A row has broken out over recent comments made by the Sheriff of Nottingham that some areas of the city are a "dump". During a sometimes heated exchange at the Council House on Monday (April 10), some councillors accused the Sheriff of "putting the city down."
Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos, who represents the Berridge ward on behalf of Labour, was unanimously backed to be Nottingham's new sheriff during a meeting in May. Later that month, the Sheriff appeared on BBC Radio Nottingham and responding to a caller who said the city was going "down and down", Councillor Quddoos partly agreed.
She said: "There are parts of the city that absolutely are a dump. I represent a ward in the city where we have hotspots which could be better. Unfortunately, the city council doesn't have a bottomless pit of money and if we had a bottomless pit of money, we would deal with those hotspots and areas of the city that are a dump."
