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Shouting Out
Issue 5.
Nottingham Burning call out London
Road Fire service.
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Inspire News Group newspaper
shouting out hot off the printing press , created & edited & produced
by Joyful Joyce, Magnificent Michelle, Marvellous Mr Matthew, the
Amazing Mr Vanish also known as Kevin, not forgetting the very best
till last Chief Folly & crazy artwork designer Jeremy the Jolly Joker.
The News Group members have been grinding the teeth off the
winding cogs, They have been writing & producing a variety of
different inspirational, invigorating, imaginative and interesting news
articles, from the newly built Central Fire Station on London Road
where they grilled the Chief Fire Officer with lots of million dollar
questions, all about how the Fire crews operate & manage the Fire
Station & how they cope in real situations of fire like the Great Blazing
Fire at Nottingham Train Station.
No poles to slide down for the News Group Fire Fighters, but they
enjoyed squirting the fire stations hoses trying on helmets listening out
for the fire alarms, & learning all about car jacks & splitters with teeth
which the fire crew have to use in road traffic accidents. Members of
the News Group publishers have also been digging deep down at the
Nottingham Castle Caves, unfortunately no buried hidden treasure or
crown jewels were discovered at the Castle. Intrepid News Group
explorers grilled Castle Manager Faye Sadler & Development Assistant
Jade, to find out all the nitty gritty about the redevelopment plans for
the Ye Olde Castle commencing in Summer 2018.
The News Group have also grilled the Highest Sherriff of the land David
Sneath who has a very important official role, then flying high with the
Nottingham & Lincolnshire Air Ambulance to find out about the work
of the Paramedics. Landing safely back on dry land, the News Group
are working hard to complete this bright colourful Summery
Newspaper, so Richard can release them out on bail for an exciting fun
Summer Activity Programme.
Editorial By Jeremy
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A very warm welcome to Kim our new Shop Manager and her
volunteers, who has done an excellent job decluttering our
shop transforming it from a little shop of horrors to a
wonderful shop of summer delights. Hip hip hooray if your
happy & you know it clap your hands, our new monthly discos
are taking off like thunderstorms in china teacups, down at our
new venue the Royal Children at Castle Gate where DJ Marie &
DJ Matthew Curwood set up the disco all by themselves with a
little support & guidance from DJ Jamie. Playing a variety of
songs from the 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s & 00’s, from Elvis the King to
the legendary Michael
Jackson. The only songs DJ Marie & DJ Curwood won’t play is
Christmas songs, not in June.
While listening to a variety of crazy cheeky soothing relaxing
happy songs, you can also chill out chat to friends enjoy a soft
drink eat a chip cob cheaper than Mr Chips & beat your friends
at a game of pool.
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sheriff of Nottinghamshire is Here
The High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire is a person named
David Sneath, the role is called the Office of the High Sheriff
and is appointed by the Queen. For 1000 years the High
Sheriff ruled the County, collecting taxes and sitting
judgement on criminal cases & passing sentences. About 803
years ago it all changed due to the Magna Carta, King John
was losing battles that the tax money was paying for and so
there was civil unrest with the Barons and King John. And so
a new treaty was formed resulting in many of the High
Sheriffs being removed from office. This could be link to the
Legend of Robin Hood & the Sheriff of Nottingham as we
know it today.
As the Sheriff lost his powers as a judge the powers went to
the proper judges as we know today. In the 16 th century the
Queen started the County lieutenant. And now we have a
Lord Lieutenant who is Queens representative in the
county and holds office until 75 years of age, the high sheriff
holds office for one year and the reason for holding one year
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is there is no public money and the High
sheriff pays for any entertaining he does
out of his own pocket.
In old days the High Sheriff looked after
judge’s safety and wellbeing. Looked
after county jail and any ward of court
for execution the High Sheriff had to
attend but could send his undersheriff,
which they often did. The role the High
Sheriff today is still to look after the
judges and also to further the relationship with the police
prisons; David has been to visit four prisons and to work
alongside charities
The High Sheriff is appointed by the Privy Council who looks
after the high sheriffs. He is Appointed but not elected.
They are asked 3 years in advance if they would like to do the
job. If the incoming High Sheriff is unable to take over for
whatever reason than the current High Sheriff stays in post,
on the 8 th of April 2018 David steps down and Nick Ebbs
takes over, Sir John Piece is current lord lieutenant, which he
will be in until he is 75.
