Patients needing certain operations will get treatment faster thanks to a £5.6million project that will create new and improved theatres at Newark Hospital.

An extra 2,600 operations and procedures are expected to take place each year as a result of a new state-of-the-art theatre and recovery area and the development of two minor operations suites.

The Newark Elective Hub will significantly reduce waiting times, improve patient experience, as well as create new jobs for nursing and healthcare staff.

Nottinghamshire residents will be able to pay less to get around by bus between January and March thanks to the Government’s £2 bus fare cap.

From 1 Jan to 31 March, a single bus journey will cost no more than £2 on most routes across England, including in Nottinghamshire where operators will be adopting the scheme.

The fare cap is part of the Government’s Help for Households scheme aimed at tackling the cost of living across the country.

It is now more than 18 months since Nottinghamshire County Council launched a cross-party Highways Review panel to look at how we repaired and maintained our roads.

When the panel was set up in May 2021, shortly after the Local Elections, people on the doorstep were telling us loudly and clearly what they were concerned about - and highways was number one.

The panel, made up of councillors from all political parties, has examined the methods and technologies used by the County Council and Via East Midlands to maintain and repair the county’s 2,750 miles of road and the wider highways network.

Support is on its way to thousands of households with children who attend county schools and are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) to help cover the costs of food and energy bills this winter.

A one-off payment is due to be available in bank accounts or arrive as a voucher, (depending on the individual family’s preference) before Christmas. 

Nottinghamshire County Council is working with district and borough councils to help ease some of the financial worries for residents who are struggling to make ends meet, thanks to the Government’s £5.6m Household Support Fund (HSF).

Meden School, The Garibaldi School, All Saints’ Catholic Voluntary Academy in Mansfield, Chilwell School in Broxtowe and the Dukeries Academy and Holgate School in Sherwood are among the schools selected for rebuild and major upgrades as part of the Government’s ten-year School Rebuilding Programme.

The programme has invested more than £13 billion to maintain and improve schools since 2015.

The six schools were included in a list of 239 schools and sixth forms nationwide which will see transformative new school buildings over the next few years.

Nottinghamshire residents are urged to use the Recycling Checker this season and recycle right.

Nottinghamshire residents are expected to produce 30% more waste this festive season, than at any other time of the year. To help reduce the impact of this extra waste, Nottinghamshire County Council and Veolia, the county’s waste and recycling partner, are asking residents to make sure they recycle right this Christmas.

Nottinghamshire residents are being urged to download the MyNotts app and use the Recycling Checker. The Recycling Checker is simple to use; residents just need to enter their postcode into the app, along with the item that they want to recycle and it will tell them either which bin to put it in or if they need to take it to one of the 12 recycling centres across the county.

The Recycling Checker allows users to search thousands of items including seasonal products like squirty cream canisters, aluminium foil and beer cans to help them understand if they can be recycled or if they need to be disposed of in another way.