Nottingham, the city of the Robin Hood legend that became a textiles powerbase during the Industrial Revolution, now struggles with a reputation for drugs killings and teeming with binge drinkers on lawless Saturday nights.
(BBC News)
For the record, I have lived in Nottingham for 18 years, and have never once been the victim of any sort of crime in the City Centre. My old school is bang in the middle of the “dodgy” areas (St Ann’s, Hyson Green, etc), and the only real trouble they have experienced is have iMacs nicked repeatedly (although I would argue that it was the school’s fault – placing them in front of an unreinforced, unalarmed ground-floor window…).
That said, I would definitely not be comfortable alone in Nottingham on a Friday night. But then again, I never feel particularly safe walking on my own through Durham at night…
Nottingham on a weekend (Friday/Saturday) night is probably one of the most unsafe places to be…deinitely more than Durham. However, Durham has its problems…like no lights on the Riverside!
And for reference, i think it’s St. Ann’s!
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David
Gah, you’re right about the spelling. There were a couple of other errors in there as well – corrected now, though. That’ll teach me to post in the middle of the night when, by all rights, I should be asleep…