Tamsin Parnell

Nottingham City Centre has been dominated by protests for the second consecutive day due to a planned English Defence League march. Around 100 police officers lined the streets between the Brian Clough statue, the Theatre Royal and Victoria Centre as protestors from the English Defence League (EDL) clashed with...

No sooner has the result of the EU referendum just about sunk in, we now have a new Prime Minister, after initially being told we would have to wait until September to settle on David Cameron’s successor. And the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, wasn’t keen on hanging around....

When discussing the Britain left behind post-referendum, there has been a liberal use of the word “elites”. It’s used to describe the people that make up higher education, think-tanks, policy groups, the media – those who supposedly shape society. Michael Gove’s “The British people have had enough of experts”...

50.84% of Nottingham residents voted to leave the European Union yesterday in the EU referendum, in line with a 51.9% majority to leave throughout the rest of the country. 120,791 Nottingham residents turned out to vote, representing 61.82% of the 195,394 electorate. There were 130 spoilt ballot papers. 59,318 voters in Nottingham...

Hundreds of Nottingham citizens gathered at the Brian Clough statue in the city centre on June 18th to hold a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting. The statue was adorned with the rainbow flag and was surrounded by tea lights arranged to read ‘LOVE 49’. A framed...

The results of a referendum on whether the University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) have been delayed after several complaints were submitted about the elections process. 10 complaints were received by the Elections Committee, levelled at both sides, including concerns that...

The University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) after more than 669 signatures were submitted by students in a petition.  The referendum, entitled ‘Should the University of Nottingham Students’ Union continue to be...