“A passion project born out of lockdown and now I'm in business with my 80-year-old Granny Rae!”Anna Rose Heaton from Ruddington and her Granny Rae from Willoughby-on-the-Wolds have teamed up during lockdown to launch a special independent pre-loved and upcycled Bridal-wear … [Read more...]
Ruddington attracts shoppers from across the east Midlands
The popular village of Ruddington is enjoying something of a retail revival, despite the pandemic. Several new shops have opened on the High Street, including butchers Elms Farm and creative gifts company Debbie Bryan.‘Shop Local’ is a growing trend driven by people rediscovering the independent … [Read more...]
New safety measures to be introduced in Radcliffe on Trent and Ruddington
Nottinghamshire County Council has approved plans to implement temporary measures to help two Nottinghamshire villages with Covid safeguarding.Earlier this year temporary measures to promote and assist with social distancing, encouraging walking and cycling and aiding economic recovery were … [Read more...]
A new skatepark at Rushcliffe Country Park to be designed with local young people, meeting the needs of future Olympic skateboarders and BMXers
Rushcliffe Borough Council have advertised the contract to replace the wooden skatepark at Rushcliffe Country Park, Ruddington, with a bespoke concrete facility to be designed in close collaboration with local young people. The skatepark will be completed in April 2021 and will join other new … [Read more...]
A new chapter opens for the Framework Knitters’ Museum
The Framework Knitters, Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham is celebrating having been awarded £234,500 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and £82,952 from FCC Communities Foundation for an exciting new project called, ‘A Right Good Yarn’. As the museum approaches its 50th anniversary, this … [Read more...]
Ruddington marketing business takes coaching online to raise charity cash
A Ruddington digital marketing expert has raised money for a charity in crisis after moving her training sessions online. Shamshad Walker, who runs her own business in West Bridgford, started collecting cash for Headway Nottingham after hearing the charity was struggling. She moved … [Read more...]
Portraits of Ruddington lives in lockdown
Peter McConnochie, also known as photographer UrbanScot, has been capturing portraits in his new project Portraits Of This Time: Faces of Lockdown.Tell me about yourselfI am Peter McConnochie and I live in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. I also go by the name UrbanScot for many of my … [Read more...]
Beauty out of ugliness – museum’s knitted Covid-19 set to ‘go viral’
Helen Brownett, Textile Artist & Technical Demonstrator at the Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham, has designed her own version of a Covid-19 virus – and knitted it in 3D on one of the museum’s antique circular knitting machines. Helen put the finishing touches to the blue … [Read more...]
Fundraising begins for next phase for Great Central Railway
Fundraising begins for the next section of the ambitious ‘Reunification’ project for the Great Central Railway. Two stages of the scheme to create an eighteen-mile heritage line is now complete and one hundred thousand pounds has already been committed for phase three.Plans to reconnect the two … [Read more...]
Young campaigners plant 270 trees to combat climate change
Young environmental activists from St Peter’s Junior School, Ruddington, have been planting 270 trees in the school’s grounds to help improve the environment and combat climate change.The school, in Ashworth Avenue, Ruddington, was supplied with the trees by the Woodland Trust, as part of an … [Read more...]