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 [...]
YOUNG PEOPLE KEEPING FIT IN RUSHCLIFFE
Five young people have graduated from Rushcliffe’s TRY-iT conversion for life fitness programme, which incorporates MEND (Mind Exercise Nutrition Do it). This 10-week course is run with Nottingham Rugby Club and gets overweight youngsters more active and eating more healthily. Twice a week children aged seven to 13 attend sessions to improve their diet and [...]
HOST A ROYAL PARTY
Nottinghamshire residents have until Thursday 31st March to register with the County Council the street parties they plan to hold to celebrate the royal wedding. The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will take place on Friday 29th April at Westminster Abbey. Nottinghamshire County Councillor, Richard Jackson, told The Local News: “The Council fully [...]
DETAILS PUBLISHED FOR FIRST STREET LIGHTING PROJECT
Nottinghamshire County Council has published the first detailed proposals for its street lighting project to save over £1m a year and cut carbon emissions and light pollution. Proposals for each light in East Markham, Hoveringham, Scarrington, Hockerton and Flintham are being sent to the relevant parish and district councils and the emergency services for their [...]
TON UP FOR MACMILLAN SUPPORT
Did you know Macmillan Cancer Support is 100 this year? The local Rushcliffe Fundraising Committee would be delighted to hear from anyone who might be interested in joining this friendly informal group. They never put pressure on anyone but are very grateful for any help given. To find out more contact Graham Wallis on 0115 [...]
RUSHCLIFFE BOROUGH COUNCIL BANS PUBLIC QUESTIONS AT COUNCIL MEETINGS
At its meeting on Thursday 16th December 2010, the Conservative-controlled Rushcliffe Borough Council voted to reject a proposal that members of the public could put questions to councillors at meetings of the full council. The proposal was to run a special trial that would last 12 months. This decision was despite a recommendation from a [...]