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Newport Road Closure For SSE Repairs
By Iona Stewart-Richardson
Bignor Place will be closed from its junction with Trafalgar Road to its junction with Terrace Road.
The diversion will affect these streets: Terrace Road, Drake Road, St Johns Road, St Johns Place, Trafalgar Road Diversion route(s) will be signed at the time of closure.
Reasonable facilities will be provided to allow access to adjacent premises while the road is closed.
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The pioneering Beeston factory visited by Gandhi where telephone equipment was made It shaped Beeston as we know it
Inside Beeston s British L.M Ericsson & Company, 1921. (Image supplied by Beeston & District Local History Society)
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For 107 years, a telecommunications factory in a town on Nottingham s outskirts has pioneered technological advancements, employee welfare standards, and shaped Beeston today as we know it .
Director of Tourism, Donovan White (second left) with the riders at Redlight District during the Discover Jamaica by Bike event.
The Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston was abuzz last Saturday as the first leg of Discover Jamaica by Bike headed off to Holywell Park in the hills of Blue Mountains.
Members of the Jamaica Cycling Association, led by Dennis Chung, participated in the ride, which took them along: Trafalgar Road, pass Devon House, Bob Marley Museum, Hope Gardens, then to Papine, Strawberry Hill Gordon Town Road, Craighton Estate, Irish Town and up the trail to Holywell Park.
The foundation for this consumer cycling experience was set in 2020 when Director of Tourism, Donovan White and members of the Association participated in the pilot phase of the event. The experience is a new tourism initiative rooted in active travel and the development of outdoor programmes and is expected to be a staple on the menu of things to do across the island.
Indecent images A PERVERT who used the dark web to access images depicting the sexual abuse of young girls tried to cover his tracks with specialist software designed to clean up his computer. Nicola May, prosecuting, described how police executed a search warrant at 49-year-old Ernani Robaldo-Sibona’s home in Colchester in February 2019. They acted upon an alert which is triggered when people use the internet to search for or download illegal material relating to children. Robaldo-Sibona’s laptop was seized and a forensic search revealed he had accessed images depicting the abuse of children ranging from the ages of four to 16. The images primarily showed pre-pubescent girls.