tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85266788824372608572024-03-21T19:59:35.015-07:00Nottingham - News, Photo'sConsisting of photographs taken on my walks, and news with a differencetgc-gerry.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04385880265265671845noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526678882437260857.post-50387095538479455832012-07-07T18:33:00.000-07:002012-10-02T22:39:42.793-07:00Nottingham News (October 2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.5px;">A man newly released from prison killed his flatmate in an alcohol-fuelled knife attack. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Gary Cooper stabbed Mark Calpin, a friend of 20 years, five times during an argument.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nottingham Crown Court heard that Cooper shouted "I hope you die" as Mr Calpin was stretchered out of his flat in Ashwell Gardens, Hyson Green, on November 5 last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cooper, 45, pleaded guilty to murder at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Graham Reeds QC, prosecuting, said Cooper had returned to Mr Calpin's flat on November 4 last year after a court hearing for another offence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pair drank together with friends but Cooper lost his temper and attacked a man with a screwdriver, cutting his face around the right eye and his upper body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cooper then injured two women with the screwdriver at another house in Ashwell Gardens, before trying to return to Mr Calpin's home where he was refused entry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Reeds said: "He went around to the kitchen window, managed to open it from the outside, and broke into the flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"He picked up a knife off the work surface and another knife off the draining board and went into the living room to confront Mark Calpin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Mark Calpin stood up. The defendant threatened him and told him to sit down, which he did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"While he was sitting the defendant stabbed him in the side. It was described by a witness as a stabbing involving frantic movements."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The court heard three of the five wounds, which were all caused by a six-inch knife, were to Mr Calpin's liver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 999 call was made at 1.45am and Mr Calpin, 44, was pronounced dead at the Queen's Medical Centre at 3.30am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The court heard Cooper had begun living with Mr Calpin after being released from prison in July, 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Reeds said: "On release from that sentence he had nowhere to go. Mark Calpin took him in, in late October or early November (2011)."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sarah Porter, in mitigation for Cooper, said: "He has had months to go over the events of that evening time and time again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Mr Cooper is at a loss to understand how the events escalated to such an extent, with such tragic consequences, amongst what was essentially a group of close friends."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miss Porter added: "He's unable to recall the precise details of what happened when he went back into that flat. He finds it very difficult to accept what inevitably must have been what he did that evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"He cannot believe he would have stabbed a friend in that way."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Judge Michael Stokes QC sentenced Cooper to life imprisonment and said he must serve at least 23 years before being eligible for parole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Judge Stokes said: "This is as clear a case of murder as one could possibly imagine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Mark Calpin's family and friends have had to wait to hear you acknowledge your responsibility for what you did."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cooper also pleaded guilty to three charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to the man and two women at an earlier hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was sentenced to 18 months for each charge, to run concurrently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A plea of not guilty to a charge of robbery in relation to the attack on Mr Calpin was also accepted by the court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 15-year old boy has appeared at court, charged with the rape and sexual assault of a pensioner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The teenager is alleged to have attacked the 65-year-old on land near Vale Road, in Mansfield Woodhouse, at about 8.30am on Saturday August 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The man and the teenager are not believed to be known to each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The teenager, who police say is from Notts, appeared at Mansfield Magistrates' Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was remanded into custody and will next appear at Nottingham Crown Court on October 16.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2003 PC Walker was dragged to his death by a stolen taxi driven by David Parfitt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Parfitt, 35, from Nottingham, was jailed for 13 years for manslaughter but was released in March this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At Leicester Crown Court he was jailed for two and a half years after being convicted of causing actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His trial in August heard he had met his girlfriend online but attacked her just weeks into the relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite it being against the terms of his release, Parfitt had been drinking and punched and headbutted her during an argument at her home in Lincoln.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dick Holmes from Lincolnshire Police said Parfitt had a "Jekyll and Hyde" character when taking alcohol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drury Hill, was the quaintest street in England, but protesters failed in their bid to stop it being demolished to make way for the entrance to the new Broad Marsh Shopping Centre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Leading from Low-pavement to Sussex-street, was called Vault-lane because of the fame of the huge rock cellars underneath the house at its juncture with Low-pavement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Later, it was called Parkyn-lane, probably after some member of the Parkyn family of Bunny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It got its present name about 1620, and it has nothing whatever to do with Drury Lane in London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">About that time one of the leading figures in Nottingham was a certain Alderman Drury, a wealthy cordwainer (a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather). He occupied Vault Hall, the house just mentioned, and from him the street derives its modern name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is a very old thoroughfare. Originally, Nottingham stood round