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Totally Tropical Nottingham
Visit Woodthorpe Tropical House
Take a look at some of the comments and add
your own to our websites www.mojatu.com
and www.nottinghamnewscentre.com after
you have read this Nottingham Carnival 2013,
issue M0010. Enjoy!
“Wow what a picturesque product! I am happy to see the pages so nicely and clearly
displayed online make good reading. First of all, I like the wonderful flash of
strong colours; again I appreciate the various categories the editorial is offering
.i.e. Business/Community/Careers/Education/Entertainment etc. Your range is very
wide for a multi-cultured community! For me, this feels new: long-awaited. Gosh I
had no idea Cllr Merlita Bryan coming up from the ranks of Sheriff is now installed
as Mayor.
Mojatu is a cracker, and long-awaited! This certainly is not the first magazine to
surface from within the Afrikan Caribbean sector but so far is the best production
I have seen. This goes without saying: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK I am sure many of
us will now be encouraged to come together in order to pursue our common aim .i.e.
UNITY!”
Pitman Browne, Poet and Author, Nottingham
“Looks very eye-catching and nicely presented. Well done!”
Jeremy Prince, Nubian Link
“I would love one of them big posters with the Mayor on to put in our window I
have seen them and they look great but no shop in Meadows have them. I think it is
important that we are not isolated; actually I would love to do a story about the
area as it gets left out of most things.”
Go Digit All, Bridgeway Centre, Meadows, Nottingham
“Congratulations I just read it. Great job I’m proud of you at Mojatu and the
Nottingham News Centre. You are finally doing what was in your heart. With God’s
blessings we can all do amazing things.”
Massimiliano Caldini, Restaurant Owner, New York
“Hi Norma, you’ve provided some good material for deeper, academic reflection and
for promoting community entrepreneurship. ”
Michael J. Mills, Sociology Lecturer, London
Imagine being in a tropical, luscious, warm
place surrounded by greenery, plump
fish and a waterfall? Many of you by now
will be dreaming of the distant Caribbean
shores, Kenya or beyond. Well, you don’t
need to spend all that money, travel around
six thousand nautical miles to experience
a sense of the tropics in Nottingham! Visit
Woodthorpe Tropical House, in the grounds
of Woodthorpe Grange Park, situated on
Woodthorpe Drive, Nottingham NG5 4HA
and get a sense of the tropics for free.
The tropical greenhouse opened in 1995 as
part of a redevelopment and modernization
programme at Woodthorpe Park. It houses a
wide selection of exotic plants from all over
the world that would not normally survive in
British climates without sufficient protection
and heat. There is a small waterfall and pond,
housing several Koi Carp Platinum fish,
introduced in 1996 as ‘fry’ (baby fish).
Free admission, open Tuesday to Friday
9-4pm (summer months), weekends 9 -12
noon. Tours of the Greenhouse can be
arranged with the Nursery Manager on 0115
915 0074.
Leading Universities for studying Botany
Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Derby,
Oxford, Keele, Cambridge, Manchester,
Sheffield Hallam and others.
See www.ukcoursefinder.com
UCAS tariff 160-340 points (‘A’ Levels grades
CC-AAB) usually including Biology or
chemistry.
Types of Jobs in Botany
Employment in conservation, botanical
gardens and collections, teaching, government
research agencies, environmental protection
agencies,
universities,
environmental
consultancies, agriculture, horticulture and the
food industry.
Salary
Starting salaries can be around £22,000
a year. Botanists in research posts earn up
to £30,000 a year, and senior lecturers at
universities may earn around £55,000 a
year. Salaries for people working in private
industry will vary considerably.