SOME people may welcome the lighter nights but, for the likes of Glyn Smoothy, the advent of British Summer Time is a real wind-up.

That's because when the clocks go forward by an hour this weekend, the director of Watts 1858 Jewellers, in Cornmarket, Derby, has to update his stock of luxury watches to make sure they all show the correct time.

On Sunday, the clocks will change at 1am and all this week Mr Smoothy has been setting his watches to automatically switch to BST.

It is a job that any timepiece fan would envy as Watts, Derby's oldest independent jeweller, stocks some of the most expensive watches in the city, makes such as Bremont, worth many thousands of pounds.

The handy phrase he has to remember is "spring forward, fall backward."

But be warned – a 2012 study by the University of Alabama found that the risk of a heart attack increases by 10 per cent on the Monday and Tuesday after the clocks go forward.

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Erin Harris was all smiles after winning a Derby City Council competition to draw an inspirational woman. Erin, 2, entered the competition with a picture of her mum, Anna Harris, 29, at the Alvaston Children's Centre. Erin got to go along to Build-a-Bear, at Derby's Westfield centre where she chose to make a My Little Pony toy and had her drawing framed.

Possibly the most influential figure in British sport is a former head girl of Long Eaton Grammar who used to love a game of footie. We talk to Baroness Sue Campbell.

THE plaque in her office says it all, really. "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History". With a rueful grin, Baroness Sue Campbell, a former head girl at Long Eaton Grammar School, remarks: "You can read those words in any way you want!"

Susan Campbell, who until a few months ago was chairman of UK Sport – the re-named Sports Council of Great Britain – is the woman credited with masterminding Team GB's record haul of medals at the London 2012 Olympics.

She also runs the Youth Sport Trust, an independent charity working tirelessly to encourage children to take part in sport. She has an office and a loyal team within the campus of Loughborough University's Sport Park.

It was, in fact, those staff members who gave her the infamous plaque for her office. It was all tongue in cheek, of course, because they know Sue has a great sense of humour.

"They presented me with it because they're aware I get into the odd scrape with politicians," she laughs.

An extremely lithe and fit-looking 64, Baroness Campbell CBE is a former PE teacher who presided over Team GB and Paralympic GB at London 2012 and devised the strategy behind the British athletes' spectacular successes.

What's more, she was named as one of the UK's 100 most powerful women by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and has also been awarded ten honorary doctorates from universities in this country and overseas.

In the House of Lords she sits as a cross-bench peer and is officially addressed as Lady Campbell. But when I meet her at the Youth Sport Trust offices, she quickly lays down her ground rules on etiquette: "Please just call me Sue."

For this highly respected sporting administrator is a no-nonsense woman from Chilwell, near Long Eaton, who as a child loved climbing trees, rollerskating and playing "footie" in the streets with her pals after school.

She says: "I was a sporty child who played outdoors all the time. My mum ran a hairdressing salon in Long Eaton Market Place called Pat Attewell, and she loved the outdoors too, especially horse riding. My dad was also sporty and I remember playing football and cricket with him in our back garden."

Sue is wearing a tracksuit rather than a power suit when I meet her at her workplace. A former international athlete, she has been a non-political adviser to the Government on sport and for many years has urged politicians to do more to improve sport and PE provision in our schools.

She explains: "In the Lords I'm not aligned to any political party. But I am political in the sense that I've worked with three governments and ten different Secretaries of State for education, health and sport.

"Generally I've got on extremely well with politicians of different hues, but sometimes stubbornly fighting for what I believe to be right has brought me into conflict with them.

"I was asked at a conference recently which quality I set the greatest store by and my reply was integrity. My interpretation of integrity is doing what is right, not what is popular or expedient."

In 2003, Sue was invited by Tessa Jowell, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to become reform chairman of UK Sport, the body responsible for Olympic and Paralympic sport in Great Britain.

She accepted and became part of the team that went to Singapore two years later to win the 2012 Olympic Games for London.

She says: "I worked with them to develop a new investment strategy and create a world-class culture and environment, which resulted in our successes at Beijing and London. Of course, you don't do these things alone. I provided the leadership but was lucky to gather the best team possible around me.

"My philosophy is that if you get the right people on the bus, provide the leadership and stick firmly to the same principled strategy, you can get incredible results. We didn't allow ourselves to be pushed off course.

"The dream was to support our athletes and for our performance system to be among the best in the world. To see that actually happen was deeply satisfying and immensely inspiring.

