The full Tour of Britain route through Nottinghamshire, as well as the sprint and King of the Mountains climb locations have been revealed.

The fourth stage of the tour will start from Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre on Wednesday 6 September and will pass through major towns including Worksop, Retford and Southwell before the sprint for the finish line takes place in Newark 170 kilometres later.

It will also pass through several towns and villages, including Carburton, Harworth, Sturton le Steeple, Boughton, Bilsthorpe, Caunton, Egmanton, Tuxford, Girton and Collingham.

This year, Nottinghamshire Day will be celebrated as part of the annual Robin Hood Festival at Sherwood Forest on Saturday 26 August.

Following the official marking of Nottinghamshire Day itself on Friday 25 August, communities are invited to come and celebrate at the Robin Hood Festival on Saturday 26 August from 10am until 4pm.

With celebrations now in their third year, Nottinghamshire Day is an opportunity for the county to come together and recognise all the things that make Notts great; our history, heritage, identity, culture, and local traditions.

Nottinghamshire County Council could move its civic and democratic base to a new building near Hucknall to bring long-term savings for the taxpayer and environment.

The proposal comes off the back of a review which has found that it is no longer practical to keep the building, which opened in 1946, as the Council’s main base in the long-term, as it will be too expensive to maintain and improve to meet the Council’s environmental ambitions.  With the rise of home working, the building also is now too large for the Council’s needs. 

It’s National Breastfeeding Celebration Week in the UK (Sunday 25 June to Thursday 29 June) and Nottinghamshire County Council has even more reason to celebrate following good news from the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF.

The Council’s Children’s Centre Service has received the acclaimed UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Award for the third year running, as part of UNICEF’S Baby Friendly Initiative.

The scheme ensures public services give new families the best possible support, including with infant feeding and developing nurturing relationships.

More than 2,600 residents with disabilities and long-term health problems across Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Derby are to receive employment support.

A partnership between Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham City Council and Derby City Council, has led a successful bid for £5.3m of Government funding to help people who are either out of work or find it hard to retain a job due to disability or physical and mental health issues.  

This new Department for Work & Pensions-funded Individual Placement Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) scheme, named Working Well – East Midlands, will be for people already known to health services and will work closely with existing providers.

A new trial scheme has launched in Newark and Sherwood to give small traders a new disposal option for their waste.

The scheme has been developed by Veolia in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council and Newark and Sherwood District Council to provide small traders with a cost-effective way to dispose of their waste and increase the number of available outlets for this type of waste in the area.

The pilot will run until March 2024 at Veolia’s Waste Transfer Station on Brunel Drive in Newark, and small tr aders will be able to dispose of their non-recyclable waste for a competitive fee with no minimum load charge - something which is currently viewed as one of the main barriers to traders responsibly disposing of their waste. Small traders will also be able to dispose of separately collected cardboard free of charge.