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The first day we were in Radford and St Ann's, we kept asking people about how the area got its reputation for violence. People like the councillor on Page 38 told us the reputation was undeserved and was manufactured by the media to make for a good...

I had 22 years in the coal mines, all underground. I started down there when I was about 22. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world when I was young. In fact, up until the time I was injured I'd been planning

We went up to the St Ann's area of Nottingham late on Saturday night to talk to a family who live in a council house on a notorious road called Kingsthorpe Close. While we were driving there, the white taxi driver told us that he hoped we were wearing...

It is hard to believe that Norway's Skatebård could ever top the off-kilter brilliance of his debut, Skateboarding was a Crime (in 1989), but somehow he has. Released in 2002 on the Telle label (what happened to them?) to no fanfare whatsoever...

I started working in the mines in about '69 or '70, when I was 17 years old. I just worked part-time during the summer. In '73, I hired on full-time. I worked 22 years there. I started out underground, then I moved to the outside for 18 years. I was a...

John Mullins lives in an area of Nottingham called The Meadows. It's essentially one large estate of small houses linked by tiny alleyways and passages with a shopping precinct in the centre. That's where they have the shrine to Nathan Williams...

I started to get into pop music in the early 80s and, to me, Rumble Strips sound like all my favourite groups from that time of industrial disputes, yuppies and riots. They remind me of a melancholic Dexy’s Midnight Runners, a doo-wop

NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK This was the only black guy we saw the whole time we were down there and he wasn't fucking around. That's an airbrushed portrait of Left Eye, Aaliyah, and Tupac

I'm originally from West Virginia. My sisters all moved down to Ohio for work and they just stayed there. I didn't go because I couldn't leave my momma. See, she had her legs took off from diabetes. It's called sugar diabetes. It's like a blood...

I used to be a concrete worker, but I've just gone through knee surgery. They operated on me using spinal cord anaesthetics, and I thought that was a bit uncomfortable. I didn't mind that big old needle. I've been through those kinds of things before...

have lived in Radford since 1963 and I've seen the place change a lot. The fact of the matter is that family life has gone down and anti-social behaviour has become more of a problem.

I've lived in Coober Pedy for 28 years now, although it was never my plan. In 1977, I decided to move to Perth but didn't get any further than CP. I didn't come here to go mining, just to visit a friend on my way through to WA. When I first arrived, we...