VICTORY FOR CAMPAIGN TO SAVE POLLING STATIONS
Radcliffe residents are celebrating after Rushcliffe Borough Council rejected Radcliffe Parish Council’s proposal to close three of the five polling stations in the village. Hundreds signed a petition calling for the polling stations to be saved. Dave Barton, local resident and secretary of Radcliffe Labour Party, said: “This decision vindicates our campaign to save the [...]
GREEN FLAG FOR COUNTRY PARK
Rushcliffe Country Park is officially one of the best parks in the country. Last month, it was awarded its fifth consecutive Green Flag award, a sign that the park is well-maintained and well-managed, with excellent facilities. Rushcliffe Country Park is one of a record number of parks and green spaces receiving the award this year [...]
RUSHCLIFFE RESIDENTS TO JOIN 80S POP STARS FOR FUNDRAISING TREK IN CAMBODIA
A recently married couple from Whatton in the Borough of Rushcliffe are getting ready to tackle a fundraising trek in Cambodia to raise money for children’s charity, Action Medical Research. Kate McAndrew, a local psychotherapist and her husband Gavin, an area sales manager, will join a group of adventurers that includes 1980s singers Martin Fry [...]
TRIBUTES FOR COUNCILLOR SMITH
Local councillor Wally Smith passed away in hospital on Tuesday 26th April. Wally was chairman of Radcliffe Parish Council and also served on Rushcliffe Borough Council. He was chairman of its development control committee. An article on the Radcliffe Parish Council website said: “Wally had been a parish councillor since 1976. He had two spells [...]
WHEEL HELP FOR WORK TRAVEL
Thanks to new funding, rural residents of Rushcliffe struggling with transport to work and training, could now receive assistance in the form of a moped on loan, public transport tickets or even a bicycle. Wheels to Work (W2W) Nottinghamshire has been operating since 2002, helping mainly young people who are finding it a struggle to [...]
ALL NEW CONTACT CENTRE FOR RUSHCLIFFE
Rushcliffe Borough Council has united forces with the police and the result is the Rushcliffe Community Contact Centre, which opened its doors for business last month. The Council’s customer services centre at the Civic Centre closed on Friday 1 April. The new centre is on the corner of Rectory Road and Bridgford Road, home of [...]
RUSHCLIFFE LEISURE CENTRES: 2011 THE YEAR OF DECISION?
By Ian Machan Many will remember that at the time of the last borough election in 2007, the fate of our leisure centres was a live topic. The council panel now tells us that they will make a decision on the Rushcliffe Borough Councils’ leisure strategy this summer, just after the elections. The member panel [...]
NEW DINING ROOM AT RUSHCLIFFE SCHOOL
Rushcliffe School’s new dining room was officially opened by Nottingham Forest’s Guy Moussi and the Mayor of Rushcliffe, Councillor Mrs Marie Males, last month. Rushcliffe School is a nationally top performing 11-18 specialist science and training school. The new dining hall, which was designed with pupil input, has a capacity to seat almost 200 pupils [...]
CELEBRATION FOR ADVICE NETWORK
Rushcliffe Advice Network (RAN) is celebrating after a donation of over £484,000 in Lottery good cause funding. This is for a new project to help with the increased demand for advice services in rural areas as a result of the economic downturn. In July 2009, three Rushcliffe volunteer-led advice agencies were experiencing increased demands in [...]
UPDATE FROM THE RUSHCLIFFE 50+ FORUM
By Alan Wain The last open forum of 2010 was the Christmas Festival held in St Luke’s Church Hall in West Bridgford. It was the fourth open forum of the year with ‘Thought for Food’ as its theme. The first talk of the afternoon was on food safety and was delivered by Adam Smith (Environmental [...]