New figures show the number of Nottingham children getting a place at their first choice of school has risen. This improvement is despite an increase in demand for places in the city.
Nottingham City Council is warning parents: take your children out of school on holiday and we will take action against you. The council can issue penalty notices of £60 per parent per child for persistent absence which if unpaid escalate.
That’s the tough message being given out as the local authority launches its latest ‘zero tolerance’ bid to drive up school attendance. This approach on absence has so far helped to improve school attendance in Nottingham.
Following preparatory works the full programme of roadworks on Crown Island started on 15th June at its junction with Middleton Boulevard, Wollaton Road and Western Boulevard.
The Crown Island works are the latest stage of the £16.2m Ring Road project to reduce congestion and delays and improve journey time reliability on this strategically important route.
A Nottingham landlord has been fined almost £9,000 for putting the lives of his tenants in danger.
Irfan Tariq, aged 43, of Ringwood Crescent, Wollaton, had placed 12 international students and two restaurant workers at a property in Carlton Road, Sneinton, but following intervention from Nottingham City Council’s safer housing team they all had to be placed in temporary accommodation.
Nottingham City Council has today formally adopted two new strategies for the city: a new Playing Pitch Strategy, and a Sports & Physical Activity Strategy. Both strategies have been developed by the Council’s Sport & Leisure service in partnership with Sport England, the National Governing Bodies of Sport and Sport Nottinghamshire, and aim to get more people more active more often.
The inaugural Aegon Open Nottingham WTA event attracted more than 10,000 people through the gates of the Nottingham Tennis Centre.
Among the crowds of tennis fans there were also nearly 2,000 youngsters from across Nottinghamshire, who hit the courts for the Highlands Springs Mini Tennis Festival.
Additionally, a ball crew made up of 50 children were at the very heart of the action along with 100 volunteers from Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and United Kingdom also volunteering their time to make the inaugural Aegon Open Nottingham a huge success.
The Big Scoop 2015, a joint campaign with Dogs Trust and Keep
Britain Tidy, launched on Monday 15 June with the aim of reminding all dog
owners how important it is to pick up after their dog.
The campaign is calling on everyone across Nottingham to become
‘Scooper Heroes’ and do the simple act of ‘bagging and binning’ their dogs’
waste in one of the thousands of multi-purpose bins across Nottingham.
