A special football team is being set up in a bid to turn young people away from gun crime in Nottingham. Players from the main inner-city areas are joining forces to take on an Ilkeston Town XI later this month.
It is designed to mend fences in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Danielle Beccan that was partly blamed on neighbourhood feuds.
The team is recruiting teenagers from The Meadows, St Anns, and Radford, areas with long-standing rivalries.
Maurice Samuels, the youth worker who has organised the team has been based in all three areas, and used to play football for Ilkeston Town.
His inner city team is due to meet Ilkeston on 23 November.
The players will all wear black armbands - a tribute to Nottingham's victims of gun crime - and before the game there will be a minute's silence.
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