Award-winning Derby restaurant COSMO to close as refurbishment continues
COSMO Derby is set to close its doors to the public for a few days as work continues on refurbishing the city centre restaurant. Additional booth seating for large groups, a specially-commissioned mural and a more open plan dining area will be key features of the new-look COSMO Derby. The restaurant chain’s flagship branch in […]
Holocaust survivor who weighed just 3lbs at birth tells Swinton Academy pupils about the horrors of Nazi concentration camp
Students from a South Yorkshire school heard harrowing tales from a Holocaust survivor and paid their respects to victims of genocide around the world during a visit to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum. Over 70 Year 9 pupils from Swinton Academy, near Rotherham, travelled to the centre, in Nottinghamshire, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day […]
Colleagues at Derbyshire-based Lubrizol go head-to-head in old-school gaming challenge for British Heart Foundation
Colleagues at a Hazelwood company went wheel-to-wheel and fought bare-knuckle style when they took each other on in a charity challenge – by playing retro computer games. The event, which took place over two lunch-times last week, saw staff at Lubrizol, in Nether Lane, indulge in a friendly spot of on-screen inter-department rivalry in aid […]
Boys-only wall of fame is installed to help Shirebrook Academy male students be brilliant
A Shirebrook school has launched a new drive to encourage male students to raise their aspirations by installing a wall of fame aimed specifically at praising boys. Shirebrook Academy has launched its ‘Boys Will Be Brilliant!’ scheme which celebrates the successes that male students experience in their studies, sports and activities. It has installed the […]
How Derby special school has turned around the life of youngster with selective mutism – who lost his dad at a young age
The mother of a Derby boy who used a soft toy to ‘speak’ for him following the death of his father has praised staff at St Giles School for the ‘amazing’ work they have done in transforming family life. Lisa Hogan, from Chaddesden, was left devastated when her partner Ryan died unexpectedly at the age […]
Expansion plans are still on the menu as Denstone Hall Farm Shop and Café notches a hat-trick of wins
The owners of one of Staffordshire’s biggest farm shops say they have no plans to rest on their laurels after they completed an unprecedented hat-trick of industry awards in one year. Rupert and Emma Evans, who run Denstone Hall Farm Shop and Café, in Denstone, near Uttoxeter, say that despite their success, 2019 promises to […]
Lubrizol chooses G F Tomlinson to build its £9m training centre in Derbyshire
Hazelwood company Lubrizol has chosen Derbyshire contractor G F Tomlinson to build a new £9m high-tech conferencing centre that it says will strengthen its place at the forefront of the global specialist chemicals industry. The company, in Nether Lane, has taken three years to plan and design the project, which will see the creation of […]
Derbyshire’s chief fire officer hails Shirebrook Academy students as lifesaving heroes
Derbyshire’s top firefighter has hailed five Shirebrook students as heroes after commending them for coming to the rescue of an elderly man who was trapped in his burning home. Terry McDermott, chief fire officer for Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service, said the teenagers saved lives while risking their own safety to help the man, who […]
Contract to build brand-new junior school in Rotherham – Waverley Junior Academy – to be put out to tender
The contract to build a junior school to serve Rotherham’s newest community will now be put out to tender after the scheme was given the green light. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning board has officially approved plans for Waverley Junior Academy, meaning that the search for a construction partner can now begin. The school, which […]
Deaf Derby twins bag starring role in British Airways advert celebrating 100 years alongside Oscar nominee Olivia Colman and Anthony Joshua
Two deaf schoolgirls from Derby have been plucked from obscurity to rub shoulders with the stars – appearing in an iconic British Airways anniversary advert. Twin sisters Rhianna and Natasha Cullen, 12, who attend Royal School for the Deaf Derby, in Ashbourne Road, appear in the television advert alongside a host of famous faces including […]