KNIFEPOINT RAID: A SHOPKEEPER said he feared for his life when he was robbed at knifepoint by two men.
Yash Shah had £850 worth of belongings taken after he left his Chellaston shop to catch a bus home at 10pm on Saturday.
He said: "He had the knife in his hand and it was very traumatic. I didn't want to die.
"It's really shaken me up because I always think about what could have happened."
CAR CRASHES INTO FLAT: TWO women who woke to a loud bang and their bed shaking believed there had been an earthquake.
But what had woken Rachael Kerwood and her partner, Sadie Waddell, was a car crashing into the wall of their flat, which is on the corner of Newdigate Street and Balaclava Road, Pear Tree.
Rachael, 27, said: "Our bed is about 2ft away from where the car hit the wall. It was horrific. We're both really shaken up. But it could have been a lot worse for everybody, so we do feel really lucky."
BLACK FRIDAY FEVER: THOUSANDS of shoppers took to the streets of Derby at the weekend to capitalise on offers in the high street.
Black Friday and Black Saturday were a huge success for retailers, including Derby company Lee Longlands which saw a 100% surge in profits compared to the previous weekend.
Darren Varney, regional manager, said: "The fever of the sales has been brilliant."
REVELLER IMPALED ON SPIKE: A REVELLER who became impaled on a spike for almost two hours after he slipped is lucky to be alive, said a fire chief.
The tip of the metal fence post went straight through the 24-year-old man's foot and he became trapped at Blacksmith's Yard, off Sadler Gate, Derby.
It was half an hour before he was found by a police officer and almost another 90 minutes before he was freed and taken to hospital.
RAT DROPPINGS AT TAKEAWAY: MOULDY food stored in the fridge, rat droppings and an accumulation of dirt and grease were some of the issues that led hygiene inspectors to deem a Normanton takeaway "woefully unsatisfactory".
Balvir Singh, the owner of Indian Spicy Foods, who pleaded guilty to breaching food and hygiene regulations, has now been fined £1,450 and ordered to pay £1,500 costs.
Inspectors found problems during visits in March and June. A subsequent inspection in September found that improvements had been made.
BID TO RESTORE HISTORIC BRIDGE: A BID for up to £900,000 in lottery money to revamp Derby's historic Friar Gate Bridge, which could see it become a footbridge, is to be made by the city council .
If the bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund is successful, the cash could mean that the bridge, described as in "a disgraceful state" by the city's civic society, could get a full repainting job and structural work.
Friar Gate bridge, built by Andrew Handyside & Co, was part of the western extension of the Great Northern Railway and opened in 1878.
RING MISSING : POLICE are investigating how a treasured gold wedding ring went missing from a patient at the Royal Derby Hospital.
Lesley Cox was wearing her late mother's ring worth £500 when she underwent sedation during treatment.
The 58-year-old, of Alvaston, said it was only when her partner visited the next day that they noticed the 18-carat gold ring was missing.
The hospital is co-operating with the police inquiry.
DARE WARNING: CHILDREN and parents are being warned about the dangers of dares that have landed one teenage girl in accident and emergency with a severe burn.
The deputy head teacher of Littleover Community School, Jon Wilding, has issued the warning after an increase in the number of children being injured taking part in challenges that left one girl needing to attend hospital.
The teenager's injuries, which were the most serious seen by the school, were caused by spraying an aerosol on to exposed skin for a prolonged period of time.
A&E PATIENT RECORD: THE number of people visiting Derby's accident and emergency department reached its highest level for a day in city hospital history.
Bosses at the Royal Derby Hospital said an unprecedented 446 patients turned up at the department for treatment on Sunday – beating the previous record of 438 on a day in March.
They said medics in A&E were used to seeing about 350 to 360 a day. Mystery surrounds the sudden increase but the department has generally seen a 5% increase in patients over the past 12 months.
BUDGET CUTS: HUNDREDS of jobs will go, Derby's Museums Trust will take a hit and the team that deals with night-time noise complaints will be cut, if the city council's latest budget goes ahead as planned.
The proposal is for the year to April 2016 and also includes plans to only "proactively" fix roads, and reduce the authority's pest control service by two thirds.
The budget also incorporates plans to close Moorways Leisure Centre and swimming pool in April, with a 50-metre pool planned for part of the site instead.
The changes come as the authority looks to save £22 million in the 2015-16 financial year in the face of an £18 million cut to its revenue grant from the Government, inflation, and other pressures like new duties for looking after carers.
MARKET BOOST: DERBY Market Hall will open every Sunday up to Christmas and customers will be able to taste some of the delicious foods that are on offer from traders.
Building work on the Guildhall entrance, as well as a compound for vehicles working on the nearby Shot Tower, have led to difficulties for traders in recent weeks.
But the Christmas opening times are aimed at showing exactly what the market traders have to offer.
TRIBUTES TO CRAFT-MAD OLIVE: THE funeral of one of Derby's most colourful and fun-loving characters will be a bright and jolly affair, according to her family.
Olive May, who has died after a long illness, aged 79, was well known for her love of the Royal Family, Blue Peter and flowers.
A florist for more than 50 years in Derby, Mrs May's coffin will be covered in flowers and the hearse will be decorated with coloured ribbons.
Sister Doreen Lake said: "Olive was craft-mad. She took every opportunity to create floral tributes, collages and decorations. She was always making tiaras and crowns."
HOME RULE FOR DERBYSHIRE? Derbyshire's 10 councils are set to join forces to unlock hundreds of millions of pounds from Westminster.
The collaboration will be the first of its kind in the UK and lead to the county winning control over services like buses and roads. County council leader Anne Western hailed the historic development and said the county's long-term potential was now "absolutely staggering"
SANTA AND SNOWBALLS IN LAPLAND: JUST 24 hours after having treatment for leukaemia, four-year-old Amelia Bamford, from Willington, had a huge smile on her face as she threw snowballs at her dad in Lapland's Enchanted Forest.
On Thursday she was taken to Lapland for the day with When You Wish Upon a Star, a charity which grants wishes for poorly children.
Despite a 4am start at East Midlands Airport, Amelia could not stop smiling as she played in the snow.
Her dad, Anthony, who joined Amelia on the trip, said: "Amelia was absolutely over the moon when we told her she was going to Lapland."
BATTLE TO SAVE POOL: THE head coach of a top swimming club that uses Derby's Moorways swimming pool says it will "battle all the way" against its proposed closure.
Derby City Council confirmed on Thursday that it would close the leisure centre part of Moorways in April. Its budget for the year from April 1 also includes closing the swimming pool and then, somewhere on the site, building a new 50-metre pool.
Derventio eXcel head coach Andi Manley said the decision to close the pool next year could put the future of performance swimming in the county in jeopardy.
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