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March 24, 2014, 6:31 am

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A HEADTEACHER has paid a heartfelt tribute to a community activist who was instrumental in setting up a school. Paul Mole, chairman of the Lakeside Community Primary School board of governors, was "instrumental" in its creation.Mr Mole, who helped move the school from its original home, Wilmorton Community Primary School, died after a short battle with cancer earlier this month.Mr Mole was born in Allestree Street, Alvaston, before moving to Baker Street where he lived until he...

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Cash for Schools: Does your child's school deserve a slice of...

March 24, 2014, 3:44 am

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TODAY we launch an exciting new way to make a real difference to your children and their primary schools . The Derby Telegraph has linked up with Western Power Distribution (WPD) to present the Cash For Schools project, with £25,000 available to primary schools in Derby and Derbyshire. Readers will have just over two weeks to nominate the school they think most deserves to win a slice of the cash – with a deadline of Thursday, April 10. Nomination forms will be printed daily...

Police urge drivers to hide valuables away from thieves

March 24, 2014, 10:20 am

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Police have urged drivers not to leave valuables on display in their cars. Officers in Mickleover checked 439 vehicles last Thursday. Twenty were found to be insecure and had items on display, including handbags and documents. Crime prevention leaflets were also distributed to residents. PC Laura Robins helped organise the event. She said: "It only takes a few seconds to make sure there are no valuables on display in your car, and that it's properly secured. "We've had several vehicle...

Surely the Queen's not feeling the pinch too?

March 24, 2014, 12:00 am

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THE highest authority in the land, the Queen, commented to geography Professor David Simon, on a visit to Royal Holloway, University of London, that "poverty is being ignored and more could be done to fight it" and "poor people and their problems don't get reported often, and they need all the assistance they can be given."Do you think her fifth cousin, David Cameron, will heed her words? Don't hold your breath!A Commons report in January suggested she was "down to her...

Weather in Derbyshire: What a difference a year makes

March 24, 2014, 2:27 am

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HOW did you feel a year ago today?Stressed, worried and agitated by the constant battering of snow we received could be the answer.This time last year, the white stuff hammered down after the coldest winter since 1962.Businesses were put at risk, transport networks came to a halt and the economy took a beating.Families were left trapped abroad, commuters were stranded at home as drifts blocked roads and farmers threw milk away as Derbyshire suffered the hangover from a weekend of heavy...

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March 24, 2014, 6:36 am

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A 20-YEAR-OLD motorist who died after his car came off the road and hit a lamp post has been named as Alistair Kemp. Police said the motorist, of Sage Drive, in Woodville, was driving a yellow Honda Civic. Paramedics, fire crews and the police were called to the scene, in Burton Road, Woodville, on Saturday at 11.55pm. Tributes were being paid to Mr Kemp on Twitter. One read: "What makes this all even sadder was that he was actually a really decent nice guy. RIP Ali...

Derby: More shops opened and fewer stores closed last year

March 24, 2014, 1:21 am

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DERBY saw more shops open and fewer stores close last year, according to new data.A report compiled for Castle Donington business advisers and accountants PwC by the Local Data Company showed that in 2013, 40 stores opened in Derby, a rise of two on 2012.At the same time, only 28 shops closed last year, compared with 78 the previous year.According to the research, Derby and Northampton, were the only places to see an increase in new stores last year.Eddie Williams, deals director for PwC,...

MP Nigel Mills stages second job fair for constituency

March 25, 2014, 7:00 am

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AMBER Valley MP Nigel Mills is to hold his second jobs fair in the borough.The free-entry event will take place at Ripley Leisure Centre on Friday between 10am and 4pm.Last year's fair was attended by more than 600 people, with 100 finding jobs or training.It will host stalls from a range of employers including Owen Taylor and Son, BPI Recycled Products, Zycomm, Bowmer and Kirkland, Blue Arrow, Birchwood Homecaring Services, TalkStaff, McDonald's, Serendipity Healthcare and Futures Housing...

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March 25, 2014, 8:00 am

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THE family of a mother-of-two who died from a stroke in January are raising money in her memory.Many members of the community were shocked when Sharon Webster – dubbed "The heart-throb of Mackworth" – died.Now her family is planning a sponsored garden party on May 4, a day after what would have been her 42nd birthday.Other plans include walks at Markeaton Park and another from Mackworth to Derby.The events will raise funds for the Stroke Association.Sharon's mother,...

Derbyshire nursery owner browned off as frost leaves 300 plants...

March 25, 2014, 3:00 am

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THE owner of a Derbyshire garden centre said it was "soul-destroying" to discover hundreds of his plants had turned brown because of the frost.Yesterday morning saw temperatures across the county drop to minus two degrees.And Mark Smith, who runs Swarkestone Nursery, said the cold weather had caused between 200 and 300 of his Pieris plants to droop and turn brown.He said: "It's frustrating and soul-destroying."We had worked really hard on the displays."At the weekend...

