Many of our residents live in fuel poverty with the cost of living crisis is only making this more of an issue for even more people. To help reduce fuel poverty locally, work is underway to turn 77 council homes in Radford to super green and energy efficient properties, building on previous schemes across the city. .

The houses and bungalows in Radford are receiving improvements that will not only make the homes warmer and reduce energy bills for tenants, but will also improve the environmental performance of the homes, helping towards Nottingham?s ambition to become carbon neutral by 2028.?

The Deep Retrofit Energy Model (DREeM) improvements being done by Nottingham City Homes, include: ??

• Super insulated wall panels
• New windows (as required), including new internal window surrounds
• A?new super insulated roof structure on the bungalows
• Solar PV panels

• Gas boilers are to be replaced where required
• Roof coverings on the properties are to be renewed.

This project is all part of the council?s commitment to invest in improving council housing and future proofing homes for residents and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund grant.

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A fantastic season of open-air theatre returns to the manicured gardens and beautiful ruins of Newstead Abbey this week.

The season commences at Newstead Abbey with David Walliams' Awful Auntie. Other shows at Newstead include Pride & Prejudice, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Murder, Jane Eyre, and Peter Pan.

The Wollaton season begins On Thursday 16 June with a delve into history in The Gunpowder Plot.

You can find our more and book tickets here

This week, BBC?s Antiques Roadshow came to Wollaton Hall & Deer Park with over 2,000 visitors. Nottingham City Museums team worked with the BBC to host the filming event, which took place on Tuesday.

When aired, it will showcase antiques from visitors and Nottingham City Museum collections and the star of the most recent exhibition at Wollaton Hall, Titus the T. rex. Fiona Bruce and experts from Antiques Roadshow have been shown some fascinating, ancient items over the years ? but none more so than Titus, a 66m-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex ? which is on display throughout the Summer.

The episode is expected to air in Autumn 2022, once we know the date we?ll let you know and you can look out for this on the Wollaton Hall socials too.

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I was pleased to see a new report this week that recommends a range of measures that could be adopted nationally to help reduce the number of people who smoke. The report, called Making Smoking Obsolete, proposes raising the age of sale of tobacco products, investing more in stop-smoking services, promoting vaping as a tool to quit smoking and improving prevention in the NHS.

Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death and disease in Nottingham. Just over one in five (20.9%) adults in Nottingham are smokers ? higher than the England average of 13.9% and the fourth highest smoking prevalence among all local authority areas in England.

We have to do all we can to reduce smoking in our city and in the country as a whole. The facts speak for themselves: smoking tobacco remains the greatest preventable cause of illness, early death and the biggest cause of cancer, with one in four deaths from all cancers estimated to be caused by smoking.

Please remember, we have the Stub it! stop-smoking service in Nottingham that offers individual help and support. People are three times more likely to successfully quit smoking with the help of trained advisors. Find out more about Stub It! here: https://www.ncgpa.org.uk/support-for-people-who-live-in-nottingham-city

Great to welcome people to Nottingham for the Test Match against New Zealand at Trent Bridge. With the Rothesay Tennis Open also happening; it?s great to see the city hosting these world class sporting events.