Locals are urged to join world market
By Nottingham Post | Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 07:30
ORGANISERS of the World Village Market, part of the Matlock Summer Festival, are appealing for local businesses to showcase their wares.
The festival will take place at Hall Leys Park, Matlock, from Friday, July 20 to Sunday, July 22.
The market will feature exotic foods, drink, crafts, clothing, jewellery, home furnishings and accessories from all over the world but organiser The Market Square Group is keen to ensure local firms are also represented.
Jayne Russell, from the Market Square Group, said: "We strongly feel that a local element adds to the attraction of the event."
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It makes my blood boil when comments other than the one in hand are posted here. Is it NP's inadequacy or readers with no sense of occasion?
By rastalove at 20:48 on 13/06/12
ReportWhy on earth are there comments about the police on an article about markets?
By janine2011 at 07:58 on 13/06/12
ReportSome FACTS:
Nottinghamshire is 2160km2 & has a population of 780,000
Derbyshire is 2625km2 & has a population of 764,000
Leicestershire is 2538km 2 & has a population of 649,000
Notts Police get £80m per year (+ a recent 4% rise from Council Tax)
Derbys Police get £65m per year
Leices Police get £67m per year
Notts Police have 2269 Cops + 1448 admin staff + 273 PCSOs (+ more PCSOs this year!)
Derbys Police have 2005 Cops + only 1121 admin staff + just 177 PCSOs
Leics Police have 2192 Cops + only 1044 admin staff + 232 PCSOs
Annually, Notts residents suffer 4601 house burglaries (Derbys = 3359; Leics = 4135) + 4247 drugs offences (Derbys = 2700; Leics = 2697) + 8203 vehicle crimes (Derbys = 5680; Leics = 6467) + 1308 robberies (Derbys = 658; Leics = 871) + 7797 assaults (Derbys = 7066; Leics = 8941)
These figures are from recent H.O. documents ~ I am sure statos & politicians will 'spin' these numbers, but I think the facts speak for themselves.
In Derbyshire & Leicestershire money seems to be spent more wisely on warranted Officers resulting in crime being lower. There may be other issues about overall management and the manner in which crimes are recorded, but if we listen to the rhetoric that crime is falling rapidly and we've never had it so good, then why are Nottinghamshire's neighbours in such a better place???
(Sorry to post this material on two different articles, but maybe the press coverage just goes to show how determined the politicians are to destroy a fine institution ~ the British Police Service)
By SaxonVoice at 13:07 on 23/04/12
ReportIf you wish that level of service then you will need to pay for it. There is no money.. it is cheaper to train and employ a PCSO in the short term than it is to train a Pc and pay them in the long term.
By DJjazzy at 09:59 on 23/04/12
ReportYet another move away from traditional tried and methods of policing which have made the British policing model the envy of the world. Britain is the only major nation not to routinely arm it's frontline Officers - not even with Taser. Yet frontline staff are culled at an ever increasing rate leaving the very, very thin blue line extremely vulnerable. Replacing properly trained and rewarded Officers with pseudo-Cops is cheap and dangerous. The hard working, law abiding public will be the ones who suffer. Would Volkswagen replace highly trained technicians with keen but half trained apprentices - I doubt it! Reduce puppet Cops (like CPOs & PCSOs) and instead give Tax Payers what they really want and desparately need... the good old fashioned Bobby on the street.
By SaxonVoice at 10:13 on 21/04/12
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