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A brand new look for Newark Library

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booksFollowing extensive renovation work, Newark Library re-opens at 9am on Monday 19 May.

The whole look of the library has been updated with

  • A new layout
  • A new coffee area
  • A dedicated local studies area
  • New shelving, furniture and equipment
  • A meeting room available for community hire
  • £40,000 of new books

Celebrate the re-openig at the library’s FREE Family Fun Day on Saturday 31 May. The official opening ceremony will take place at 10.30am, with activities for all the family taking place from 11am to 3pm.

WIN tickets to Newark Festival!

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Newark Festival returns to Riverside Park in June and, over the next three weeks, courtesy of Radio Newark and the Liz Hobbs Group, we have four pairs of tickets to give away on our shows…

There’ll be a new competition on Girls Around Town every Saturday from 3 to 17 May – listen in between 10am and 1pm each week, answer an easy question about the event and you and a friend could be joining the audience for one of the live concerts on either Friday 20 or Saturday 21 June.

union jFirst up, on Saturday 3 May, we’re giving away a pair of tickets for the Friday to see Union J, Rough Copy, Luke Friend, Loveable Rogue, Tich and Ollie Marland.

You’ll have until 9pm on Thursday 8 May to get your answer in and there’ll be a reminder of the question and how to enter here shortly after the end of Saturday’s show… 

One down, three to go

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The girls are back in (and around!) town…

On air this morning with the first of four shows from the Radio Newark studio, we welcomed Nicky Porter, Yvette Karan and Jo Lister as guests. And before we knew it, three hours had flown by.

nicky and yvette - 2Nicky and Yvette told us all about their new Choice Matters programme, while Jo had us in stitches talking about the perils of having a pee in the Arctic!

jo listerIf you didn’t get chance to make a note of our guests’ contact details during the show itself, here they are

  • For information about Choice Matters workshops and Yvette’s clinics, visit her website
  • To make a donation towards Jo’s fundraising for Beaumond House before the 2 May deadline, go to her Just Giving page

Tune in next Saturday between 10am and 1pm for all you (n)ever wanted to know about foot peels, guests Deborah Garlick, Nadine Cooper and Liz Hobbs – not to mention the first of three weekly competitions to win tickets to Newark Festival…