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Joe Locker

United Kingdom

Local Democracy Reporter at Nottingham Post

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  • 1 week ago | nottstv.com | Joe Locker

    News, Politics By Joe Locker • May 29, 2025 Share this By Joe Locker, Local Democracy Reporter Castle Cavendish, which oversees a £2.8m property portfolio comprising business centres, retail units, and office space, says it has been talking with Nottingham City Council about taking on management of the Basford, Bilborough and Aspley libraries. The Labour-run council, which declared itself effectively bankrupt in November 2023, will be cutting £1.5m from its library service over two years in a...

  • 1 week ago | nottinghampost.com | Joe Locker

    Nottingham City Council could partner with an organisation like E.ON to "eliminate" most fossil fuel use and help the authority become carbon neutral by 2028. In 2019, the Labour-run authority declared a climate and ecological emergency and set a target to become the first carbon-neutral city in the UK by 2028. To become carbon neutral, the exact amount of harmful carbon dioxide (C02) released into the atmosphere must be balanced through absorption or removal.

  • 1 week ago | nottinghampost.com | Joe Locker

    Nottingham City Council’s deputy leader has promised the authority will be more transparent in the way it sets its budget every year – after admitting to “short-sighted decisions” and confusing language in the past. The Labour-led council declared itself effectively bankrupt in November 2023, after it was unable to set a balanced budget. Government commissioners were later appointed in February 2024 to oversee a critical improvement journey towards better financial sustainability.

  • 1 week ago | newarkadvertiser.co.uk | Joe Locker

    Bus services in a Nottinghamshire town need a better real-time display service so passengers aren’t left wondering when occasional services will turn up. Peter Harris, who represents Southwell on Newark and Sherwood District Council, says previous improvements to the real-time passenger information displays “aren’t sufficient”.

  • 1 week ago | bbc.com | Joe Locker

    Views sought on theatre and leisure centre projectJoe LockerLocal Democracy Reporting ServiceGedling Borough CouncilThe council has envisaged a new theatre, library and leisure centre as part of the masterplanPeople are being asked to comment on potential plans to build a new leisure centre, library and theatre in Nottinghamshire. The project, which also includes plans to enhance the public spaces around the market and high street area, commenced in 2022.

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23 May 25

Framework has opened 15 new flats for vulnerable women who have experienced homelessness to help them “rebuild their lives” after trauma. I went down today to get a look inside. They're fab. Read: https://t.co/d6Ew2oJkF3 https://t.co/jIsgLqIk8d

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22 May 25

RT @advertisergroup: “You said we haven’t got a clue – I can tell you now we have got more professionalism on this side of the chamber than…

Joe Locker
Joe Locker @JoeLocker96
22 May 25

Reform hit back at claim they ‘haven’t got a clue’ how to run Nottinghamshire County Council during first meeting in power. @Notts_TV #LDReporter Full story: https://t.co/5CTJIHoa0g https://t.co/Nvyd0d229Y