''There were times when I watched the medals coming in and had an incredible sense of the dream becoming a reality. I can't describe it in any other way.

"Lord Coe promised that if London was given the Games we would use it to inspire a generation of young people to choose to take part in sport – and I think we did inspire young people enormously.

"Now I'd like to see a ten-year investment strategy in sport in this country to embed physical education into all young people's lives. This is what I'm battling for."

Sue was head girl at Long Eaton Grammar in 1966-67, then went on to train as a PE teacher at Bedford College of Physical Education. Subsequently she taught PE for two years at a girls' comprehensive in Manchester.

Meanwhile, she was always competing in her beloved athletics. "I was in the England under-21 netball team and in 1966 competed at the All England Schools Athletics' Championship. I also represented English schools in Canada at discus."

For a time she represented Derbyshire at netball, athletics and hockey, as well as playing for Ripley Hockey Club.

She also belonged to Derby Ladies' Athletic Club in Spondon. "They were a great group of people and I vividly recall training with them while having to put up with the infamous 'Celanese smell', which used to pervade the atmosphere then! It was a wonderful time.

"I remember it with a big smile on my face. It was all running, jumping, hurdling and throwing the discus, javelin and the shot. I was always more of an all-rounder than a specialist."

After her time as a PE teacher she gained a Master of Education degree at the University of Leicester and moved into university lecturing in sport.

Later she took up a post as a regional officer for the East Midlands Sports Council, then became chief executive of the National Coaching Foundation in Leeds. In 2008 she was appointed to the House of Lords as an independent and it was only a few months ago that she stepped down from her role as chairman of UK Sport after a decade in the job.

Sue continues to passionately believe that sport should be taken as seriously as reading, writing and maths in our primary schools. As chairman of the Youth Sport Trust, she is focused on encouraging more high-quality PE and sport provision for children of all abilities in primaries.

She says; "I visited Lea Green Activity Centre, near Matlock, to talk to primary school heads. I'm trying to encourage them to spend extra Government funding they're being given for sport on specialist PE training for primary teachers. I believe that if PE is taught well it can have a huge impact on kids' self-esteem and behaviour.

"Giving kids an early understanding of a healthy, active lifestyle is important. It will help them have fun in life and keep them safe from challenging issues like drugs, alcohol and smoking."

She is troubled by the increase in obesity among less active children and adds: "Many kids come home from school nowadays and sit straight down in front of a computer, which has created a sedentary population."

Baroness Sue Campbell today lives in the village of Woodhouse Eaves, near Loughborough.

STEVEN Barry Cox, 53, of Derby Road, Spondon, was fined £600 with £60 victim surcharge and told to pay £85 costs for failing to give information after an accident on September 29. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

SINEAD Edwards, 25, of Church Street, Ilkeston, was fined £130 with £20 victim surcharge and told to pay £35 costs for driving without due care and attention on December 7. Her licence was endorsed with five penalty points.

ALISON Evans, 48, of Station Road, Mickleover, was fined £200 with £20 victim surcharge and told to pay £85 costs for speeding on August 21. Her licence was endorsed with three penalty points.

ALEX Edward J Furness, 34, of Cromford Road, Chaddesden, was fined £600, with £60 victim surcharge and told to pay £85 costs for driving with no insurance on or before September 24. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

JASON Paul Howard, 24, of Crown Hill Way, Stanley Common, was fined £160, with £20 victim surcharge and told to pay £35 costs, for speeding on September 17. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

SANDEEP Singh Javanda, 23, of Sinclair Close, Sinfin, was fined £100 with £20 victim surcharge and told to pay £35 costs for driving with no insurance on September 22. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

ROBERT Thompson, 30, of Hall Street, Alvaston, was given a nine-month conditional discharge and told to pay £15 victim surcharge and £620 costs for possessing cocaine on July 20.

DANIEL Brooks, 21, of Holts Lane, Tutbury, was fined £110, ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and costs of £35 and had his licence endorsed with six points for driving with no insurance on December 6 in Hatton.

SIAN Clarke, 20, of Cygnet Hospital, City Gate, Derby, was discharged conditionally for 12 months for each of five counts of assault on five different victims.

GEMMA Louise Lee, 19, of Hardhurst Road, Alvaston, was fined £75 and told to pay £50 compensation, a £20 surcharge and £85 costs for damaging a door at Jericho House on February 13.

NABDEEP Singh, 19, of Vincent Street, Derby, was fined £110 with a £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs and was disqualified from driving for 14 months for driving without due care and attention and driving while under the influence of drugs on December 16.

