NOTTS County released plans for a new ticket scheme aimed at rewarding season ticket-holders while keeping out hooligans.

"I believe a spin-off of our policy is that we are actively and successfully discouraging hooligans," club director Lou Levin said. "Parents do not fret at all at the prospect of their children coming to watch Notts County. I think we are pricing the hooligan out of the ground."

The club was offering £8 youth tickets for the remaining ten League matches on the schedule, as well as £5 memberships for adults in the Magpie Discount Club, which would give them a £1 discount on each match. Adult tickets bought on the day cost £2.

WILLIAM Whitlock, Labour MP for Nottingham North, had a poetic take on buying British.

On a train to London after attending a rally organised by the National Union of Knitwear and Hosiery Workers, he composed the following ode:

"When British goods with British skills are made by all the jacks and Jills

Employed in British enterprise and by each tag which tells the size

There is a note which boldly says 'Made in Great Britain,' then it pays

To buy what you will know is best don't hesitate a moment lest

Your eyes stray to the foreign stuff which may to you look good enough

And have the most attractive prices for have a care, what now entices

May end another British job and then when it's too late to sob

And all those British skills have gone

And only foreign goods you don

You will pay most handsomely for you will then in ransom be

Held across a foreign barrel by those with whom you cannot quarrel

The moral is quite clear to see buy British, best, most certainly."

A 30-FOOT apple tree was chopped down in a woman's garden while she was away. A neighbour told police a labourer asked if the tree needed cutting. The neighbour said it just needed pruning.