After our long campaign, at long last we now have another PCSO based at Southwell Police Station. Keith Crowhurst has transferred from Ollerton Police Station and comes with over 3 years experience as a PCSO. He will take over all the villages from Richard Dunn from Monday 11th February. This means for the first time in nearly […]

BT say that they are ‘lots of exchanges being upgraded’ for optical fibre cables for fast broadband every week as [they] work towards having superfast fibre broadband available to two-thirds of the UK by end Spring 2014.’ However as you can see from the map below, Southwell Exchange is not part of the plans yet! […]

Wouldn’t it be better to get Southwell people planning what we want for Southwell – rather than what other people from elsewhere think we want – see this video?

The campaign to keep 2 hour free parking in Southwell has gained momentum. There is a new online petition to sign here. Already many local residents have signed. A number of years ago, the Conservative District Council tried to introduce car park charges. The Town Council then agreed to pay a sum now over £7,000 […]

My concern about the response time of the Ambulance Service, along with many other residents’ worries are supposed to have been addressed by the EMAS. The Ambulance Trust want to create a few Ambulance hubs and a number of points where ambulances would wait. The Newark Ambulance Station was to close. A new proposal for […]

The District Council has shown its support for Newark Hospital. This follows the debate on an Adjournment Debate held earlier this month at Parliament. In the debate Dr Dan Poulter the Health Minister said that he hoped that Sherwood Forest Hospital Trust could improve the Minor Injuries Unit at Newark to take Category 2 incidents. […]

The Government has allocated over £34m next year to Nottinghamshire to look after Public Health. Previously Public Health was run by the Primary Care Trust. This is a 4.4% increase of money. The County Council is supposed to ‘put people’s health and wellbeing at the heart of everything [they] do – from adult social care […]

As in Southwell Town Council there are fewer meetings of the District Council in December, and the new cycle of meetings has only recently restarted. One of the key decisions was taken at the Planning Committee. In January the Committee decided to reject the plans for the two turbines on the south side of Brackenhurst […]

I have been sent the Police and Crime Commissioner’s proposed five-year Police and Crime Plan for Nottinghamshire The Plan, and the resources required to deliver it, is closely linked to the budget for 2013-14 and the amount of council tax paid towards policing by local people. Proposals for the precept and budget will be approved […]

The news that the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) have delayed their decision on the future of Ambulance Stations across the East Midlands has been welcomed. EMAS had intended to make the decision on their proposals to close 66 Ambulance Stations across the East Midlands, including the one in Newark, at a board meeting on […]