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The world’s largest drawing festival, the Big Draw, returns to Newark and Sherwood this month! There are great events to get involved with during the half term, offering a free creative outlet for local people of all ages.

A plan to further improve patient access to Newark Hospital has been turned into a reality this week, as contractors officially started work on a new 80-space car park.

Newark and Sherwood District Council is once again supporting Recycle Week and it is challenging residents to see if they can improve their recycling at home.

A one-of-a-kind Community Tree Nursery was formally opened by the Sherwood Forest Trust and Newark and Sherwood District Council earlier this month. 

This year, Newark and Sherwood District Council is going the extra step to support businesses and to encourage visitors to visit the town as it announces free weekend and Bank Holiday car parking at all pay and display car parks that they manage this festive period.

Newark is a unique town that has plenty of potential. It’s well-connected, has a rich history, contains a great marketplace in its centre, and features a vast number of excellent independent shops.

Newark and Sherwood District Council is asking all applicants currently on the housing register, to respond to individual letters it has issued.

Newark and Sherwood District Council officers arrived at Turner Lane play area in Boughton on Tuesday morning, continuing the £350,000 redevelopment of play parks across the district, to find that vandals had smashed down and damaged all the secure fencing surrounding the site. Upon entering the park, the vandals had bent the fencing, threw rubbish everywhere and left.

Newark and Sherwood District Council is working alongside Newark College to host a morning meeting for local construction businesses to find out more about regeneration and growth in the district all while a tasty breakfast is on offer.

Newark and Sherwood District Council is urging any witnesses to come forward following two large fly-tips dumped in the local area last week.