KEYWORTH QUIZ
Make a note in your 2012 diary for 7.30pm on Monday 30th January. This is when the annual Keyworth Quiz gets underway. The local Parish Council sponsors the Keyworth Quiz, which has become a village institution and has been held each year since 1976. The quiz is held in the Village Hall on Monday evenings [...]
FORMER KEYWORTH MAN PUBLISHES NOVEL
Former Keyworth resident, Peter Hough, has recently published his latest book – a supernatural thriller called ‘Stench of Evil’ on Amazon as a Kindle ebook and a quality paperback. Peter was born in Arnold, then moved to Keyworth, before his family moved up to the north-west. Peter said: “Stench of Evil is not so much [...]
SOUTH WOLDS RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN IN NEED
Students and staff at South Wolds Community School have raised a fantastic £1,275 for Children in Need. The money was raised by having a fancy dress day with the main theme being spots. Pupils held a competition for the best-dressed tutor group and held a cake stall. Staff and sixth form students donned various guises. [...]
CHARITY FASHION EVENING IN KEYWORTH
In partnership with Obsessions of Main Street in Keyworth, the Rotary Club of West Bridgford organised a very successful fashion show at Keyworth Village Hall. It raised over £1,200 for the DARE programme and other charities supported by Rotary. Thanking the audience of 180 people for attending the first Rotary Fashion Show, president Geoff Chivers [...]
NO DECISION YET FOR TESCO KEYWORTH PLAN
The future of the Selby Lane site in Keyworth is still undecided following Tesco’s appeal against the refusal of planning permission to build a supermarket on the former Wright’s Garage plot (pictured below). Local councillor, Sam Boote, said on his website: “I’ve been speaking to the planning inspectorate (PI) and to the planners in RBC [...]
STARS OF THE FUTURE IN KEYWORTH
A famous face visited Willow Brook Primary School to help choose the winner of its prestigious X-Factor competition. Andrew Monk, the Nottingham-based Simon Cowell look-a-like and a former semi-finalist on Britain’s Got Talent, came to the Keyworth school in the guise of the world famous talent show judge. Andrew cast his eye over the finalists, [...]
TOP MARKS FOR KEYWORTH PRE-SCHOOL
Willow Brook Pre-School in Keyworth has been judged as ‘Outstanding’ by school regulators Ofsted. An unannounced visit last month noted that the school provided an “excellent level of care”. The inspection reports also notes the “exceptional partnership with parents” and the “high standards embedded across all areas of practice.” The pre-school is unique in Keyworth [...]
KEYWORTH CHARITY FUN RUN
Crossdale Primary School in Keyworth has been staging the Crossdale 10k trail race and the 2k charity fun run since 1999. Rebecca Villard told The Local News: “This very enjoyable community event continues to go from strength to strength. The 10k race is organised to a professional level and we have a fully-accredited UK athletics [...]
KEYWORTH’S LOIS RECEIVES HER WISH
Four-year-old Lois Ladkin-Brown from Keyworth has just received her special wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.Lois, who attends Keyworth Primary and Junior School, suffers from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and her wish was to be made into a princess for the day as she loves Disney Princesses – her favourite being Sleeping Beauty. She has a Disney [...]
KEYWORTH STUDENT IS FASHIONABLY EARLY
With the student loan application process for 2011/12 underway, one Keyworth student is already taking the advice to help her with her future. Keyworth fashionista Evie Hainsworth, whose blog called Fashionstrand (fashionstrand.blogspot.com) already has hundreds of followers, is worried about the costs of train travel from Nottingham to London and the fact she’ll have Oxford [...]