about St. Mary’s Church. There was no Arkwright-street, and the only access to the town was along the track of what is now London-road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The traffic had to get up the precipice as best it could, first by Malin-hill and Long Stairs and then by Hollow Stone. The town grew, and it was found easier to bring the traffic along Narrow-marsh and up the much less severe gradient of Drury Hill, and this line consequently became the chief business thoroughfare of the town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Seventeenth Century when wheeled traffic began to come into general use and to replace horseborne traffic, it was found that this ancient roadway was too narrow to deal with the cumbrous vehicles of the times, and so Hollow Stone was taken seriously in hand, its gradient eased, and it was turned into a principal entrance to the town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drury Hill, with its narrowness and congestion, and its curious haphazard buildings, gives us some idea of the appearance of Tudor Nottingham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Opposite Bridlesmith Gate is one of the entrances to a construction of the 1960s and 70s - the Broadmarsh Centre. During the construction of this shopping mall many old buildings were demolished and the old mediaeval thoroughfare of Drury Hill was also lost, although the name plate for the street can still be seen just right of centre in this image. Drury Hill was a steep and narrow descent that I remember walking down to the old bus station when I worked in the city in the mid 1960s</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Built just prior to the English Civil War</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Note lack of Big Issue sellers, muggers, yobs and traffic? - Heaven!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">As you enter today, what was the entrance to Drury Hill, you see closed down and boarded up retail untis on both sides of you, and all the way down into the centre itself. Sad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">As I was leaving the Broad Marsh Centre, where once stood several retail stalls in the walkway, now abandoned, I found Dave doing his bit for the Forces - dropped some cash in his bucket, and thanked him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Seven additional powers for the officers were approved at a meeting of the county's police authority.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">*Issue fixed-penalty notices in respect of offences under dog control orders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">The review of PCSO powers was commissioned by Assistant Chief Constable Paul Scarrott and carried out in consultation with neighbourhood sergeants and inspectors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Mr Scarrott's report said: "These additional powers give the PCSOs more tools to solve problems for the community."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Former police authority chairman John Clarke said the additional powers raised questions about the future of the force.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The 'Cut Crime and keep you safe', may have to take a back-seat for a while, during the Olympics when 280 officers will be taken away from Nottingham to police the London Olympics - just in time for the annual Nottingham summer youth riots too!</span></span></div>
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Details of when and where people can see the Queen during her visit to Nottingham on Wednesday have been revealed.</div>
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The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will start at Nottingham train station before going to the Council House and Vernon Park, in Basford.</div>
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The Queen pictured in Leicester at the start of jubilee tour in March.</div>
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It is hoped that hundreds of people will line the route to greet the royal party as they travel through the city.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>This could happen, as Wednesday's in Nottingham sees many hundreds of people signing on at the benefit and Jobcentre plus offices.</i></span></div>
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There will be a number of road closures and travel restrictions.</div>
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The Queen and Prince Philip are due to arrive at the station at 10.05am. They will be met by Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton and will all travel by car to the Council House.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Oh I am glad for them.</i></span></div>
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People are encouraged to line the streets to get a glimpse of the royal convoy as it travels along Middle Pavement, Albert Street and Wheeler Gate and into the Old Market Square, near the fountains.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Should be a bit of interest to the Big Issue sellers!</span></i></div>
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The royals are expected to arrive in the square at 10.10am and will spend time meeting the crowds, before going into the Council House to meet the Lord Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and guests.</div>
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A spokesman for the Lord Lieutenant of Notts, Sir Andrew Buchanan, said: "The Lord Lieutenant is delighted and is very much looking forward to greeting the royal party.</div>
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"He is hoping that the people of Nottingham will give them a really wonderful welcome. It is a fantastic opportunity because the Queen hasn't been here since the Golden Jubilee, so we are hoping that everybody is going to come out in force."</div>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Out in force? Muggers, beggars, rioters, unemployed, drug gangs, and shoplifters might attend I suppose!</span></i></div>
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The royals will appear on the Council House balcony and the National Anthem will be played. The royal party will leave by car at about 10.55am. Spectators can see them on Queen Street and Upper Parliament Street, before they travel to Vernon Park, in Basford, along Vernon Avenue.</div>
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The park has been granted Queen Elizabeth II Field Status, which preserves parks as recreational spaces.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Well that's good news for the unemployed, redundant, crime victims, sick on the NHS waiting list, immigrants, muggers, and gun-crime criminals of Nottingham I'm sure!</i></span></div>
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The royal party is expected to arrive at Vernon Park at around 11am and the Queen will unveil a plaque to mark the park's new status. They will enjoy sporting and musical performances by children from schools and groups from Notts and Derbyshire.</div>
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Members of the public will be able to arrive at the park from 8.30am and enjoy the activities from 10am to 2pm.</div>
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The Duke of Edinburgh is recovering from a bladder infection in London, and a spokesman for Buckingham Palace told the Post yesterday that there was no update on his condition.</div>
