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.
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.
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.
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.
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?