Nottingham Trent University Vice-Chancellor Edward Peck to step down

Professor Peck will leave NTU in the summer after 11 years at the helm. Recruitment for his successor as Vice-Chancellor and President will begin in February. It is not known what Professor Peck will go onto do after leaving the university.

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First wave of acts announced for Nottingham’s Beat The Streets festival 2025

The first set of artists playing Nottingham’s Beat The Streets charity fundraiser festival in 2025 has been announced.

The annual event will see more than 30 artists play across venues in the city centre on Sunday, January 26 to raise money for rough sleepers.

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The Cure to Amyl and The Sniffers – Platform’s top albums of 2024

From The Cure’s long-awaited comeback to Fontaines D.C. cementing themselves as one of the best artists of the 21st century, 2024 has been anything but a boring year for music.

As we look ahead to the new year, we asked our writers to choose their favourite record of 2024.

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15 years ago JT Soar was an abandoned fruit and vegetable warehouse. Now it’s one of Nottingham’s greatest music venues

In 2009, a group of young musicians transformed an old fruit and vegetable warehouse in Sneinton into an iconic DIY music venue and recording studio.

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Nottingham Varsity 2025 Ice Hockey – when is it, how much are tickets and when do they go on sale?

Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham are set to once again go head-to-head for next year’s Varsity series – which kicks off in…

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‘Everyone’s Getting Involved’- re-imagining of Talking Heads iconic ‘Stop Making Sense’ ironically doesn’t make any at all

Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ is the best live album ever made. Feel free to disagree, but you’d be wrong. The exceptionally strange and beautiful…

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