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11:00am Fri Feb 19, 2010
Many people took part in a pancake flipping contest in Newark Market Place on Saturday to raise money for Beaumond House Community Hospice.
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11:53am Sat Mar 13, 2010
More than £100,000 has been given to Newark and Sherwood District Council to help protect homes in Girton from flooding.
10:13am Sat Mar 13, 2010
The winner of this year's Young Musician of the Year organised by Newark and Southwell Rotary Clubs in association with Newark's Ransome Band is Katie Liwoskho,11, who is a pupil at Coddington Primary School.
7:31am Sat Mar 13, 2010
There are plans to provide 15 more bedrooms at a Newark care home, modernise existing facilities and build tea rooms.
7:30am Sat Mar 13, 2010
A Winkburn farm that supplies wheat for Hovis will open to the public a week on Sunday in the first of a series of national initiatives by the famous brand.
8:02am Fri Mar 12, 2010
A giant Easter egg is being raffled to raise money for Help For Heroes.
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7:31am Fri Mar 12, 2010
More than 1,250 schoolchildren will be among those lining the streets when Nottinghamshire soldiers exercise their Freedom of Newark on Tuesday.
 
7:30am Fri Mar 12, 2010
The north block of Newark College is to be converted into a new centre, Newark Sixth, offering A-levels to post-16 students.
7:30am Fri Mar 12, 2010
A national trial of a scheme warning vulnerable people that bogus callers are operating in the area starts in Newark today.
7:30am Fri Mar 12, 2010
A job centre has been identified as one of the main priorities for Southwell for the next five years.
7:30am Fri Mar 12, 2010
Among more than 1,250 schoolchildren lining the streets when Nottinghamshire soldiers exercise their freedom of Newark will be 29 from an Ollerton school with very special reasons for being there.
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7:30am Fri Mar 12, 2010
Supermarket giant Tesco will submit its planning application to build a store in Bingham within two weeks.
7:29am Fri Mar 12, 2010
Outline plans for a replacement Grove School, Balderton, were approved by Nottinghamshire County Council on Tuesday.
 
 
Selfish parking leaves parents in lurch
I wonder if anyone else has noticed the apparent spread of an affliction to some drivers in our town — that of ‘Invisible Baby Syndrome.’

This condition makes the sufferers imagine they have a baby or child in their car and so are entitled to park in the baby and child spaces, kindly provided by a number of shops in Newark, when in fact they do not have.

On my last three visits to Morrisons I have observed poor sufferers of this condition taking up spaces they should not be using and causing those with genuine need to have to park elsewhere.

On all three occasions I watched the drivers get out of/return to their cars with no evidence of a child in sight.
— RUTH RABON, Harewood Avenue, Newark.
 
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These unscrupulous crooks use all sorts of methods to gain entry to victims’ homes and think nothing of taking whatever they can find.

They make various claims to gain their victims’ trust, often saying they are from utilities companies but have, in some cases, even said they are long-lost relatives.

The police say these criminals are often highly mobile and can strike from one end of the county to the other within the hour.

But what if carers or relatives of elderly residents knew they were active?
 
 

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