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