{"id":26524,"date":"2019-03-15T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26524"},"modified":"2019-03-15T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:18:40","slug":"2019-net-community-hero-tram-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26524","title":{"rendered":"2019 NET Community Hero tram named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the recent traditions on Nottingham Express Transit around its anniversary is the naming of a tram after a Community Hero with Citadis <strong>222<\/strong> the tram reserved for this honour. The 2019 renaming took place on Friday 15th March with the lucky recipient being David Stewart OBE, a local head teacher and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->David first arrived in Nottingham in 1972 to study history and was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to education. He had previously worked in a hospital in Kent and volunteered at a Junior Training Centre before training in Leeds to teach children with severe learning disabilities. He worked at a school in south London for a few years before returning to Nottingham as Senior Master (and later Head Teacher) at Shepherd School. A decade ago he became head at the new Oak Field School in Bilborough which has since achieved six outstanding Ofsted inspections.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Moss-Pearce, NET Marketing Manager, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be able to offer David some of the public recognition he deserves after so many years\u2019 service to education, the arts and children with disabilities. He joins a number of unsung heroes to have trams named after them, alongside some of the city\u2019s most famous names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David himself added: \u201cThis is a real honour and one that really recognises the achievements of pupils and staff at the school, and all those who work with children &#8211; particularly those with special needs. It\u2019s particularly fitting that this recognition comes from NET as trams provide one of the easiest forms of public transport for people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>222<\/strong> was previously named Michelle and Richard Daniels and will keep this new name for 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the recent traditions on Nottingham Express Transit around its anniversary is the naming of a tram after a Community Hero with Citadis 222 the tram reserved for this honour. The 2019 renaming took place on Friday 15th March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26524\">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\/26524"}],"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=26524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26524\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}