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I'm inclined to think the Council's bankruptcy is down to plain old-fashioned incompetence rather than a conspiracy.
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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?
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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.
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That's just what I was looking for. Thank you.
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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.
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On 12/7/2020 at 7:53 PM, LizzieM said:
Certainly incompetence within the Nottingham City Council Phil. Since Labour took over control of the Council 30 odd years ago there have been numerous financially disastrous decisions imposed on the City taxpayers. Without even needing to think hard I can list some of these.
1. Losing millions by investing in the failed Icelandic Bank2. Robin Hood Energy has lost the taxpayer £38 million
3. The ugly, boring, soulless Old Market Square is reported to have cost in excess of £8 million when it was constructed about 15 years (?) ago and I’ve yet to meet anyone who thinks it’s an improvement.
4. The debacle surrounding the Broad Marsh Centre, which is still being discussed as to what they intend to do with the area. The latest idea of a green space willjust be a magnet for winos and drug addicts, but hey-ho.
5. Nottingham Castle works ..... estimated at the start to be £30 million ......no doubt a lot more by the time it’s opened up again, it still looks exactly as it did before, from the outside anyway.
6. The UNUSED cycle lanes, the one running the length of Castle Boulevard takesup a third of the highway, and there’s hardly anyone using it, the cyclists would rather ride along the canal towpath, putting pedestrians at risk.
7. And just to get Catfan wound up, the tram ..... !!
The only time I’ve used the tram is to get to QMC, it’s a convenient way to travelthere and avoids searching for ages to find a parking spot, at great expense.
Lots more failures to list I’m sure but when there are 50 Labour councillors and only a couple of Conservatives they can just do as they please whilst enjoying their free tea and sandwiches.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.
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On 11/29/2023 at 6:24 PM, philmayfield said:
I was just looking at the list of city councillors and none of them has a financial background or the experience of running a business. Says it all really. A bunch of amateurs!
Other councils manage with no greater skills without going bankrupt. What's so bad about Nottingham council?
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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?
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On 10/31/2023 at 1:07 AM, Jill Sparrow said:
I worked for the Nottingham Child Protection Team for some years and was one of several people who worked on the historical abuse cases. At one point, this was such a large part of our work that it was all I did. Sickening and depressing, yes. It certainly makes you realise how fortunate you have been never to encounter such people and situations.
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.
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5 hours ago, HSR said:
The spineless, always knew more, my Aunty travelled with vulnerable children in the back of a Police Car. Always referenced certain houses, all WB.. about 1984?? There was a symbolism around the canal at this point.. small flags in trees, carvings etc.
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 I try to find out more, I discover there's not much. Maybe it's me?
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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
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Ping about Heather Ackford. She was a childhood crush of mine! What happened to her? Where did she go after Becket?
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18 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:
Valdo Calocane........it turns out he has dual Portuguese/Guinea-Bissau nationality, and grew up in Haverfordwest.
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.
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36 minutes ago, DJ360 said:
Not a rant. Simply me explaining to Beekay why I would not be taking up his suggestion re: 'News' Channels.
You are very new here, (Welcome, by the way..) and therefore probably unaware of the 'history' of 'Politics' on Nottstalgia.
For many years 'Political' discussion was just banned, although there was at one point a whole raft of seemingly 'approved' threads surrounding Brexit. I don't recall clearly what happened to those.
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!)
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26 minutes ago, letsavagoo said:
You should persevere and report this to the police.
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.
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2 hours ago, letsavagoo said:
I said that the man in custody was a west African migrant. As far as I am aware he is. I don’t know but will wager that his ‘mental health issues’ manifest themselves in violence.
I further said that whether he is a dinghy migrant or otherwise is unclear. Although I can’t see the information you appear to have seen I am prepared to accept that he is ‘otherwise’ and been here a while. So he IS a migrant then isn’t he.
I also said that letting large numbers of unchecked males in the country from war torn countries is a powder keg waiting to explode. A statement that I stand by and if it has any bearing on these terrible murders or not is immaterial although making that statement in the post as I did can be seen as an implied link to this case.
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 police but couldn't get through the Nottinghamshire Police web site categories - even after asking for help with this in another forum.
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11 hours ago, DJ360 said:
He's a migrant with settled status who has been in the UK for many years. He has no previous criminal record and a history of mental health issues.
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.
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11 hours ago, DJ360 said:
It IS political and it wasn't me who made it so. You and others have tried to link this appalling series of incidents to migration, simply because the suspect is seemingly an African.
As I've already said, I'll be posting in the Politics thread.
Read or ignore. Your choice.
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.
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23 hours ago, letsavagoo said:
It is pointless speculating the reason and motive of these brutal murders but I note that not so long ago Fatoumatta Hydara and her two daughters Fatimah Drammeh and Naeemah Drammeh were killed in an arson attack which didn’t receive a fraction of the wall to wall media attention this tragic event has gained.
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.
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11 hours ago, DJ360 said:
I have no intention of watching a 'Christian', 'conservative' American owned channel, or Talk TV, which is owned by Murdoch, frequently platforms Piers Morgan and even offered a presentership to Johnson's Top Groupie Nadine Dorries.
With all it's faults, I'll stick with the BBC, which presents News as News, not propaganda.
Wouldn't that rant be better posted to Twitter or some political forum?
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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?
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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 council feels it receives enough money for permitting such a claustrophobic monstrosity and this money outweighs the effective loss of a public market square.
I gather this horrible mess is on until the end of December. Ugh! It certainly doesn't get my vote. I believe there are similar square-filling displays throughout the year, and I hope they don't take over the open space so completely.
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Just wondering ... whatever happened to Heather Ackford, one of the biology teachers at Becket?
I can't find any reference to her in Google.
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I'm the OP. Thanks to all for your info!
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It's sad to see the City council's cuts will affect, amongst other things, the libraries leaving only three open.