Deaf woman Linda Vessey leaves Derby school after 30 years of devotion
A profoundly deaf woman who has spent 30 years teaching at the school she attended as a child has said an emotional goodbye to staff and pupils. Linda Vessey, 64, has retired after spending more than half her life at Royal School for the Deaf Derby as both a pupil and a member of staff. […]
Special needs students from Derby school celebrate national sporting success as countdown to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games begins
Pupils from a Derby special school picked up two gold, two silver and one bronze medal when they competed against 200 young disabled athletes from across the UK in the National Junior Athletics Championships. The students from St Martins Special School, in Alvaston, had already competed alongside 1000 other disabled athletes to win a spot […]
Work to build Rotherham’s Waverley Junior Academy starts with official soil-cutting ceremony
Work to build Rotherham’s newest junior school is now officially underway after a soil-cutting ceremony took place in Waverley. Waverley Junior Academy, which is only the second new school to be built in the borough in the last 25 years, promises to be a state-of-the-art facility which will have an eventual capacity for 420 pupils […]
Lewis Capaldi is latest celebrity to show support for Sheffield youngster as mum appeals for more to join stem cell register to give her son a ‘second chance’ at life
THE family of a Sheffield schoolboy are appealing for more people to join the lifesaving stem cell register which could save the life of their son. Fourteen-year-old Harrison Walch, a pupil at Aston Academy, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in April. He has been receiving intensive chemotherapy at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and is currently […]
Derbyshire families relieve their summertime sadness as they gather to remember loved ones
Around 130 people turned up to remember their loved ones when a Heanor church held a memorial service specially created to help families struggling with summertime grief. The Reverend Lisa Shemilt, associate vicar at St Lawrence Church, in Market Place, led the service to bring people together so that they could remember friends or family […]
Coffin walkers invited to raise a toast to Nottinghamshire’s mourners of yesteryear at annual event in Brinsley
The organisers of an annual Nottinghamshire coffin walk will put the fun into funeral when they stop to raise a toast to the families who used to trek two miles across the countryside to bury their loved ones 150 years ago. The walk, which takes place at 9.30am on Saturday, July 20 will recreate the […]
Prime Minister’s Downing Street office backs Derby teenagers putting the Brake on parking problems
CAMPAIGNING teenagers from a Mickleover school have launched a road safety group which has received endorsement from the Prime Minister’s office. Four pupils from Murray Park School decided to launch the group following a visit from Brake, the national road safety charity, and they are now touring local primary schools giving their own presentation about […]
Derbyshire teenage climbers told to aim high as they embark on their own Everest mission
Six Shirebrook students who have embarked on a mission to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest have received some timely advice – from a climber who has summited the world’s tallest mountain for real. The teenagers, from Shirebrook Academy, are midway through a plan to conquer 11 peaks across Britain in order to achieve an […]
Derby youngster’s star appeal helps other children with disabilities enjoy well-earned holiday
A deaf and blind schoolgirl has appeared in a national charity’s marketing campaign helping to raise almost £200,000 to send children with complex disabilities on holiday. Eleven-year-old Teegan Carpenter, who attends Royal School for the Deaf Derby, has no peripheral vision and is profoundly deaf. She also has global developmental delay, cerebral palsy and hip […]
Lubrizol volunteers cook up a storm in Derbyshire at monthly YMCA Community Meal event
VOLUNTEERS from a Derbyshire company swapped their lab coats and clipboards for aprons and serving spoons when they cooked up lunches for the community. Staff from Lubrizol, in Hazelwood, took part in the YMCA Derbyshire Community Meal, which, in collaboration with local mental health charity Head High, invites local businesses to provide a nourishing meal […]