David has said he has not met the Queen but 15 years ago in
2002 he met Princess Anne at a function at Windsor castle,
he did not have the opportunity to meet the Queen who was
at the function. David did get to meet the Duke of
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Edenborough Prince Philipp. He has also met Prince Charles
& Princess Anne on several occasions. David was a
lieutenant colonel in the Worcester & Sherwood Forest. In
2007 the Worcester & Sherwood Forest Regiments ceased to
exist in 2007 they then reformed as the Mercian Regiment.
David’s background is in law as an employment Judge 1983
part time and in 1992full time. David as part of his role is to
work with charities to raise monies, charities he has worked
with are Frame work, Midland legal society, big sleep out for
Nott’s county football and cycle for live. At the end of his
term David had given out some awards for those he had
thought needed some praise and we put our longest serving
volunteer Ray forward. Ray went to the council house and
received his award from the departing High Sheriff.
Picture above is of David Sneath High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Ray one of our
Volunteer who has been with us for 5 years
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Flying high with the Air Ambulance
Our Intrepid news group invited two of the Lincolnshire and
Nottinghamshire air Ambulance team to come along and to
be interviewed about the important service that they
provide.
Olly Larkin fund raising coordinator and Sue Curtis who is a
Volunteer at the service, the air ambulance is funded by
donations and by selling donated goods through their charity
shop, to which Sue volunteers at the Mapperly top branch,
Sue also helps with Fundraising, Olly sometimes dresses up
as Douglas the ‘Parameduck’ to also help raise funds.
Olly talked about the beginnings of the service, he said the
service was founded in 1994 (originally Lincolnshire only).
Cornwall had the first service of its kind in the UK in 1987
following a campaign after the death of a child on a beach in
the 1980s and in turn started a campaign to get more air
ambulance services in the UK. There are 22 air ambulance
services in Great Britain covering every region.
Surrounding services include Derbyshire Leicestershire and
Rutland.
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Some areas have more than one helicopter.
The Organisation has around 300 volunteers doing different
jobs, The Air ambulance or AA for short collaborates with
other AA services including fundraising projects.
On rare occasions the helicopter will operate outside the
boarder of the two counties in another region if requested.
The helicopter has a searchlight on the nose on the
helicopter; the crew carries night-sight goggles.
The flight crew is made up of two pilots (one will operate as a
navigator) and two paramedics as well as a doctor. The crew
are specifically trained to fly, and classified as HEMS
(Helicopter Emergency Medical Services)
Helicopters are very difficult to fly so this requires the Pilot to
undergo many hours of training; some Air Ambulance pilots
are ex-military.
The air ambulance is only able to land on flat or near flat solid
ground where there is no obstructions such as trees, street
lights and telegraph polls, AA have landed in fields, beeches,
motor ways and recreational playing fields, this can sometimes
mean that the patient may have to be carried via a stretcher or
transported via a road ambulance to the Air ambulance.
When the AA get to the hospital it often lands on a helipad but
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may have to land elsewhere and the patient will need to be
transported the rest via a road ambulance.
In bad weather the Air ambulance can be grounded this is for
the safety of the crew and is often for high winds main issue is
often bad visibility fog blizzard or heavy rain.
The Air Ambulance treats many types of injuries and 40% of
missions are to road traffic accidents.
Improvement in equipment has allowed air ambulance
medical crews to treat a wider range of conditions including
heart attacks and anaphylactic shocks.
They also carry blood and Defibrillators.
At the time of publishing Olly Larkin had left the air
ambulance.
The news group interviewing
Olly Larkin and Sue Curtis
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Nottingham Castle Transformation.
The drawbridge is now and truly up for the Nottingham
castle transformation project, we met with Faye Sadler the
Nottingham castle project officer who was kind enough to
meet with us and tell us about the project and what it will
mean to the city as a whole.
Faye met us at the castle gates and took us up to the castle;
we looked over the walls that surround the castle which gave
us a fabulous view of the city.
Faye shown us where the extension that will be built and will
extend the gallery.
We went in to a gallery and sat round the table we watched
a slide show of the transformation and a video, afterwards
we had the opportunity to ask questions, the redevelopment
will start early summer with archology excavations around
the castle then the building works start after that around
July, and it is expected for the works to be completed in 2020
which is 2 years of work.
