{"id":16814,"date":"2017-03-09T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16814"},"modified":"2017-03-09T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:09:12","slug":"2017-community-heroes-tram-naming-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16814","title":{"rendered":"2017 Community Heroes tram naming in Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day that Nottingham Express Transit celebrated their 13th anniversary they were also renaming a tram as <strong>222<\/strong> \u2013 the Community Heroes tram \u2013 received the name Michelle and Richard Daniels. The couple set up the Forever Stars charity in 2013 following the tragic loss of their baby daughter Emily, who was stillborn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Stephanie Moss-Pearce, NET\u2019s Assistant Marketing Manager, explains more: \u201cram number <strong>222<\/strong> is kept aside to honour community heroes as we celebrate the tram network\u2019s birthday each year. We think Michelle and Richard, whose work has helped so many other grieving parents across Nottingham, are a really deserving couple and if it helps to keep their charity in the local spotlight so much the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year the charity raised over \u00a3100,000 to build and equip the \u201cSerenity Suite\u201d, a bereavement facility for parents of stillborn babies and neonatal baby loss at the Queen\u2019s Medical Centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>222<\/strong> was previously named Barbara White \u2013 the founder of When You Wish Upon A Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day that Nottingham Express Transit celebrated their 13th anniversary they were also renaming a tram as 222 \u2013 the Community Heroes tram \u2013 received the name Michelle and Richard Daniels. The couple set up the Forever Stars charity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16815,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814\/revisions\/16815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}