Workers at Royal Mail's delivery office in Midland Road, Derby,...

March 25, 2014, 7:00 am

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A UNION has warned that plans by Royal Mail to axe 1,600 management roles in a drive to cut costs could spark industrial action. The company said the cuts would mainly fall on head office managerial staff, which means that some workers at Royal Mail's delivery office in Midland Road, Derby, could be in the firing line. Royal Mail said the net effect would be 1,300 job losses, as it planned to create 300 new or enhanced roles. It said the cuts were part of its aim to make cost savings of...

Video: joker Jack Johnson scoops national joke prize

March 25, 2014, 8:51 am

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WHAT do you get when you cross a young comedian from Derby with a national joke telling competition? First prize! Six-year-old Jack Johnson charmed more than 400 pupils at Swanwick Primary School and his joke was voted as the funniest in the school. From there, Jack, along with nine other pupils from different schools across England, was given the chance to present his jokes to a judging panel that included comedian Lee Mack and House of Commons Speaker John Bercow. The competition, called...

Students from Middle East join University of Derby for green...

March 25, 2014, 9:00 am

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STUDENTS from two of the world's driest Arab states travelled 3,000 miles to Derby to share their plans to improve an undeveloped city green space.Ten students and their tutors from architectural courses at Kingdom University in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's University of Dammam made the journey.They worked with University of Derby undergraduates on a project called the 3rd KU Winter Practicum of Architecture and Design, to develop a green space next to Derby's Seven Stars public house.Derby City...

Ofsted back to check on new regime at Al-Madinah School

March 25, 2014, 2:00 am

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A SECOND monitoring visit will take place at Derby's failing faith school over the next two days.Inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education will be at Al-Madinah School to check if there have been any improvements since it was severely criticised and placed in special measures last October.A subsequent monitoring visit in late November showed little or no progress and in some instances the school had slipped back even further.Since the original inspection, Schools Minister Lord Nash...

Public sector cannot afford pension pot for councillors - agree?

March 25, 2014, 1:45 am

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SO Derby city councillor Sarah Russell thinks it is unfair that her pension funded by local taxpayers, is to be abolished ("Scrapping our pensions is a blow to democracy", March 14).I would guess that she has little understanding of the damage inflicted by her Labour friends when Gordon Brown effectively smashed the private sector pension schemes beyond repair, ending any hope of decent pensions come retirement.A recent review claimed that the total loss to date is £150...

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March 25, 2014, 9:24 am

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THE inventor of the first-ever truly automated shop says he is keen to stick to rolling his concept out locally, despite it becoming an international media sensation.Electrical engineer Peter Fox and his "Speedy Shop", which sets out to replace the traditional village stores that have been lost by many of the nation's communities, have made headlines as far afield as New Zealand and South Korea since the story broke last week that the first machine had been installed in Clifton, near ...

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March 25, 2014, 12:30 am

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ACTION by striking teachers tomorrow will fail to close all Derbyshire schools but it is likely to cause widespread disruption.Just under half of the country's teachers are estimated to be members of the National Union of Teachers, which is staging a 24-hour walk out in protest about "excessive" workload and "unfair" pension changes.The union is also anxious to bring Secretary of State Michael Gove to the negotiating table and believes that striking will do this.Schools...

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March 25, 2014, 3:15 am

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HE'S a strange fellow, Billy Davies.At every club which he has managed, he has had success to some degree, with a win-loss games record most would envy.And yet he still finishes up parting company with them.There will be plenty of dry eyes in Derby at the news of his sacking by Nottingham Forest.Naturally there will be some gleeful satisfaction at the Rams' main rivals being in disarray, but it goes a bit deeper than that with Davies.While not overlooking for a second the achievements of Brian...

Derby weather forecaster warns of snow in city

March 25, 2014, 12:00 pm

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DERBY weatherman Martin Harris has warned the city could wake up to snow on Thursday morning. Martin, who runs the weather page Weather Update Derby, said this may be caused by an incoming front from Scandinavia. He said: "Looks like we may wake up to a slight covering of snow Thursday morning, ridge of high pressure from Scandinavia is currently edging towards the UK bringing cooler air over the next few days with a risk of snow Wed night/Thurs morning. "By the weekend the...

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March 25, 2014, 6:45 am

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WHEN Kurdish refugees arrived in sizeable numbers in Derby during the war in Iraq, some of my Kashmiri Muslim friends told me that they were unhappy about this development.I pointed out that Kurds were Muslims like the Kashmiris. One of their concerns was that Kurdish men, most of whom came without female partners from Iraq, would try befriending Kashmiri women. The Kurds tended to be more westernised and liberal-minded and this posed a problem for the Kashmiris.As time passed, the feelings...