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Mansfield is a town in local government district. The town itself has a population of around 70,000, with about 100,000 living in the district. Mansfield is well regarded as an area that has adapted well to change from the old traditional industries associated with the coal mining industry collapse. However, like many other towns, it continues to suffer from glaring problems with Drugs , Alcoholism and Antisocial Behaviour . Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area . ECONOMY Mansfield has a large market square and, focused around the market, a large commercial centre including a museum, the Palace Theatre , and numerous pubs, bars and clubs. Mansfield was originally the home of Mansfield Brewery , once the largest independent brewer in the UK. The brewery was acquired by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £253m in October 1999 , with production of the Mansfield range of ales moving to other parts of the country. The brewery's physical assets were later sold on to Pubmaster Ltd, and the former site of the brewery is now derelict. Several Urban Regeneration projects are underway in Mansfield, including reconstruction of the nearby Kings Mill Hospital. FAMOUS INHABITANTS The Television presenter Richard Bacon came from Mansfield and the singer Alvin Stardust lived there as a child. Classical Pianist John Ogdon was born in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1937 . Mark Holmes, lead singer of the Canadian New Wave / Stadium Rock group Platinum Blonde , was born and partly raised there. {Link without Title} Mansfield is also the home of the Cantamus Girls Choir , World Choir Olympics champions. The ancestral home of Lord Byron , Newstead Abbey , is located not far away in Ravenshead . TRANSPORT Buses in Mansfield are primarily operated by Stagecoach , with Trent Barton , Veolia Transport (Dunn-Line) and Unity Coaches also operating in the area. The town's bus station is often cited by locals as one of the very worst places in England to spend time waiting for transport. Planning permission has been given to develop a new bus station on the station road car park and is estimates to cost the region approx £7 million. The bus station, built in 1977, handles around 1,500 buses and 16,000 passenger arrivals a day. It is the busiest bus station in the county outside the City of Nottingham, but does not offer an attractive waiting environment and has poor pedestrian links to the town centre. The new bus station is an attempt for redevelopment of the old bus station site to enhance Mansfield town centre, and to regenerate the whole of the Stockwell Gate area. Potential improvements could include a fully enclosed waiting area; automatic doors for comfort and safety, a tourist information centre, electronic bus and rail departure information, toilets and baby changing facilities, tower with lift and stairs to an elevated walkway connecting to the rail station and bus driver's facilities. The town is one terminus of the A38 . Mansfield is a stop on the Robin Hood Line , a relatively new rail link connecting the town with Nottingham and Worksop . Before the introduction of the Robin Hood Line in the 1990s , Mansfield was the largest town in the UK without a Railway Station . The town was formerly the terminus of the Mansfield And Pinxton Railway , built originally as a horse-drawn Plateway in 1819 and one of the first acquisitions of the newly-formed Midland Railway . Prior to the 1970s, the town had two railway stations: the LNER line on Great Central Road, near Ratcliffe Gate, and the LNR line on Station Road, near Belvedere Street. From the early 1950s, however, the LNER line ceased carrying passengers and remained as a freight only line; and in the 1970s the LNR ceased to travel via Mansfield. A tram service operated between 1905 and 1932 , run by Mansfield & District Light Railways . SPORT Mansfield is home to Mansfield Town , known as the Stags. The team's traditional rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield . Some Yorkshire folk still associate Mansfield with failure to support the UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) ; football matches between Mansfield Town and Doncaster Rovers have seen fans of the latter chant "scab". Angling is well supported in the Mansfield district, where ponds remain from the former textile milling industry. MEDIA The local newspaper is the '' Chad ''. Mansfield is home to one radio station, Mansfield 103.2 , and receives Radio Nottingham and 96 Trent FM clearly. POLITICS Mansfield is notable for being one of the few towns in the United Kingdom with a Directly-elected Mayor . CRITICISMS '', Chapter 16. 1928. In August 2005, Channel 4 's programme ''The Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK'' named Mansfield as the sixth worst British town to live in. TWIN TOWNS
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