number of contributions including from counsellor david mallon, the leader of the council. we will then have ross middleton, head teacher at huntington academy followed by professor cheryl west, vice chancellor of the nerve to eight university of nottingham. together with the reverend, the chaplain of the university. we will then hear from alex noris mp and caroline henry, the police and crime commissioner. we will then move back to counsellor david millan and move into a minutes silence. after that we will hear from some of our faith leaders across our great city of nottingham put up together with contributions from members of the family and our portfolio holderfor communities before we close the event. without further ado i m going to introduce counsellor mccullough, lord mayor of nottingham. thank you. as lord mayor i would like to welcome as lord mayor i would like to welcome you all here today and thank you for welcome you all here today and thank you for coming. this
number of contributions including from counsellor david mallon, the leader of the council. we will then have ross middleton, head teacher at huntington academy followed by professor cheryl west, vice chancellor of the nerve to eight university of nottingham. together with the reverend, the chaplain of the university. we will then hear from alex noris mp and caroline henry, the police and crime commissioner. we will then move back to counsellor david millan and move into a minutes silence. after that we will hear from some of our faith leaders across our great city of nottingham put up together with contributions from members of the family and our portfolio holderfor communities before we close the event. without further ado i m going
grateful to ourfaith of you in a moment put up i m grateful to our faith leaders for not only being here but also for opening your buildings to those who are morning this week and for leading us in our prayers in nottingham. this week has been awful for those of you who was lost loved ones, it will of course take time to come to terms with the loss if the dividend is possible to get over something so terrible. but we stand together with you. thank you nottingham for coming together this evening. let s continue to care for each other in the days to come. thank you. you i would now call upon ross middleton, head teacher of huntington academy. thank you. good evening huntington academy. thank you. good evening everybody. ian was a site manager, evening everybody. ian was a site manager, our site managerat manager, our site manager at huntington manager, our site managerat huntington academy at saint anne s.
expecting a minute silence as you heard when the bells there toll for six o clock this evening. many of the speakers that we ve heard from all saying the same thing, nottingham together. we heard from counsellor david mellen who thanked the people of the city for their solidarity and he urged them to care for each other in the coming days. there were lots of tributes to ian coates, one of the people killed but that the head teacher of huntington academy ross middleton where he was the caretaker mentioned many of these stories that he brought to him, talking of him helping the children with their christmas displays, that he helped them build castles in their reading area and that he was full of fun, especially when year six had their summer water fights. as you can see there are thousands of people in the centre of nottingham to remember the three