Entries from August 2009

August 27, 2009

Getting tough on Nottingham’s Griminals

Nottingham City Council has successfully fined eight people over £500 each for littering offences over the past two weeks.
All eight offenders were ordered to pay the fines after refusing to pay the initial on the spot fixed penalty notice of £75 when they were observed littering.
Kirsty Michelle Payne of 86 Arkwright Walk, The Meadows, was [...]

August 25, 2009

Funding for Broxtowe Country Park

Nottingham City Council has received £330,000 of funding for a major study looking at how to develop Broxtowe Country Park.
The East Midlands Development Agency and the Greater Nottingham Partnership have awarded the City Council funding for the study which will look at how to get the most out of the site.
The study will be in two parts with [...]

August 19, 2009

Confetti Media Group links up with Creative Business Awards

The Nottingham Creative Business Awards are proud to announce that this year’s awards will be held in association with the Confetti Media Group.
Now in its third year, the awards will celebrate the city’s creative sector enhancing Nottingham’s profile as a creative city of national and international importance. They aim to recognise and celebrate the successes [...]

August 13, 2009

£13.5 million to tackle unemployment in Nottingham

Figures released by the Government today show a 15-year high in unemployment with the number of people out of work in the UK expected to hit 2.5 million.
The situation could get even bleaker in the months ahead, when a new crop of university graduates and school leavers enters the worst jobs market for a generation.
Nottingham [...]

August 13, 2009

Business support for inner city areas

Nottingham City Council is funding a new pilot project to provide support to inner city areas to help people develop their business ideas in order to create successful small businesses.
The Enterprise Ecologies pilot project targets people from disadvantaged areas or socially excluded backgrounds who perhaps have found it more difficult or are less wiling to [...]

August 7, 2009

Smooth new surface for city road junction

Nottingham City Council will be laying a smooth new road surface at the Hucknall Road and Arnold Road junction from Sunday 16th to Friday 28th August as part of the overall improvements taking place there.
On Sunday 16th and Sunday 23rd August, Arnold Road will be closed in both directions at its junction with Hucknall Road [...]