Nottinghamshire County, England News

For a third year running Broxtowe Borough Council has left out the C-word from its yuletide celebrations for fear it might offend non-Christians. Council bosses have billed the event simply as 'Beeston Lights Switch On Event'. Following protests council bosses have backed down and agreed to re-introduce the word... but only in time for next year.

Police are treating dog mess as a crime priority, by launching patrols to catch owners who let their pets foul the pavements and issuing them with 50 fines.

A WOMAN driver who caused a pensioner's death in a Doncaster road accident has prayed every day since "for God to look after her soul", a court heard.

Nigel Bacon, 50, was found dead at his remote bungalow in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, last November, after a "planned, determined and cold-blooded killing", Nottingham Crown Court was told.

A report into a train accident that killed a Nottinghamshire woman and her grandson has found the rail crossing posed a risk to pedestrians.

Aldermanic president Lewis Reed, Anna May and Francis R. Slay and St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay pose by the new entrance of the Francis R. Slay Park, which was re-christening, Saturday, October 23.

Rocker DARREN HAYMAN is recovering at home after his skull was fractured in a vicious attack following a gig on Friday .

A police officer from Loughborough has had his off-duty community work recognised with an award.

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DONCASTER Racecourse chiefs have been fined A 25,000 for failing to prevent an accident which blinded a pensioner when her car was impaled by a loose barrier.

THE victim of a head-butt by a Hucknall man was "extremely self-conscious" about a permanent scar on his forehead which the blow caused, Nottingham Crown Court has heard.

Detectives are appealing for information after two men were attacked in the street.

Police have urged two women who may have vital information about a sexual assault in Mansfield Woodhouse to come forward.

William Bates was arrested in 2007 after police matched DNA taken from him six years earlier.

CHILDREN at a Hucknall primary school are learning about the misery that illegal drugs can create a ' from a former drug-squad detective.

One of the oldest homes in Gedling is set for a new lease of life thanks to the area's youngest landlord.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a taxi-driver was robbed in Stapleford on Tuesday.

By Alex Vessey A TAXI driver's showbiz dreams are in tatters after he was jailed for attacking a man who died weeks later.

TIME pub worker has been locked up after a customer was beaten unconscious and left with a footprint on his face.

Eighteen-year-old Rifleman Craig Wood, from Doncaster, United Kingdom, watches a paper poppy fall during a remembrance ceremony Wednesday under the Menin Gate in Ieper, Belgium.