Dreamon

It's sad to see the City council's cuts will affect, amongst other things, the libraries leaving only three open.

I'm inclined to think the Council's bankruptcy is down to plain old-fashioned incompetence rather than a conspiracy.

What abbreviations do people use for Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council? I have to to rename documents on my computer from each of these councils and need to use something short but easy to recognise. I want the text to refer to "Nottingham" or "Nottinghamshire" in order to make them distinct from other councils. So "city council" and "county council" is not specific enough. Using NottmCC and NottsCC seems too easy to mix up. The best I have come up with is NCityC and NCoC. Any better suggestions?

I notice the the BBC Sounds app on my Andorid phone now abbreviates Radio Nottingham as Notts in the circle icon. I am half-sure the BBC Sounds app used to abbreviate it as Nottm, which is what I would use. Other local stations are abbreviated as towns not counties.

That's just what I was looking for. Thank you.

Does anyone know of a user-friendly document showing mugshots of the City councillors, and perhaps also showing a map of their wards? The info is on the City Council web site but not in a handy reference document. As you can see in this link below, lots of clicks are needed. List of Nottm City councillors

I haven't been followed Nottm City council's affairs but the news this week of its bankruptcy made me sit up and pay attention. Your old post from 3 years ago seems rather prescient. Are there any threads discussing the current situation? My own searches for "bankruptcy" found nothing.

Other councils manage with no greater skills without going bankrupt. What's so bad about Nottingham council?

Has anyone noticed a problem with DAB radio reception of Radio Nottingham? Curently (Saturday, 11th Nov 2023) I get almost no signal at all. I'm not sure if I normally get my signal from the Mapperley or from the Kimberley transmitter but it must be one of those two. Does anyone else experience this?

Frankly I don't wish to be sickened with the details but, on the other hand, I am concerned that there should be some degree of local awareness to prevent such things happening again under our noses. I rarely if ever hear of local perpetrators being identified. There must have been many of them but they appear to have gone to ground and will never have to account for their behaviours. Yet they are most likely still around.

That sort of organisation and communication between perpetrators is shocking. Why don't we in Nottingham hear more about these allegations and findings in the local media? The local news outlets say little and the general awareness of what's happened seems remarkably low. There is more about Nottingham's past history of child abuse in the national news than local. I ask because I live not far from the old "Beechwood Community Home" on Woodborough Road and was shocked to hear about what had gone on there for years (admittedly many years ago) without us locals realising. However, as

Is there a separate thread which discusses the Nottingham parts of the report last year by Prof Alexis Jay for her Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Inquiry_into_Child_Sexual_Abuse https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/inquiry/final-report.html

Ping about Heather Ackford. She was a childhood crush of mine! What happened to her? Where did she go after Becket?

At this stage the police statement about Valdo Calocane pains a picture of a model immigrant who is hard-working and studious with no criminal record. He seems to have sadly developed a serious mental disorder. Whatever psychosis struck him that fateful day, it doesn't really explain why a "disturbed but decent" person went out that evening equipped with a large knife; nor why he attempted to burgle a house. Perhaps further police statements will reconcile these different aspects.

Thanks for taking the trouble to provide that background info. Am much obliged. (I'm not sure I fully agree with your characterisation of the public figures you name but that's another discussion!)

It's easier now they have opened up a "major incident" phone line and I did so, but it's far too late. I also raised a concern today that I was thwarted by the web forms used on the police site from doing so a week ago.

The NHS mental health trust, Nottinghamshire Healthcare, has a patchy reputation but it is generally good in the areas relevant to this attacker. See the CQC inspection report: https://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RHA It makes me wonder if the attacker was already on Notts Healthcare's books and, if so, how he slipped through their support net. Anyone who came close to the attacker (as I did last week) could tell he was mentally disturbed and also potentially dangerous, so I imagine the mental health trust would also have known of this. For my part, I attempted to report him to the po

If the attacker does not have a criminal record then it is by luck alone. For example, the news yesterday showed a video of him halfway through a bedroom window trying to break into a house on Mapperley Road. In the normal course of events this would be prosecuted as a crime and he would get a criminal record, assuming no special leniency is shown by a court for his African origin.

How can this not be linked to migration? If this African migrant had not been permitted to stay in the UK then this would not have occurred. Almost all unprovoked senseless knife attacks on the public in the UK are by non-white perpetrators - be they paranoid-schizophrenic blacks (such as Zephaniah McLeod in Birmingham) or religious fanatics. All the signs are this gentleman is an immigrant paranoid-schizophrenic religious convert.

That was a neighbour dispute that escalated to an outrageous and dangerous level. On the other hand, the killing of two students and a caretaker is a random act of violence on the public. Furthermore, this murderer was living in the UK only because he had been granted residency, which is now clearly an official mistake.

Wouldn't that rant be better posted to Twitter or some political forum?

How sad that this African immigrant who has been given a safe and secure home in Nottingham, should go and end the lives of three perfectly innocent people. Was he known to mental health services because he seems deeply troubled?

I haven't been into Nottingham centre for years but this week I visited there and saw the ghastly Winter Wonderland. The construction work is impressive enough, especially the ice rink, but it lost all sense of a lovely open space which the Market Square is justifiably famous for. Surely the Square doesn't need to be chock-full of buildings and structures? There must be another place for all this stuff, if it's necessary at all. I've missed any debate which must surely have occurred in previous years, about this loss of primary amenity space. Presumably the city co

Just wondering ... whatever happened to Heather Ackford, one of the biology teachers at Becket? I can't find any reference to her in Google.

I'm the OP. Thanks to all for your info!