number of contributions including from counsellor david mallon, the leader of the council. we will then have ross middleton, head teacher at huntington academy followed by professor cheryl west, vice chancellor of the nerve to eight university of nottingham. together with the reverend, the chaplain of the university. we will then hear from alex noris mp and caroline henry, the police and crime commissioner. we will then move back to counsellor david millan and move into a minutes silence. after that we will hear from some of our faith leaders across our great city of nottingham put up together with contributions from members of the family and our portfolio holderfor communities before we close the event. without further ado i m going to introduce counsellor mccullough, lord mayor of nottingham. thank you. as lord mayor i would like to welcome as lord mayor i would like to welcome you all here today and thank you for welcome you all here today and thank you for coming. this
expecting a minute silence as you heard when the bells there toll for six o clock this evening. many of the speakers that we ve heard from all saying the same thing, nottingham together. we heard from counsellor david mellen who thanked the people of the city for their solidarity and he urged them to care for each other in the coming days. there were lots of tributes to ian coates, one of the people killed but that the head teacher of huntington academy ross middleton where he was the caretaker mentioned many of these stories that he brought to him, talking of him helping the children with their christmas displays, that he helped them build castles in their reading area and that he was full of fun, especially when year six had their summer water fights. as you can see there are thousands of people in the centre of nottingham to remember the three