Archive 2026

Time to Act on Bus Service Decline (14-1-26)

We were advised before Christmas that our evening and Sunday ‘90A’ service to Bingham and Nottingham will be discontinued from February 1st 2026.

The Mayor of the East Midlands, Claire Ward, is currently promoting her Mayor’s Big Transport Conversation and she is giving you the chance to have your say on transport via an online survey.

Taking part in the survey is the most important thing you can do to try and improve our public transport. It took me just 9 minutes.

Unless we tell the Mayor, what we want, there is little chance anything will change.

So, if you care, do the survey now. It closes 8th February.

Find out the Mayor's plan by clicking the link below, and once you are on that page you can scroll down and complete the survey.

The Mayor's Big Transport Conversation - East Midlands Combined County Authority

Alternatively, you can go straight to the survey page by clicking:

The Mayor's Big Transport Survey

Tony Jarrow

Winner of 'It's in the News' Quiz (13-1-26)

It was the Parish Council Meeting this evening. The winner of the 'In the News' Quiz, which appeared in the November edition of Cropwell Bishop News, was drawn from the pile of correct entries.

And the winner was .... Steve Phillips.

He will receive a £20 voucher, donated by the Parish Council, for use at Gary Jowett's Butchers.

Tony Jarrow

Don't lose it! (13-1-26)

Rewarding Work (10-1-26)

It was cold for the Cropwell Bishop Litter Pickers this morning, but the beautiful sunshine - and coffees from Simon at Greggs - helped warm them.
About 20 bags were collected. Enjoy ithe area while it all looks spik and span.

Mel Stanley

Is this You? (6-1-26)

Caretaker Required (6-1-26)

Buses Update (6-1-26)

We were advised before Christmas that sadly our evening and Sunday ‘90A’ service to Bingham and Nottingham is to be discontinued from February 1st 2026.

The 90 route between Nottingham and Newark (and Fernwood) is being taken over by Nottingham City Transport (NCT) and none of the ‘90’ buses will serve Cropwell Bishop.

This is disappointing as the service provided an attractive direct bus (25 minutes) into town as compared with a journey of about 55 minutes through the villages and estates on our daytime NCT ‘11’ service (see * below).

I and others in the village have already expressed our disappointment to the County and our local MP and Councillors and requested that consideration be given to a replacement evening and Sunday service.

The responsibility for our buses is being transferred from the County Council to The East Midlands Combined County Authority (from April 2026) and the Mayor of the East Midlands is currently consulting on public transport around the region in advance of the forthcoming Transport Strategy for the region.

It would be helpful to make your views known to help Cropwell Bishop get a satisfactory, useful bus service. You can find more information here:
The Mayor's Big Transport Conversation - East Midlands Combined County Authority.

In my response to the survey, in addition to a replacement evening and Sunday service, I requested more direct commuter and shopper services to Nottingham and Bingham.

*Incidentally there is a faster route to West Bridgford and Town (about 40 minutes) if you take the ‘747’ at 25 minutes past the hour from Church St to Radcliffe and change there to the Mainline service.
However, this means paying twice unless you are fortunate to have a bus pass.
(More details of our village bus services can be found by clicking on the "Travel" tab of this website.)

Reminder - the 90A is not available from February 1st.

John Greenwood