ABDUL Samad, 25, of Clarence Road, Derby, was fined £75 for possessing cannabis on December 23. He was also fined £148, with a £20 victim surcharge with costs of £150, and had eight points put on his licence for driving without insurance and failing to comply with a traffic signal on December 23.

ANTHONY Patterson, 29, of Tennessee Road, Chaddesden, was given a community order to carry out 70 hours of unpaid work and made to pay a £60 victim surcharge with £70 costs for stealing a bottle of wine on February 25. He was given a concurrent community order to carry out 70 hours of unpaid work for stealing four bike locks on February 25.

MARK Donald Finlayson, 27, of Marlborough Road, Derby, was given a 12-month community order, made to pay a £60 victim surcharge with £85 costs for possessing the class B drug mephedrone, driving with the incorrect licence and driving without insurance on December 19. He was banned from driving for six months.

KEELY Thompson, 20, of Booth Street, Alvaston, was given a 12-month community order, made to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £85 costs for stealing clothes worth £598.80.

JAMES Coates, 32, of Harper Avenue, Burton, was fined £600, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60, costs of £85 and had his licence endorsed with six penalty points for driving a car on September 24 with no insurance.

JOANNE Feasey, of Coton Park, Linton, Swadlincote, was fined £600, with £60 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for driving with no insurance on April 30. Her licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

ANGELIKA Baumann Dobson Smith, 51, of Pear Tree Crescent, Derby, was fined £351, with £35 victim surcharge, and told to pay £35 costs, for driving with no insurance on September 12. Her licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

RYAN James Moloney, 25, of Raleigh Close, Ilkeston, was fined £420, with £42 victim surcharge, and told to pay £35 costs, for driving with no insurance on August 2. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

SAMUEL Moss, 58, of The Gardens, Loscoe, was fined £110, with £20 victim surcharge, and told to pay £35 costs, for driving with no insurance on September 13. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

OLIVER Joel Buxton, 27, of Brigden Avenue, Allenton, was fined £110, with £20 victim surcharge, and told to pay £35 costs, for driving without insurance on June 14. His licence was endorsed with eight penalty points.

KHABER Atique Zarif, 21, of Osmaston Park Road, Derby, was fined £110, with £20 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for driving without insurance on November 30. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

BASHARAT Hussain, 38, of High Bank Road, Burton-on-Trent, was fined £865, with £87 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for drink driving on January 22. He was disqualified from driving for 16 months.

SALLY Thomas, 48, of Field View, Woodville, was fined £265, with £27 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for drink driving on October 23. She was disqualified from driving for 17 months.

HELEN Shaw, 48, of Boweswell Road, Ilkeston, was fined £250, with £25 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for drink driving on November 15. She was disqualified from driving for 12 months.

SIMON Andrew Banjanin, 25, of Allestree Street, Alvaston, was given a community order, with £60 victim surcharge, and told to pay £85 costs, for driving while disqualified on November 4. His licence was endorsed with six penalty points.

AN expedition retracing the steps of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic attempt to cross Antarctica will be undertaken with modern kit produced in Alfreton.

Terra Nova Equipment will be providing tents, clothing and accessories for the Imperial Trans Antarctic Centenary Expedition due to set off later this year.

The idea is to follow Shackleton's original plan to cross the Antarctic via the South Pole, marking the 100th anniversary of the epic journey.

The 1,500-mile route has never been attempted since Shackleton's ship Endurance was crushed by sea ice, forcing all on board to brave the merciless cold and gigantic waves of the South Atlantic to reach safety.

Terra Nova marketing director Carolyn Budding said: "We are delighted to be supporting this exciting British expedition which marks such an historic event in Polar exploration.

"With the prospect of facing severe conditions, the team approached Terra Nova and have selected Terra Firma and Hyperspace tents and extremities clothing accessories to protect them."

Stewart Stirling, team leader for the expedition, said: "I am fully confident that the kit will perform well during the expedition."

The Imperial Trans Antarctic Centenary Expedition will depart in November and is expected to take around 85 days.

AN angry motorist drove at a man and almost hit him after they argued in a car park.

Paul Bonser admitted driving his car towards Robert Clarke but claimed it was in an attempt to scare him, rather than hit him.

Mr Clarke jumped out of the way and avoided being struck by the front of Bonser's vehicle, Derby Crown Court heard.

Recorder Nicholas Syfret QC said 52-year-old Bonser's driving had been "close to using the car as a weapon".

