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MARTIN NAYLOR: Reflecting on the part smaller grounds play in the national game
DURING last weekend's break in the domestic football season I found myself standing on the terraces, alongside my father, at the 1,000-capacity Lancer Scott Stadium.Home of Ashton and Backwell United,...
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DERBY COUNTY: Rams best in Championship, says Reading boss Nigel Adkins
READING boss Nigel Adkins says Derby County are the best side in the Championship and has tipped them to win automatic promotion this season.Rams take on Adkins' Reading at the Madejski Stadium this...
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JACK O'CONNELL: Film star asked for his '71' character to be from Derby, not...
WHEN movie star Jack O'Connell heard his next character was from Leeds, he was quick to ask for a re-write.That is because there are two cities the Derby County fan is reluctant to portray people...
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PERVERT SENTENCED: 'Disgusting' Derby flasher spared jail
A "DISGUSTING" flasher from Derby has been spared a spell in prison so that he can get help for his offending. Alex Ormston cycled alongside his latest victim as she jogged between Chaddesden and the...
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RESTAURANT CLOSURE: Jimmy's World Grill and Bar in Derby shuts down
A DERBY restaurant which opened less than three years ago has shut.Jimmy's World Grill and Bar, at the city's Riverlights development, has closed down.The company, which has restaurants across the UK,...
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MUM'S FEARS: Cancer sufferer writing cards for her children's future...
Mother-of-two Anna Beresford has written birthday cards for her daughters to open as they grow up in case she loses her cancer fight. The 32-year-old has created a memory box as she is determined to...
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NEPAL BLIZZARD: Derbyshire mountaineer Nigel Vardy climbing close to area...
The family of Derbyshire mountaineer Nigel Vardy are waiting to make contact with him after a severe blizzard hit a mountain range close to where he is climbing. Mr Vardy - known as Mr Frostbite - left...
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FOOTBALL SHAKE-UP: Derby County fans says there's no need for urgent change...
A PLEDGE from Labour to give football fans greater say in the running of clubs has received a sceptical reception from the chairman of Burton Albion.And the chairwoman of Derby County Supporters' Club,...
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HOUSE FIRE: Man in hospital after blaze in Ripley home
A MAN was taken to hospital after a blaze in a Ripley home. Firefighters were called to the house in Warmwells Lane at 10.40pm yesterday. They took about 15 minutes to extinguish the blaze which...
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CHARITY TREKKER SAFE: Duffield man on charity hike suffers storms nightmare...
A TREKKER from Duffield who was taking on a 200-mile charity hike in Nepal is safe, despite storms in the area that have killed 32. But John Holmes and his group had to take shelter from the weather...
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Stabbing of schoolboy on his way home 'utterly cowardly'
A JUDGE has branded a violent attack on a teenage boy in which he was stabbed twice as he walked home from a Derby school as "utterly cowardly".Judge John Burgess spoke as he sentenced one of a group...
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UNBROKEN: Watch the incredible trailer to Jack O'Connell's new film directed...
The latest trailer for Jack O'Connell's new film Unbroken has been released. The movie, directed by Angelina Jolie, tells the incredible rue story of Olympic runner and Japanese POW Louis Zamperini....
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RAMS DRONE: Flight over iPro Stadium probed by air officials
AVIATION officials are investigating an incident at the iPro Stadium in which a drone flew over the crowd and took a video of the game. The Civil Aviation Authority said the incident, along with four...
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SQUIRREL ATTACK: Derbyshire man becomes internet hit after saving baby squirrel
An Alfreton animal lover has become the talk of the internet after saving a baby squirrel. William Benton rescued the infant after it was attacked by his dog. He can be seen in the video nursing the...
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LIVE: Reading v Derby County
JOIN us for live match coverage of Derby County's Championship clash with Reading on Saturday. We'll have all the build-up from the Madejski Stadium and minute-by-minute updates from the game in our...
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PUB DISPUTE: Landlady Claire Muldoon leaves the Pattenmakers Arms in Duffield...
A NEW row has erupted between a Derbyshire publican and pub company Enterprise Inns.Claire Muldoon, who this year won a high-profile battle to keep the Pattenmakers Arms, is walking away from the...
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UGANDA MISSION: Littleover Community School pupils record trip of a lifetime
A GROUP of 20 students and four teachers from Littleover Community School have been on a life-changing 12-day trip to Child Africa School, Kabale, in Uganda. While they were there, the students kept a...
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NAMED AND SHAMED: Convicted of having no TV licence
THE following people have all been convicted of watching television without a licence:SONIA Chamowskyj, 35, of St Norbert Drive, Ilkeston, was fined £200, ordered to pay £120 costs and a £20 victim...
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EBOLA: Five outrageous myths about the virus
AS health officials around the world scramble to get hospitals ready for any potential Ebola outbreak, there's no doubt it's a serious matter. But the nature of the epidemic has often been...
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BEERHUNTER: Colston Crawford at the Chip & Pin, a pub in a former HSBC bank
HERE'S a pub where you peruse the blackboard menu, take a seat and the staff bring the beer to you.There's no bar, as such, at the Chip & Pin, the nicely-named new micropub that is up and running...
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