News in Hucknall

Hucknall Town have announced their pre-season schedule with a number of local mouth watering friendlies to prepare themselves for their league campaign.

The Yellows will play a total of five home friendlies in the month of July with each game open to fans and very reasonably priced. Adults will pay just £3 to watch the side whilst for children entry will be £1 with concessions tickets priced in between at £2.

Police are cracking down on illegal and antisocial off-road biking in Hucknall and other towns in the district of Ashfield.

The Ashfield Neighbourhood Policing team has now launched 'Operation Annachinda' which will use innovative methods to identify offenders and take enforcement action.

Hucknall will remain in the constituency of Sherwood under proposals published today by the Boundary Commission for England.

The plans are now in an eight week consultation period in which people are invited to give their views on the proposals. This feedback will be published and a secondary consultation process will begin early next year before the final report and recommendations are submitted and published in the summer of 2023.

Hucknall Town's move away from Watnall Road could happen as early as next year according to officials at the club.

The Yellows will move to a newly built ground on Aerial Way once a deal to buy the land that their current ground sits on has been completed. This is looking more likely now that supermarket chain Lidl are close to purchasing the site.

A touring dessert business will visit Hucknall for the first time tonight.

Natasha Tighe's Queen of Desserts business operates out of a mobile 23 foot bus, which is a former London Dial-a Ride bus and has been travelling around Ashfield selling sweet treats for the last four weeks.

Hucknall Leisure Centre's refreshed front of house area has been officially opened by local ward councillors.

Councillors John Wilmott, Dave Shaw and Lee Waters joined the leisure centre's General Manager Deanna Housley and Contract Manager Lorenzo Clark to cut the ribbon at Hucknall.

A Hucknall based clothing business are relaunching this weekend.

LN Style, run by friends Laura Foster and Nina Graham are organising a pop-up shop this weekend. The shop will be in Long Eaton, outside Long Eaton Cycles on Tamworth Road. It will be open on Saturday 5th June from 10am until 2pm.

A Hucknall based bowls club held an open day for people to try their hand at the sport on Bank Holiday Monday.

Titchfield Park Bowls Club on Park Drive, which was established in 1935, hosted the event to encourage more people to take up the sport. It formed part of Bowls England's national campaign called Bowls Big Weekend, an initiative that affiliated clubs across the country signed up to in order to help boost the sport's popularity.

A Hucknall based businessman has launched an app that allows people to select and order takeaways from an array of local eateries in the town.

Steve Hodgkinson founded Hucknall Eats four weeks ago with the aim of helping encourage people to buy their takeaways from local businesses. At present, they have 24 local establishments signed up.

Over 5000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at Hucknall's vaccination centre since it first opened in March.

The centre which is based at Rolls Royce Leisure Centre is run by brothers Ammar, Qammar and Adnan Nazir, as well as Ammar's wife Ruckhsana .