He said: "He was not struck by your car but there was some contact. The avoidance of contact was down to Mr Clarke, not avoidance action taken by you.

"It was an attempt to scare. Nevertheless, driving a car in such a way is dangerous."

Bonser, of Dryden Street, Sinfin, was banned from driving for 16 months and told he must take an extended retest before he could drive again.

The incident happened in August last year at a car park between Co-op and Jet garage in Burton Road, Littleover.

Derby Crown Court heard that Bonser was waiting in his car for his wife when he saw Mr Clarke and his partner. There had been an ongoing dispute between the two couples.

CCTV footage showed Bonser leaving the car park, before performing a U-turn and driving directly towards Mr Clarke. Bonser pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.

Kevin Waddingham, in mitigation, said: "It was a chance meeting between the two couples, who were at odds. There were various exchanges, and Mr Bonser remained in his car but, during the argument, he lost his cool.

"This behaviour is very much out of character for this 52-year-old man.

"This is a man who is usually inclined to walk away from trouble. He presents himself as somebody who is quietly spoken and quite reserved. This is a man who is long-term unemployed but wishes, within the confinements of his health, to work if he can."

Recorder Mr Syfret gave Bonser an 18-month community order, with supervision, and told him he must attend an education, training and employment course to help him get back into work.

Bonser was told he risked a five-year custodial sentence if he was found to be in breach of his driving ban.

Members of the Tom Carey Fund panel visited Becket Primary School in Stockbrook Street, Derby, to see progress on a new outdoor space planned for the school. The trust fund was set up by late businessman Tom Carey, a former pupil of Firs Estate Primary School in Derby, to support projects in the Abbey Ward of the city. The latest phase of the project at Becket is to build a robot the children have named Tombot. Pictured from left are Maggie Purcell, eight, Tim Carey (son of Tom), Frazer Johnston, artist and creator of Tombot, Councillor Ajit Atwal and Kyle Mayne, ten. Left, playing on the Tombot are Kyle Mayne, ten, and Maggie Purcell, eight.

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A DERBY-BORN philosopher who was the first to use the phrase "survival of the fittest" will be honoured with a blue plaque on a pub in the city.

Herbert Spencer, a biologist and anthropologist who also invented the precursor to the modern paper clip, will have a blue plaque placed on the Exeter Arms, in Exeter Street.

Spencer, who died in 1903 at the age of 83, was born on Exeter Street. He was a prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era and developed an all-embracing concept of evolution, writing about the subject even before Charles Darwin did.

He also contributed to a wide range of topics including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, biology, sociology, and psychology.

During his lifetime he achieved significant recognition as a philosopher and was second only in terms of prominence to Bertrand Russell.

Spencer is best known for coining the expression "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and is already commemorated by a plaque, among other famous Derby folk, on Exeter Bridge which was installed in 1931.

Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society have formed a partnership to start erecting blue plaques to celebrate famous people who have strong links with the city.

The plaques are put on a building or a site to mark the connection between that location and a famous person or event.

The council and Derby Civic Society asked local people to suggest who could be honoured with a Blue Plaque in the city and received a number of suggestions.

The criteria was that they needed to recognise people who had been dead for at least 20 years, had a long-lasting effect, have wide public support and had a clear link to a building or site in Derby.

This will be the tenth plaque which the council and the Civic Society have erected through the scheme.

It will be officially unveiled on Tuesday, April 8, at 11.15am at the Exeter Arms by Councillor Asaf Afzal, Derby City Council's cabinet member for planning, environment and public protection, and Alan Grimadell, chairman of the Derby Civic Society.

Also in attendance will be Martin Roper, owner of the Exeter Arms.

Mr Roper said: "I'm often stopped in my tracks when I see a blue plaque on a building in London, as I want to know who lived there. So it's fantastic that the blue plaque scheme has come to Derby and we're getting a plaque at the Exeter Arms – they're such a nationally recognised emblem.

"The pub is steeped in history and we're already proud to be associated with Herbert Spencer – our outside bar is named after him.

"When we discovered one of the old Exeter Street cottages at the back of the pub, we did think to ourselves: could Spencer have once stood where we're standing now?"

Mr Grimadell said: "Herbert Spencer was a prolific writer who was offered honours and awards all over Europe and North America.

"He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the 1870s he had become the most famous philosopher of the age.

"Born in Exeter Street, Derby, in 1820, he died in Brighton in 1903 and is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.

"It's right that we should honour him in this way."