The cost of the work to be done will be £30m the money will
be coming from many sources such as the heritage lottery
fund, Nottingham council and castle trust. The money will be
spent on a new Robin Hood visitors centre and restoring the
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castle, Faye said any new parts of the castle will be kept
modern as it would look out of place if it was made old.
For those visitors who have additional needs there will be
some help such as a train to transport those with mobility
issues from Brewhouse yard to the castle. It is expected the
castle will bring in about 400,000 visitors per year, this would
equate to £90m of additional visitors pend in the local
economy over the following 10 years, on top of this it is
expected 395 jobs will be sustained and 230 construction
jobs will be supported. 16,000 school children will visit each
year. The works will include the network of caves with in the
castle rock and descend through the tunnels to Brewhouse
yard, Costumed guides will bring this complex network of
caves to life telling tales from years gone by. And
improvement of the grounds for an all year round of
activities. We asked about the price of entry once work has
been completed but this is yet to be decided.
News group at the
Nottingham Castle
interviewing Fay Sadler
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urning questions for the London road fire station
We put Some Sizzling questions to the City District Manager
Andy Lindley who has been a fire fighter since 1990 and
started in Derby, he had worked in other fire stations in
Nottingham and Retford before settling at London Road fire
station. He has been at London road station since September
2016 when the new fire station had been completed.
Andy was very welcoming and shown our intrepid news
reporters around his fire station.
At the new fire station they have a call system that shows
which fire crews are needed by coloured lights on the walls
throughout the station, there are three engines two normal
and one aerial ladder platform as well as the support vehicles.
The fire station has a shift system in place there are four
Watches, red, blue, green and white doing twelve hours 7-7am
& pm doing a four day on and off. The fire crews stay awake
for the full shift.
We started off by asking Andy some questions we asked how
many fire engines would attend the National Ice Centre if
there is no event there would be two fire engines sent, if there
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was an event on they would send four fire crews. If a major
incident took place like a fire or chemical leak, London Road
Station would send five and Andy would also attend.
In addition we also asked Andy if they use special firefighting
equipment, Andy said they do and one special equipment they
use there is a piece called spreaders which will spread two
parts of a car. They also have enough power in them to lift up
the fire engine they also carry the Jaws of Life, which can cut a
roof or a door off a car.
Jeremy asked Andy what is the biggest cause of fires? Andy
said the biggest causes of fire are electrical, and children
playing with matches.
Matthew asked, how much it cost to run the fire service? Andy
said it costs 38 million a year.
Joyce asked how you coped when the train station caught fire.
Andy replied that he was the incident command officer for
that incident, He was at home when the call came through at
6:25am by the time he got to the train station the fire crews
was there.
Michelle asked, how many firefighters do you have at the
station? Andy replied there are 48 persons 12 per shift.
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We asked, do you have a ceremonial uniform? Andy showed
us his Uniform which had his medals on and he only wears the
uniform at ceremonial parades and functions.
We asked, why did you relocate from Shakespeare Street to
London Road? Shakespeare Street Central Fire Station would
cost more in repairs then building a new station at London
Road, the budget for the build was £5.5 million but the cost
came under budget at £4.7 million.
Andy took us out to the back of the fire station where he
showed us the aerial ladder platform, & talked about how it
was used. We then talked about how they used it in a fire or a
rescue.
We were given a demonstration on the fire hose where we
had a go at using the fire hose.
At the fire station there is a plaque which is dedicated to the
station for attending the fire at Nottingham train station.
At the end of the interview we thanked Andy and his team for
their warm Welcome and time and we give them our best
wishes and to keep them selves-safe and the community they
serve.
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Pictures of the news group
At London Road fire station
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Final Thought
Our News group have met many wonderful people along the way
making this news magazine, we have had our chief editor Andy
leave us for pastures new to follow his heart. He has come back to see
use This Month of June to see how we are all getting on, and so we
dedicate this Magazine To Andy Coverdale for his past hard work
and his interest in the progress and wellbeing of this magazine and
our Charity.
We would like to Thank all that have allowed us to interview them
David Sneath, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
Sue Curtis Air Ambulance
Olly Larkin Air Ambulance
Faye Sadler Nottingham Castle
Andy Lindley Nottingham Fire and Rescue
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