The ‘Ride to Save Lives’ annual 62mile biking event, will take place on 3rd September and will be raising much needed funds for the Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance (LNAA), Lincolnshire Emergency Blood Bikes Service (LEBBS) and Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes (NBB).
This beautiful and interesting walk is still one of my all-time favourites. Beginning in the heart of Southwell; a small market town in Nottinghamshire, it is easily accessed via the A1, rivalling many, with its idyllic setting and its historical past.
Jul 4, 2023
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Newark Book Festival is almost here and it’s making final preparations for a feast of fun-filled family entertainment where imaginative tales, animal friends and super stories spill out of books and across the town’s streets.
The festival runs from the Thursday 6th to the Sunday 9th of July and is action-packed with engaging author talks, writing workshops, storytelling sessions and exciting street theatre and, with the return of our fabulous literature village in the Market Place, it all makes for a fun-filled extra-long weekend that all the family will enjoy.
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The Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society and Ashfield District Council have been working together for some time on the highly publicised and much anticipated plans for the new Planetarium and Visitor Centre. The exciting new facility will be based at the existing Sherwood Observatory and its adjacent disused underground Victorian Reservoir. The Planetarium is tipped to be an unrivalled science, technology, engineering and maths educational centre and much welcomed visitor attraction.
Jul 2, 2023
Idle Valley Nature Reserve - Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
2023 sees Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust mark our 60th Anniversary, and over the past six decades we have built up a unique suite of nature reserves covering the length and breadth of the county. Whilst much of our early focus was on saving the habitat that was to become the much-loved Attenborough Nature Reserve near Beeston, south of Nottingham, we also have a long history of activity in North Notts and much of our effort over the past decade has been invested in the Idle Valley Nature Reserve, our largest site, near Retford.
Over the past century, the perception and role of nature reser...
Robin Hood is set to storm the gates of Nottingham Castle on Monday 26 June to reopen the site to the people of Nottingham and visitors from near and far.
And visitors can join his merry band to be part of the historic moment when the gates once again swing open as part of the official reopening. Visitors are welcomed and encouraged to join ahead of this with a special one-off ticket of £1, or using their ‘pay once, visit all year round’ ticket, which is valid from Monday 26 June.
Robin Hood will lead children from a local school in Nottingham through the gates shortly before 10...
The Community Festival hosted by Professor Veronica Pickering DL - who took up the office of High Sheriff earlier this year - will celebrate youth groups, the Black, Asian and minority ethnic community and conservation efforts in the city and county.
Arrangements for the 2023 Cockpit-Fest are well advanced at Newark Air Museum’s site in eastern Nottinghamshire; close to the border with Lincolnshire. The museum is a registered charity located on part of the former site of RAF Winthorpe; this year’s Cockpit-Fest is once again taking place in its traditional June time-slot; on Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th June, 2023.
