Year: 2024

We’re Still on Social Media…

RUDDINGTON.info

As of 1st August 2024  – after just over eight years providing a daily updated news and events service for our amazing village – this website ceased operating as a business and is no longer publishing any further unique content. However, for now, RUDDINGTON.info is continuing as a free-to-use community service to share Ruddington related news and event content from other reliable sources as a ‘curated’ feed.  This is by using our dedicated social media channels, which have remained active. Therefore please do keep on keeping us posted/tagged in via our Facebook,…

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RUDDINGTON.info Charity Champions

Graham Wright

The AdBoxes which remain on this website are in return for an agreed monthly donation to a village-based charity of the advertiser’s choice. From now on, because RUDDINGTON.info is a ‘scaled-back’ service operating purely as a non-profitmaking community resource rather than as a business, we wanted to give something back to our amazing village community. Thanks to the following village based traders for taking up our offer and their generosity to their chosen Ruddington charity:- Benwell Daykin Estate Agents … is supporting James Peacock Educational Foundation.   National Car Finder…

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RUDDINGTON.info

Sorry. RUDDINGTON.info is now closed to new advertisers.   This website’s owner and editor has gone into semi-retirement and therefore reduced his commitments from 1st August 2024. As RUDDINGTON.info’s founder, and also its primary journalist and administrator during the eight years since the website’s launch in September 2016, Graham Wright says he will miss tailor-making campaigns for local advertisers – as well as researching and writing about all things Ruddington for this community website. However, going forward, RUDDINGTON.info will still be sharing Ruddington village news and events from other sources…

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Closed Village Pub Set to Reopen

Graham Wright

It’s been announced that a famous Ruddington public house which ceased trading during the pandemic will finally be opening again – following a significant makeover. When it relaunches, The Red Heart on Easthorpe Street will be known as ‘The Heart at Ruddington’, with more contemporary branding as shown above. Its new landlord will be Jack Robson, who’s already well known in village hospitality circles after working for, and then buying out, McArtney’s Catering from sisters Rosie and Nancy McArtney back in October 2015. This business was located behind ‘Bar Six’ on Dutton’s…

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Football Club’s Community Heart Tests

Graham Wright

Organisers of a heart screening event in Ruddington at the weekend say they were delighted by the turnout. Hosted by Ruddington Village Football Club in the ‘Jubilee Clubhouse’ at Elms Park, a hundred young people aged from 14 to 35 went along to be tested by a specialist team from the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). They completed a medical history questionnaire and echocardiograms (ECGs) were carried out. CRY’s community visit on Saturday (27th July) was made possible by recent club fundraisers, with both players and local people benefitting from…

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Ruddington – Proud to Support the Sunflower

Barbara Breakwell

Have you spotted sunflowers and splashes of yellow appearing in our village? We all want to live well but, if you have certain health conditions or illnesses, this might be a struggle, particularly if it’s a hidden disability. There are over 900 hidden disabilities, and these include: dementia, autism, visual or hearing impairment, anxiety disorders, asthma, ADHD, diabetes, fibromyalgia, migraine and MS.  You can learn more >>HERE<<. The Hidden Disabilities Sunflower lanyard or wristband is a simple way for anyone with an invisible condition to let others discreetly know that…

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Affordable Housing in Ruddington

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This week’s Benjamins Ruddington featured property is a new build family home | being sold under shared ownership | with three bedrooms | a combination boiler | newly fitted kitchen | private rear garden with lawn and patio | in a quiet cul-de-sac location | available November 2024 | with a price of £160,000 for a 50% share plus £413.89 monthly rent.   You can view this property in a new browser window >>HERE<<. Please contact Benjamins Estate Agents directly for more information, or to arrange a viewing, by ‘phoning 0115 937 1713 or emailing…

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Key Ruddington Route Closes Again

Graham Wright

Residents and businesses are being reminded that the next phase of the major highways project to reshape one of Ruddington’s busiest junctions – at the Loughborough Road/Kirk Lane/Flawforth Lane crossroads – means the closure of Flawforth Lane for yet another two months. From Monday 29th July until Friday 20th September 2024 it will again be a long way around for through-traffic, whilst the residents and businesses along Flawforth Lane, Flawforth Avenue and the new Blacksmith’s Green estate will once more be faced with a considerable detour via the A60 and A52 to access…

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Country Park Receives 18th Consecutive Green Flag Award!

Graham Wright

Rushcliffe Country Park has just received yet another Green Flag Award – its 18th one in a row. The accolade acknowledges Ruddington’s popular green space as still being one of the best parks in the country. It’s been named among 2,227 other places in the UK that have received the award for 2024/25, which sets the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the UK and around the world. Set in the countryside just south of our village, Ruddington’s country park consists of a diverse range of…

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It’s The Rudd Gnomelympics!

Graham Wright

Our nationally famous Ruddington Yarn Bombers have gone ‘international’ for their latest topical tribute – paying homage to the 2024 Summer Olympics in France! Installed right on time for today’s grand opening ceremony of The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris – providing the TV spectacle of thousands of real life Olympians sailing along the Seine (and the rest!) – the Yarn Ninjas’ latest display is to be found to the front of St Peter’s Rooms on Church Street. Katie Goy says: “Thank you to ‘Team Rudd Yarn Ninjas’…

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