Log, October 2003

A quick summary of news, events and casework October 2003

Pension Credit starts.

Graffiti clean-up team clean-up 18 sites in Mapperley and  Sherwood wards; 13 of them, private or commercial sites.

29th

Iain Duncan-Smith loses confidence of Tory Parliamentary Party.

24th

Penarth Gardens street trees are pruned.

24th

Briefing on 387 Woodborough Road.

23rd

Tony Blair visits Greater Nottingham.

23rd

Mapperley Sports Village – can Elliott Durham’s extensive sports facilities be combined with the new sports hall scheduled to be built by September 2004, and be used to run the swimming baths in a facility geared to providing good facilities for local pupils during the day, and associated sports clubs and residents at other times?

22nd

Paula Charlemagne-Bertfield, Elliott Durham school governor, wins City Governor of the year.

21st – 22nd

Interviews to appoint the future Headteacher for Elliott Durham. Valerie Penny-Stewart, a deputy Head in a Wolverhampton school is selected.

20th

Join a test run of the new tram from the depot to Highbury Vale.

18th

Nottingham Labour Party meet to discuss the future.

17th

Labour Party dinner – Neil Kinnock speaks.

13th

Full Council …

… and we debate “Respect for Nottingham” and the Gearing Up for Change programme.

8th

Conservative Councillor for Sherwood resigns after just 5 months; Tories call a by-election for November 20th. There will be a by-election in Sherwood ward on Thursday 20th November caused by the resignation of Tory City Councillor Kate Baxter.  Sherwood ward was Conservative held until 1993 and Labour held all three seats from 1995 to 2003.  Kate Baxter was elected with a majority of just 35.

6th

Three Cities meeting.

6th

“Respect for Nottingham” launched.

5th

Cosmopolitan Debating Society. 

5th

John Heppell MP joins a Labour Party canvass of Pearmain Drive estate and The Wells Road.

4th

Tour of Pearmain Drive estate and The Wells Road.

2nd

Goose Fair dinner.