Spot anyone you know on these fabulous pics from our Eastwood archives?
Mansfield & Ashfield Chad
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2012: A fabulous shot snapped at an open dance session for the over-60s, part of the Eastwood Arts Festival. (Photo: Brian Eyre)
From charity days to community occasions, if there was an event going on, the Advertiser’s snappers were there to capture the moment. Do you remember these, or recognise someone in these photographs?
2012: Pupils from Brinsley Primary School take part in a charity skipping event to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. (Photo: Marisa Cashill)
2008: Richard Robinson presented awards to pupils at Kimberley Primary School at their afternoon assembly. (Photo: Brian Eyre)
2010: Priory Catholic Primary School in Eastwood held a toy day, sweet sale and non-uniform day, to help raise money for the Haiti Appeal. (Photo: Brian Eyre)
2008: A superb shot snapped at the rehearsal for the latest Helen O’Grady production, held at Holy Trinity Church in Kimberley. (Photo: LINDSAY COLBOURNE)
2006: This duo are ready to board the Brinsley Church float, at Brinsley Carnival. (Photo: BRIAN EYRE)
2012: This smiley trio are enjoying the Underwood Gala. (Photo: Brian Eyre)
2010: Students at Eastwood Comprehensive School are all smiles while receiving their A-level results. (Photo: Photographer: Lindsay Colbourne)
2006: A fabulous shot taken at Eastwood Schools’ Carnival Parade. (Photo: BRIAN EYRE)
A prolific bike thief was finally caught after the frustrated mother of one of his victims tracked him down and protested outside his house for three days with a “Where’s My Bike Dave?” placard.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after one of the most photographed trees in the country was cut down. The tree at Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian's Wall, was made famous when it appeared in the 1991 Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
Sally Nugent house: BBC Breakfast presenter Sally lives in a gorgeous house with her husband and child – who prefer to stay out of the limelight – take a tour
A teenager has been jailed for five years for serious sexual offences against two children in Dundee. Brandon Wallace, 19, was also handed a further three-year extended sentence when he appeared at the High Court in Aberdeen on Wednesday. Wallace committed the assaults between June 2017 and June 2020, and was found guilty in May of this year.
Edward Wilson, 39, killed Akeem Francis-Kerr with a single stab to the neck at Valesha's nightclub in Walsall just after 5am on 11 March. Prosecutor Maria Karaiskos KC told the jury at Stafford Crown Court Wilson stabbed Mr Francis-Kerr on the dancefloor "out of anger, arrogance or jealousy" after returning from the toilet to find him talking to two women in an area of the club where Wilson had been standing since he arrived an hour before. During his own evidence, Wilson admitted the pair had had an "altercation" and exchanged blows, but denied stabbing Mr Francis-Kerr, saying he did not even know there had been a stabbing until his friend admitted he may have "got" him when they had left the club.
A terrified elderly couple had described the moment they found themselves in the crossfire of a drugs feud when two Leeds gunmen open fired on their home.