Executive Editor @nottslive, @derbyshire_live and @LincsLive. Ex-crime hack, dad of two and obsessive @LeicesterTigers fan.
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
Jun 4
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
May 1
What a night at the Reach Plc awards!
@nottslive is brand of the year 🎉. So chuffed after a tough year - what a team of reporters. So proud.
@DylanHayward is the rising star of the year 🎉
@PJLynchjourno is LDR of the year
And @MattLeeJourno highly commended for regional journalist of the year
Amazing work goes on every single day in all our newsrooms and it was such an honour for all of us to win.
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Apr 24
Totally with @OliverPridmore here. I can't understand the motivation for launching this - how does it help restore trust? Surely the resources could be better used elsewhere. nottinghampost.com/news/news…
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Apr 18
Thank the lord for @LeicesterTigers - the only sporting team in Leicester playing today 😬
Apr 18
30' | TRY & CONVERSION – TIGERS
Gabriel Hamer-Webb gets his first Tigers hat-trick, the wing diving over after a sensational miss-pass from Jack van Poortvliet.
🐯 Leicester Tigers 29 - 3 Newcastle Red Bulls 🐂
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Mar 25
Bit of a shambles
Mar 24
In a twist of events, Leicestershire County Council has temporarily pulled its term time proposals and gone back to the drawing board in a cabinet meeting this afternoon.
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Mar 22
Voice gone, once again, incredible stuff @LeicesterTigers
Mar 22
What a CRAZY ending 🤯
@LeicesterTigers grab the bonus-point with the last play of the game! 🐯
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
Mar 20
Nottinghamshire Police tried to stop us reporting matters of public interest and when it didn't go the way they wanted it to, they reported us to our regulator.
Thankfully, IPSO saw sense and threw their complaint out. For the Chief Constable to say now that this was a mistake is quite frankly pathetic.
Instead of trying to protect their reputation, the force and Chief Constable should have been communicating properly with the people who really matter here - the families of the victims and the survivors of those horrific attacks.
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I was told before Nottinghamshire County Council’s meeting today media had to sit upstairs - we usually sit in the chamber.
No solid reason why. Reports of several empty seats in the chamber - random.
We’ve argued it. Told I’ll be allowed back in after lunch.
#LDReporter
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Mar 19
This was dealt with incredibly poorly by @NottsCC - they could have let us back in, there were lots of empty seats, but instead they blindly stick to their guns and the Reform members applaud.
Mar 19
Nottinghamshire County Council's Reform leadership has stopped us reporting from the council chamber without any explanation why.
Our reporter was told to report on a key meeting from an upstairs room, even though there were at least five empty seats.
We've challenged it.
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
Mar 3
Wrap-up from today's Nottingham Inquiry. This was the incident police told us about in a non-disclosable briefing, trying to prevent us and others reporting it. We decided to report it in the public interest.
By @JoshHartley70
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Nottinghamshire’s pothole crisis latest.
A man was reportedly taken to hospital after falling into a pothole the other week.
Reform says the road where the reported incident took place will be fully repaired within months.
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Feb 21
Just stay away from Geoff Parling
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23 Oct 2025
Most councils are skint, but not @NottsCC which has found 75 grand to spend on culture war nonsense. Presume council tax won't be going up then? nottinghampost.com/news/loca…
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18 Oct 2025
Well that was bloody lovely 🐯
18 Oct 2025
80' | PENALTY - TIGERS
UNBELIEVABLE!
With the game on a knife-edge, Billy Searle steps up with the clock in the red and slots the penalty to win the game.
A massive victory at home!
🐯 Leicester Tigers 22 – 20 Bath Rugby🛁
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
24 Sep 2025
Here at @nottslive we're continuing to fight for Hilda Pannell, 96, who, after six months of trying, 'wont give up' trying to get a handrail fitted.
She has previously fallen over twice on the path and now struggles to leave the house by herself.
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2 Sep 2025
So very confused about how we could have made this any easier for Reform - we bent over backwards to make sure what we were writing was accurate nottinghampost.com/news/news…
2 Sep 2025
The @NottsCC leader Cllr Mick Barton has given his first interview since banning his @reformparty_uk councillors from engaging with local newspaper @nottslive. The ban followed an article about local government reorganisation @ITVCentral
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
1 Sep 2025
Today we have taken the unusual step of publishing the content of text messages between @OliverPridmore and the leader of @NottsCC Mick Barton to show we're not distorting facts. nottinghampost.com/news/news…
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Sam Dimmer retweeted
1 Sep 2025
Reform's ban on the Nottingham Post and Local Democracy Reporters is a sinister early sign of an increasingly hostile attitude to journalists, journalism, and democracy that the party could take all the way to Westminster. Link to my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/frombe…
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