Keep Our NHS Public Campaigners held a stall in Beeston on Saturday 25th of February. 

On Thursday 23rd February, Nottinghamshire County Council met to debate and vote on its budget for 2012-13. Following from previous years, this will see millions slashed from the budget and further job cuts.

The council meeting began at 10am, while the protest kicked-off at 12.30pm.

McDonalds have put in a planning application to open a branch at Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NA. They tried last year but were refused (see http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Plans-pub-rejected/story-13164950-detail/story.html).

This time they've come back all guns blazing, and teamed up with KFC. Great.

14 news items from test tube burgers & GM wheat to latest report on Food and the Climate ...

Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre

Sneinton Boulevard

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Campaigners' plea to council over Nottingham's YMCA centre

CAMPAIGNERS are urging Nottingham City Council to rethink its decision to stop funding a community centre.

The International Community Centre in Mansfield Road has been run by the YMCA since 1998.

For the last three years, the centre, which costs £195,000 a year, has been supported through an annual £54,450 grant from the city counci…

Beeston Square - by the 'stage' area in the square (nr ARGOS)

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Campaign launched against International Community Centre cuts

Nottinghamshire Save Our Services (Notts SOS) is calling on user groups at the International Community Centre (ICC) on Mansfield Road to rally round against proposed funding cuts.

A NOTTS school has rejected the chance to switch to academy status.

Governors at Kimberley School turned down the controversial proposal at a meeting after months of consultation.

But the school has refused to rule out such a move in the future.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) had threatened strike action could result if the move went ahead.

And a protest group was set up to campaign agai…

Unpaid wages? Denied deposit? Unsafe workplace? Refused repairs?

Don’t let bosses and landlords use and abuse you!

We are a network of working people and tenants who work to defend ourselves through direct action and mutual support. Nottingham Solidarity Network will help you get back stolen wages and deposits, get repairs made, and stop evictions.

Nottinghamshire Save Our Services (Notts SOS) have written a letter to user groups about the proposed cut in the City Council’s grant from £54,000 to nil for the International Community Centre on Mansfield Road, where we hold our fortnightly meetings.

There are 114 user groups at the ICC and at the last Notts SOS meeting we agreed to do our best to contact them about what is intended and s…

Last night a small group of people successfully managed to hang a net between some trees and drop a couple of banners in solidarity with Shell to Sea and Rossport Solidarity Camp.  We plan to be here all day (Friday 27th) and possibly into the evening.

The Sumac Centre,

Gladstone Street

Nottingham

Press release regarding the 'Atos Two' case being "discontinued":

Now more than ever!

We are glad to announce that the case against the ‘Atos Two' is being ‘discontinued', i.e. dropped.

However, it is now more than ever necessary to continue the protests against Atos, to defy any attempts of police repression and to stand with those whose actions are being criminalised.

Saturday 7 January 2012

Nottingham Keep Our NHS Public held a stall in the Market Square and attracted quite a lot of interest from passers-by.

Market Square, Nottingham

Adjacent to the Left Lion

Well, we finally have the Audit Committee meeting agenda up on the Council's website and they are indeed discussing the Annual Audit Letter which gives brief details of the crooked goings on behind the Future Jobs Fund and which I wrote about before when they mistakenly added it to their website a bit early.



They are also discussing the full report on the matter by the District Auditor but what's …

245 Sumac Centre, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

CPS publishes report tomorrow into claims prosecutors withheld undercover police officers' surveillance tapes from defence lawyers.

A key report into the Mark Kennedy controversy is due to be published tomorrow morning. Back in the summer, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, set up a judge-led inquiry into claims that prosecutors suppressed secret surveillance tapes record…

Meet at the junction of Carlton Street and Heathcote Street, Hockley (outside Ice Nine).

A bunch of people concerned at the possible criminalisation of squatting, are looking into how we can open more 'community spaces'.  Meeting in Nottingham, we have a mind to keep a list of suitable empty properties that need to be put to better use, than being empty!

Recently BBC Radio4 produced a program called:  "From Frestonia to Belgravia, The History of Squatting"

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Following the 30th November public sector strike, a Leicestershire coordination meeting attended by rank and file workers, union members, unemployed workers, students and participants in Occupy Leicester took place on Thursday 1st December 2011.



The initial aim of the meeting was to find ways to:

• widen the current public sector dispute into a general dispute over the repeated attacks on the …

Lincoln's First Anarchist Newsletter Issue# 001 (we think)

Despite being evicted from the Old Tory Club, we're going to carry on with some of our workshop plans.  Here's the revised timetable

This is a statement by those who opened up the Nottingham Freespace at the old Tory party social club in Lenton this week. We opened up the space in order to provide a radical social centre in Lenton that could connect to and support the strike on November 30th. We entered the building last Tuesday night and have spent the last 6 days cleaning, clearing and making a what was an unusable building r…

NCC LOLs' Andy looks into the Nottingham Labour Party's "ConDem" 'astroturfing' campaign. Continuing the party's dabblings with the wrong side of the law (see also: postal ballots, council housing etc.) "this isn't only dishonest and underhand it also breaches election law."

The Notts Free Space is now open to the public. We are occupying the former Conservative Social Club on Church Street in Lenton. Please come and support us tonight and tomorrow whilst we get off the ground. A programme of events will be taking place throughout the week.

A group have occupied the empty Conservative Club on Church Street in Lenton. The Bigger Society Social Club will feature workshops, discussions and film showings in support of movements for radical social change. In particular, the participants are focussing on supporting the public sector strike on 30th November as well as the wider anti-cuts movement.