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But it is hoped that he will be able to accompany the Queen on Wednesday for her two-day visit to Nottingham and then Corby as part of her tour of the UK.</div>
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The spokesman for Sir Andrew added: "We hope that he will be well enough to come but his health is paramount. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be with Her Majesty, which is very exciting."</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Yes poor chap, I'd go myself, but it's my INR Warfarin blood tests appointment.</i></span></div>
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Nottingham City Council leader Councillor Jon Collins said: "As the capital of the East Midlands, it's great Nottingham's playing host to this royal visit.</div>
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"I'm sure that people will give the royal party a warm welcome and will be excited about getting the chance to also see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations."</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>They say it costs over £500 to serve HRM with each breakfast she has served to her - five times what get a week in pension - so please do not feel bad about my lack of interest?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>‘Despicable’ robbers who pinned an elderly woman to the ground in her own home and stole her necklace are being hunted by police.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The two men, both white, pushed their way into the 80-year-old woman’s bungalow in Bestwood Road, Hucknall, at around 10.30pm on Monday (11 June).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They told her to turn her taps on, but she refused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She was forced to the floor while one of the offenders searched her bedroom. A necklace she was wearing at the time was snatched from her neck and they fled through the back door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Both robbers are thought to be in their early 20s. One was just over 5ft tall while the other was taller and wore a hooded top with a scarf around his face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The victim was not injured during the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was made up of two gold chains linked together and had a gold oval pendant attached, which has a swirl pattern on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Detective Inspector Hayley Williams, from Sutton CID, said: “This was a callous and despicable attack on an elderly woman in her own home.<br />“She must have been terrified at the sight of two complete strangers barging their way into her home - a place that should be a safe sanctuary for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“They snatched the necklace she was wearing from around her neck. This is of significant sentimental value to her and the pendant contains photographs of her husband and son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“We are determined to find the heartless offenders who did this and I urge anyone who has information to come forward to help us hold them to account for what they did.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyone with information should contact Hucknall CID at 101 extension 804 4733 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I might well have been able to get some better shots (photographs) of Her Majesty's flotilla up Mansfield Road this morning, but one of the kind motorbike-policeman-officer-gentlemen who preceded the Royals, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">kindly</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">suggested I kept both feet on the pavement outside the closed down and torched in Nottingham's riots of last year shop that I was stood near - to avoid his having to arrest me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His wearing of an</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> SA80, a British family of 5.56mm small arms, a selective fire, gas-operated assault rifle, decided me to keep both of my feet as recommended on the pavement - notice all the others took the advice to heart as well!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The CPO, wearing a new hat, and the git in blue who got in the way of my shots seemed to enjoy the fleeting moment anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">automobiles used I noted were built by Indian, German, and Japanese owned companies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I moved on into the city centre, there was plenty of Union flag bunting, but none I noticed at the Age-Concern, NHS Drop-in Centre, Benefits, or Job-Centre-Plus offices?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I moved on to fetch some hearing aid batteries, get my bus pass mended, and call at the Pound shop to get some seed for the pigeons - delights I bet Her Majesty doesn't have the pleasure of!</span></div>tgc-gerry.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04385880265265671845noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.43597335.574749 -43.8656605 75.181353 36.9937145tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526678882437260857.post-6346338249470245822012-06-05T23:00:00.001-07:002013-12-03T09:25:47.279-08:00Nottingham - Photo Gallery One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Busy day fer me today. Launderette, then QMC fer me INR blood tests, then to Bulwell (on the bus) to get some cheapo-short-dated nosh in - and that is when I passed the fire below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Facing towards the City Centre, this clever photo has a 1912 shot superimposed in the exact relative position, over a 1980 photo, I hope to try an take one from the same position late to show you three 'ages' of Nottingham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The busy building with the Nottingham folk on the left - is... was, the public toilets, it's now a fast-food retail outlet! <i>Eurgh!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Just out of shot far left, was the entrance to the British Rail Goods Yard, where my father used to work long ago. Although nothing like yesteryear, the concrete post Dad had his delivery dray horse break his leg on, is still there!</span></div>
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HRMs Visit to Nottingham -Wednesday 13th June 2012</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Old Market Square - June 2012</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The row of closed down shops - another sad indication for Nottingham!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Clumber Street - with its closed down shops, Money Lenders, Cash for Gold, Big Issue Sellers, Pound Shop <i>(Doing well!)</i> and a shop selling kiddies shoes on offer at £49.99!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The Crossing where I saw a girl knocked over in March, a Cyclist in April went under a lorry, and in June, another woman hit by a bus. And still the pedestrians go against the lights, and cross anywhere!</span></div>
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<br />tgc-gerry.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04385880265265671845noreply@blogger.com0Nottingham, UK52.95477 -1.15808652.878242 -1.3160144999999999 53.031298000000007 -1.0001575