Market Square, Nottingham

In front of the Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham

Workers at Nottinghamshire County Council are to strike on Thursday 24th February, following the announcement of a yes vote in the ballot for industrial action.

Launching a local anti-cuts campaign in Mansfield.

16th Feb, 7.30, Turher Memorial Hall, Mansfield Woodhouse.

Meeting on Monday 21st Feb at John Storer House at 7:30.



Please come along and help plan campaign actions.

5.00pm 11th February

Folks gathered outside the Council House in the Market Square in celebration of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and support of People of Egypt.

Durham County Council are due to decide on UK Coal plc's Bradley Opencast Mine Application on Tuesday 15/2/11. Read how to join those who are planning to demonstrate against DCC approving the Application.

The 2nd reading of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill takes place this Friday. This press release gives information about reasons why this is an important Bill, provides information about a new MOPG Briefing Note (B6) that explains the Bill and provides info about how to get involved

The weekend of 5th & 6th of February in Nottingham and Notts has turned out to be a hive of activity with lots of library protests and read-ins & a stall in the square to hightlight the cuts and closures to shelters, refuges and housing on the Saturday, plus another local UKUncut event at 1pm on Sunday.

Visit http://nottssos.org.uk for forthcoming events and send info about forthcoming events …

Fade Cafe, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

How, in three to five easy steps you can help to turn the issue of introducing a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Coal Sites in England  into a National Campaign and bring English law into line with policies already operating in Wales and Scotland

Nottingham Society of Artists

Friar Lane, Nottingham NG1 6DH

Hello all, and a happy new year to you.

 

I would like to take this opportunity for wasting the money that I and all the other people who live in Nottingham, have paid you in "council tax" over the past few years.

Thank you for the beach in the square, that was money well spent! It really did get people spending, which is essential in the current financial climate. For all the good it did, you may a…

County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7QP

Assemble at the Embankment war memorial at 10am for an 11am start of a march to County Hall across Trent Bridge to lobby until 1pm, on the day the full council meets to set its Council Tax budget.

St Barnabas Cathedral, McGuiness Room, Derby Rd, Nottingham, NG1 5AE.

ROOM 3

International Community Centre

61b Mansfield Road

Nottingham NG1 3FN

A by product of the work done to suggest that 553m metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere is the revelation that most of this coal lies so close to where people live. read more here.

This press release accompanies the publication of MOPG's 5th Briefing Note in support of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill and explains why those concerned about Climate Change should support the Bill.

Nottingham City Council is planning to impose sweeping changes to how their allotment tenancies are handled and, most importantly, how much people are expected to pay for allotments. Allotment owners are objecting to these changes on a number of grounds and we want to highlight some of these to others who may be thinking of objecting.

12.00pm on Saturday 15th January



Students Protest Against Scrapping Educational Maintenance Allowance EMA.



Meeting in the Market Square Nottingham at 12.00pm on Saturday 15th January, School and College Student gathered to protest at the Scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance.  "nd demo this week, last being on Tuesday 11th January.

MOPG's latest  Press Release emphasises a different aspect of the argument as to why Communities in England should benefit from a 500m Buffer Zone Law. It shows how many areas of England could be prone to opencast mining because local communities, unlike those in Scotland and Wales do not benefit from having a 500m Buffer Zone policy in operation.

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Notts SOS Combating the Cuts: Planning for Action event will take place in Nottingham as planned, on Saturday, 15th. January 2011 in the Dunkirk and Old Lenton Community Centre. 

An agenda has been put together to help structure the day which can be found by following the link above. Full venue details can also be found there.

New year, new cuts. After an unplanned two week break, Notts Cuts Watch is back with a rundown of the cuts and resistance in Nottinghamshire since Christmas. As ever this is probably an incomplete list and draws heavily on reporting in the local media.

Pay particular attention to the upcoming events, of which there are many, not the least of which is the Combating the Cuts event next Saturday.

Fade/Hard to Find Cafe, Mansfield Road, Nottingham

Nottingham City Council is holding a consultation of changes to allotment tenancies, rent levels and plot allocation. They claim that the review "aims to encourage more people to get involved with growing food in Nottingham." In fact, the changes would involve the trebling of rents for allotments in Nottingham.

NCCLOLs' take on the news that there is to be no investigation into the Nottingham City Homes house allocation scandal. Several senior figures in Nottingham City Council, including Jon Collins and Councillor Bryan Grocock were implicated in the allocation of council housing to friends and family members of Council members and managers.

A group in Leicestershire has produced evidence about the current and possible future locations for opencast coal mining.in England. In all it identifies 23 Current sites and 43 potential sites.The evidence is in the form of a two part review and it has been produced to support the arguments for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill which gets its 2nd Reading in the House of Commons on 11/2/11.

Chilwell College House Junior School, College House Junior School, Cator Lane, Chilwell, Nottingham , NG9 4BB