Category: Lowdham

Summer sports gets go-ahead

GEDLING BOROUGH Council has confirmed that its summer sports scheme for children in Lambley and Woodborough will go ahead again this year. The future of these free activities had been in doubt due to the budget cuts that are affecting…

Rimington raises the roof

FORMER MI5 boss turned novellist Stella Rimington spoke about her books, her former career as a spymaster, and her local connections to a packed house at the Lowdham Book Festival this week. The sell-out crowd at Caythorpe Cricket Club on…

Rimington steps in for Simpson

ONE OF the headline makers of the 2011 Lowdham Book Festival, BBC world affairs editor John Simpson, has been called away to report from overseas and has had to pull out from the event on Tuesday 21 June. In his…

Lambs loose in Lowdham

MOTORISTS travelling in to Lowdham on Lambley Road got a surprise this morning when confonted by three stray lambs. The beasts were eventually rounded-up by local residents, but not before evading capture for several minutes and causing a minor traffic…

Book festival tickets update

LOWDHAM BOOK Festival reports strong ticket sales for 2011, two weeks after opening its box office and a week before the programme starts. In an update posted on its Facebook group page, co-organiser Ross Bradshaw reports that some events are…

Book festival draws big names

THE 12th LOWDHAM Book Festival has an extended programme, just announced, which brings a wide range of authors and performers to our area. Held over a month, from 14 June to 14 July 2011, most events are clustered in the…

Garden opera returns to Lowdham

THE GARDENS of The Old Hall, Lowdham, will ring to the sounds of opera again in July with the return of the Garden Opera Company. In a departure from convention, the company will perform first Mozart’s little-performed one-act comedy Impresario,…

Panto presents a perfect crime

LOWDHAM PANTO is bringing a special production to the village in early June, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the village hall. Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime promises to be a light-hearted take on the crime detective genre, and might…

Cowboy Baby debuts at Lowdham Book Festival

AMONG THE delights in store for 2011’s Lowdham Book Festival is the inaugural production from Catfoot Theatre, a stage adaptation of Sue Heap’s classic children’s book Cowboy Baby. Winning gold in the 1998 Smarties Children’s Book Awards, Cowboy Baby is both an…

Labour takes Gedling, Tories lose Newark (updated)

THE FULL RESULTS of Thursday’s local elections are now in, with implications for the two borough councils in our area. Gedling Borough announced its results on Friday, but it took Newark and Sherwood until today (Sunday 8 May 2011) to…