From cows to carnations…meet the Derbyshire County Show’s oldest exhibitor
While Britain was basking in the post-war euphoria, 13-year-old Dorothy Taylor was preparing for her first-ever Derbyshire County Show. The year was 1946 and the Taylor family, from Leabrooks, were assembling cattle from their herd of British Fresion cows to compete in the Show which, in this year, was to be held at Alfreton Hall. […]
Stoke Hall gets set to commemorate the War of the Roses’ forgotten battle
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a series of events taking place in Nottinghamshire this weekend to mark the last forgotten battle of the War of the Roses. The visitors will be taken on battlefield tours, watching re-enactment displays and viewing an exhibition of thousands of miniature soldiers during the event, which is being […]
Derby teacher Marie is a classroom hero – and now she’s set for national final scheduled for BBC2
A profoundly deaf woman who teaches at the school she attended from the age of three has been shortlisted for a national education award and named a ‘classroom hero’. Marie Watson, who teaches at Royal School for the Deaf Derby, has beaten off competition from 700 other teachers to make the final five in […]
FREE buses for visitors to this year’s Derbyshire County Show as organisers aim to ease traffic congestion
Organisers of the Derbyshire County Show and Food Fayre have arranged for FREE buses to take visitors to the event, which will take place at Locko Park in Spondon on Sunday, June 24. There will be four routes heading to the 138th Derbyshire County Show and Food Fayre; one from Derby city centre, a second […]
Lubrizol helps Remap’s engineers to make a difference to people’s lives
The Derbyshire branch of a national charity which recruits retired engineers to invent bespoke aids for people with disabilities says it will be able to help more clients after it was handed hundreds of pounds by a Hazelwood company. The Derby, Burton and District panel of the charity Remap has been given £500 by […]
The next MasterChef? Pupils at St Giles celebrate the opening of a brand-new Learning Kitchen
A Derby school which caters for children with a range of special educational needs and disabilities is hoping that their brand-new Learning Kitchen will help pupils to gain new skills. St Giles School, on Hampshire Road, is the only special primary school in the city. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted inspectors, St Giles aims to […]
Bowl up, bowl up for fund-raising family fun at Tenpin Derby
A family fun day is being held at a newly-refurbished bowling alley to raise money for children with life-threatening illnesses. Tenpin Derby, in Osmaston Park Road, has arranged the event on Saturday, May 26, for the East Midlands-based charity When You Wish Upon A Star. The family entertainment centre in Forester’s Leisure Park will welcome […]
Dean is keen to get in the saddle as he prepares to ride 50 miles for Nottinghamshire Hospice
A dad of two who cycles to work just once a week is gearing up to cycle a gruelling 50 miles around Nottinghamshire next month to raise money for charity in memory of his grandad. Dean Grimshaw, a school business manager from Woodthorpe, is currently training ahead of the Cycle Live bike ride on June […]
Cruel death of Derbyshire dad within weeks of diagnosis with one-in-a-million disease
Less than a month after receiving the devastating news that her fit, bright and charismatic husband had an obscure and fatal brain disorder, Tracey Osbourne watched him die the cruellest of deaths. 55-year-old Phil Osborne, a respected and pioneering metrologist for Lubrizol, was diagnosed with Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, so rare there’s just a one-in-a-million chance […]
Leading UK educator hails former Derby head teacher’s “powerful” lesson-sharing invention
One of the country’s leading education experts has hailed a Derby inventor’s innovative online lesson-sharing platform after seeing first-hand how it has boosted teaching at a city school. Ty Goddard, who is co-founder of the Education Foundation, described Paul Rose’s online product YouTeachMe as “an extremely powerful educational tool” during a visit to the […]