaluable. I just can’t thank everyone [...]
MORE BUSES FOR PREMIERE ROUTES
Local bus company Premiere have announced extra buses running on some of it’s busiest routes from 1st May. The Red1 from Bingham and Radcliffe to Nottingham will see evening buses increased to run every 30 minutes on Mondays to Saturdays. Last buses are now later at five to midnight from Friar Lane Monday to Thursday [...]
COTGRAVE’S LITTLE KITES PLAYGROUP CELEBRATES THEIR THIRD BIRTHDAY
Staff and children at Little Kites Playgroup in Cotgrave recently celebrated their third birthday with a special fun-filled party day. Playgroups supervisors, Libby and Molly, told The Local News: “The children were especially excited to be joining in the birthday celebrations. They all had a great time.” Little Kites (pictured below) opened three years ago [...]
POLICE BEAT SURGERIES IN COTGRAVE
Your next opportunity to meet with local officers from your area will be on Thursday 31st March from 2-4pm. This gives you the chance to discuss and agree priorities in Cotgrave. To contact your local officers and to find out more about how they are helping create Safety Neighbourhoods visit nottinghamshirepolice.uk, or call 0300 300 [...]
ROUND TWO IN COTGRAVE BUS WAR
Residents in Cotgrave will have even more buses to Nottingham when one of their three bus services increases in frequency at the end of February. The Midland General ‘Bargain Bus’, run by Wellglade, who also own TrentBarton, will now run every 20 minutes to Broadmarsh. The service was set up in response to Premiere’s Red2 [...]
HAYWARD HOUSE CHARITY TRIP 2011
Hayward House charity trip to Rouen in 2010 was very successful. Contributions arising from it came in even after their return and the final sum to go forward to Hayward House topped £3,700, with a particularly generous contribution by Michael Wright of Riviera Travel. Hannie Woolsey was once again able to set up the trip [...]
SERVICE STATION REVAMP
Cotgrave Service Station on Main Road, Cotgrave has begun improvements to their petrol station forecourt after 22 years since the last renovations, offering a more convenient and effective filling system to customers. The improvements will see the installation of five additional filling points making 16 in total. The pump stations will offer the choice of [...]