Welcome to Retford Life online

On the Retford Life website you can catch up with each edition of the magazine with our handy magazine viewer archive, find out about local events coming up in the area with our Local Events Directory and read all about what things are happening with the Retford Life magazine. Plus keep up to date with what groups, clubs and societies are up to across the area with the Community Forum.

Inside the magazine this month

Take a local break Page 8
Debbie Singh-Bhatti on the benefits of a local break
Night raids over Notts Pages 42 & 44
David Cook from the Priories Historical Society looks back at enemy bombing raids in our skies in World War II
Top of the class? Page 48
We find out if Mercedes new B-Class gets top marks
Venus and the Ashen Light Page 66
James Ince from Bassetlaw Astronomical Society on the crescent of Venus and the elusive Ashen Light
Community Pages 10, 12, 20, 26, 30, 36, 46, 50, 54, 55, 58 & 64
Find out what all the local groups are up to in the area

Plus much more...

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About Retford Life magazine

Retford Life is a full colour, glossy monthly lifestyle and community magazine delivered to over 16,300 homes and businesses within the wider Retford area. We handle our own distribution and our delivery areas include Retford town centre and all surrounding villages. Each magazine is produced by local people, for local people and is completely independent of any newspaper or magazine group. It's simply operated by local people who want to encourage communities to use local businesses and work together.

If you are a business serving the Retford area, and are looking for cost effective advertising within the North Nottinghamshire area, then you have found the right place!
The focus of each month's edition is to provide a showcase for the best local businesses and the community, a forum to demonstrate who they are and what they have to offer local residents.
We encourage groups, charities and societies to get in touch, to let us help them publicise what they do, and what's going on in the local area.

Retford Life is delivered to Retford town centre and the surrounding villages of; Askham, Babworth, Barnby Moor, Bevercotes, Bole, Bolham, Bothamsall, Botany Bay, Church Laneham, Clarborough, Clayworth, Coates, Cottam, East Drayton, East Markham, Eaton, Elkesley, Fenton, Gamston, Grove, Haughton, Hayton, Headon, Laneham, Littleborough, Little Gringley, Lound, Markham Moor, Milton, Morton, Neather Headon, North Wheatley, North Leverton, Ordsall, Rampton, Ranby, Ranskill, Rockley, Saundby, South Leverton, South Wheatley, Stokeham, Sturton le Steeple, Sutton, Torworth, Tiln, Treswell, Upton, Welham, West Burton, West Markham, West Drayton and Woodbeck.