Graham Wright

Goal Net Removed Following New Residents’ Complaints

5th July 20237th July 2023 Graham Wright

Campaigners who fought to save a Ruddington playing field for future generations are dumbfounded by a decision to remove the netting from one of the goalposts to discourage people from using it. It’s after some new ‘Fairham Green’ residents, who’ve recently moved into the new houses just behind Sellors’ Recreation Ground, allegedly complained to Ruddington Parish Council (RPC) that young people playing football there (as they have been for around eighty years) is a nuisance. Villager Rebecca Collison, who campaigned successfully as part of Ruddington Community Association (RCA) not to include the…

It’s ‘Diamond Day’ for Ruddington Library

3rd July 20236th July 2023 Graham Wright

Staff at our village library are inviting residents and other users to mark a special milestone with them this week – the 60th anniversary of its opening. Although never the prettiest building in Ruddington’s ‘Conservation Area’, the Church Street lending library has been serving bookworms and the wider community here since July 1963 – and most of us have become oblivious to its uninspired and dated appearance by now. It’s ironic, perhaps, that it’s ‘Inspire‘ which runs our library these days, on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council! In fairness, Ruddington Library…

‘Have Your Say’ on New Infrastructure and Council Services

1st July 20236th July 2023 Graham Wright

Are you happy with the way all the approved new housing is being delivered here in Ruddington in terms of the required infrastructure needed to support it? And are Council services keeping up? Rushcliffe Borough Council (RBC) is inviting residents from our village and beyond to share their views on its forthcoming ‘Corporate Strategy’, which sets out its plans for the next four years on the delivery of the services for which it is responsible. This consultation is open now, and runs until Monday July 17th 2023. The authority assures us it’s…

Rock Revived in Ruddington!

29th June 202329th June 2023 Graham Wright

Almost three and a half years’ ago we reported how Christian worshippers in our village would soon have another option – when Edwalton based ‘The Rock Church’ announced it would be holding monthly services in Ruddington. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ in March 2020 dictated that its first service in St Peter’s Rooms (pictured top) would also be its last … until now, that is. The local Pentecostal church, founded in 2010 and pioneered by husband and wife team pastors Alistair and Kate Kent, has announced the return of its “authentic, vibrant, charismatic church” to Ruddington with…

Rebecca’s Swim in Memory of Dad

27th June 202327th June 2023 Graham Wright

A Ruddington resident who did her first fundraising challenge last summer to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK is encouraging other villagers to do likewise this year. Rebecca Thompson (pictured top with her dad) wanted to take part in ‘Swim15’ because bowel cancer runs in her family. Sadly her father, Tim, died of the disease aged just 60 in January 2021. “My dad had a cancerous polyp removed in 2017″ recalls Rebecca. “On follow up CT scans he was told that the cancer had spread, which meant it was inoperable.…

Fundraiser Launched Following Fatal Dog Attack

25th June 202325th June 2023 Graham Wright

Big-hearted Ruddington residents on the Pasture Lane estate are raising funds to pay the veterinary fees for a neighbour whose dog was viciously attacked there on Friday night, and subsequently died. Eyewitnesses say Hugo the terrier (pictured above with his owner Debs Hayball) was brutally savaged by a much larger dog (of bulldog appearance) outside her home – with Debs also getting bitten on her left hand as she tried to protect her pet. The attacking dog – which reportedly had no lead or collar – was subsequently seized by…

Start Date for Major Junction Work Revealed

22nd June 202327th June 2023 Graham Wright

Long-awaited highway improvements to alleviate the daily traffic queues at an increasingly busy Ruddington crossroads are scheduled to begin next month. As previously reported, local frustrations have been mounting about peak-time tailbacks at the Kirk Lane/Loughborough Road/Flawforth Lane traffic lights. It’s as hundreds of families continue to move into Ruddington’s four major new housing developments (approved over three years’ ago as part of the Rushcliffe Borough Council (RBC) ‘Local Plan Part Two’) before the mandated improvement works to add extra turning lanes at this critical junction have been carried out. RUDDINGTON.info…

‘Fun Fest’ Raises Thousands for Ruddington Kids

20th June 202322nd June 2023 Graham Wright

Organisers of the summer fundraiser at Ruddington’s Infant & Nursery School are celebrating its success after more than doubling last year’s total; making it their most successful event to date. Helped by some glorious weather, Friends of James Peacock School reveal they made just over £3,400 during their ‘Summer Fun Fest’ – which was held in the school field at Manor Park last Friday (16th June 2023). The Friends raise money for the school to assist in making it a memorable and positive experience for all of its children. A team of…

Ruddington Reflects on City Centre Attacks

16th June 202316th June 2023 Graham Wright

Today police announced they have charged Valdo Calocane, a 31-year-old man of no fixed address, with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder following the early morning attacks in Nottingham city centre on Tuesday (13th June 2023). 19-year-old University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were fatally stabbed in Ilkeston Road just after 4am and, later, 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates was found fatally stabbed in Magdala Road. The further three charges of attempted murder relate to three members of the public struck by a van…

Housebuilder’s Boost for Birdlife?

14th June 202314th June 2023 Graham Wright

Ever since the the Rushcliffe Local Plan Part 2 was approved – giving developers the green light to build hundreds of new houses on large areas of Ruddington’s Green Belt – villagers have been complaining about the destruction of natural habitats and the loss of green space. Whilst undoubtedly this is true – and those four large new estates have consumed precious areas of agricultural land we’ll never get back – Gordon Dyne of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust (NWT) has learned about one positive outcome… As part of the planning application…