This year’s Nottinghamshire Day will be celebrated with a special event as part of the annual Robin Hood Festival at Sherwood Forest.

Friday 25 August 2023 will mark the third official recognition of Nottinghamshire Day.

Nottinghamshire Day is an opportunity for the county to come together and recognise all the things that make it great - our history, heritage, identity, culture, and local traditions.

Following the official marking of Nottinghamshire Day itself on Friday 25 August, communities are invited to the free celebratory event taking place as part of Robin Hood Festival on Saturday 26 August, from 10am until 4pm.

Nottinghamshire County Council is delighted to announce that the 141 bus service will continue to serve residents in Bestwood, Hucknall, Mansfield and Ashfield.

The council began subsidising the service in September 2022 and appointed Stagecoach as the new operator after trentbarton announced they could no longer operate the service.

Since the council’s support for the service began, passenger numbers have increased.

Works are set to begin next week on a new cycle path and footpath on Derby Road in Mansfield.

Once the works are complete, cyclists and other footway users will benefit from two new one-way cycle tracks on both the north and south side of Derby Road from the A60 Nottingham Road to Cauldwell Road, passing West Nottinghamshire College.

The new tracks will connect to existing shared cycle and footpaths at each end of Derby Road and will also provide a link for residential areas to the college.

Community projects which include improvements to sporting facilities, play areas and the local visitor experience are set to share more than £233,500 worth of grants.

Twenty-eight groups and organisations are to receive capital grants via the latest round of Nottinghamshire County Council’s Local Communities Fund (LCF).

It means they will be able to use the funding to continue their tireless work improving the health and well-being of residents and helping make communities an even better place to live.

For students across Nottinghamshire, A Level results day today (Thursday 17 August), marks the culmination of years of study and Nottinghamshire County Council is congratulating students for their hard work.

Councillor Tracey Taylor, Nottinghamshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Families said, “I’d like to congratulate the A Level students across Nottinghamshire on their results. They should be immensely proud of all the years of hard work and dedication they have given to their studies.

The latest programme of school infrastructure improvements worth £9.2m has been unveiled by Nottinghamshire County Council 

The investment is part of the council’s school building improvement work for 2023/4, which will be designed and delivered by Arc Partnership, a joint venture between the council and SCAPE.

Twenty primary and infant schools will benefit from a range of improvements, dependent on the needs for each school. The works will include roof replacements, drainage improvements as well as energy-efficient lighting and boiler upgrades. 

Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council have secured £100,000 of ring-fenced funding from NHS England to buy and distribute toothbrushing packs to foodbanks and other organisations in the community, who provide support for vulnerable people and families.

Toothbrushing packs will include age-appropriate toothbrushes and toothpaste, and will be distributed across a number of organisations who participated in a similar project last year. The participating organisations help vulnerable and deprived communities who can be most at risk of experiencing poor oral health. The packs are being distributed to help enable people who are currently unable to purchase these supplies, to brush their teeth by the recommended two times a day.

Mark Rogers has been appointed as the Interim Chief Officer of the East Midlands devolution programme, as part of plans to set up a new mayoral combined authority covering Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Nottingham.

Having played a pivotal role in the formation of the West Midlands Combined Authority, Mark will take the lead in ensuring the region is well-placed to establish the East Midlands Combined County Authority, which is due to come into existence next year subject to Royal Assent for a new Act of Parliament.

A popular Nottinghamshire County Council care worker is preparing for a gruelling charity walk to raise thousands of pounds for the Alzheimer’s Society.

Paul Lindsay, who is a Community Care Officer in the Rushcliffe Living Well team, will be walking the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats route in April 2024.

He will be putting his best foot forward for the 1,200-mile trek to raise money for a charity which has supported him and his family following his dad Richard’s devastating Alzheimer’s diagnosis two years ago.