SNEINTON pensioners were learning karate. An increase in muggings was making older residents worried about safety, but some were taking matters into their own hands. Or fists.
A four-week course of talks and demonstrations at Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre taught pensioners to be ready for an attack and gave them more confidence to go out.
The lessons were being given by a tutor of Zanshin Shotokan Karate Dojo and would involve advice on tackling a mugger as well as avoiding situations which could lead to attack.
"He told us to carry handbags clasped in our hands in front of us and not at our sides," one participant said of an early class.
World Cup stars were queuing up to play in Don Masson's testimonial match at Meadow Lane. Six players almost certain to play for England or Scotland in Spain that summer were committed to join the squad that would face a Magpies past-and-present team.
They included Forest trio Peter Shilton, Viv Anderson and John Robertson, former Reds Trevor Francis and Asa Hartford and Arsenal's Kenny Sansom.
Facing them would be former Meadow Lane favourites such as Arthur Mann, who was then playing for Mansfield Town, Les Bradd, of Wigan, and David Needham, of Forest.
Skegness was getting a new look. The entrance to the open-air swimming pool had been cleared away and the adjoining Embassy Ballroom had been gutted as part of a �1m scheme to create an entertainment centre. That involved converting the Embassy to an amusement arcade and building an entrance foyer for a 1,200-seat octagonal theatre which would be built as a rear extension.
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