Firefighters called to blaze in Mickleover
Firefighters were called to a shed fire in Mickleover last night. The incident happened on Gisborne Close at 8.25pm where crews found the shed "well alight". A spokesman for Derbyshire Fire and Rescue...
View ArticleMobile speed camera locations for Derby and Derbyshire for week commencing...
HEADING out on a journey in Derbyshire this week? Mobile speed cameras will be in force along the following routes from Monday, July 14 to Sunday, July 20: - A511 Hatton - A609 Stanley Common - A617...
View ArticleDrive-in movie plan for top floor of car park in Derby city centre
DERBY'S Intu shopping centre has revealed plans to show a drive-in movie on the top floor of its car park.It announced the news on its Facebook page and is now appealing for people to choose the first...
View ArticleDad's anger at £5 voucher for cereal bug
A FATHER of young twins has described a £5 gift card sent to him by a superstore when he found a bug in a box of cereal as "a slap in the face".Liam McDermott was shocked to discover the insect walking...
View ArticleChampionship transfer talk: Former Newcastle, Aston Villa, Fulham and QPR...
FORMER Newcastle, Aston Villa and Fulham defender Aaron Hughes has joined Brighton & Hove Albion.The Northern Ireland international has signed a one-year deal with the Seagulls following his...
View ArticleTwo Wills find the way to hold up Derbyshire CCC at Cheltenham
FIFTH-wicket pair Will Tavare and Will Gidman held up Derbyshire and edged the first day of their LV County Championship match towards Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College. Gloucestershire finished...
View ArticleDerbyshire CCC tormented by Will Tavare at Cheltenham
SOMEHOW, you just knew Will Tavare was heading for a big score from the beginning of Derbyshire's LV County Championship match against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College.It wasn't just because the...
View ArticleDerbyshire CCC's Tony Palladino impressed by Tom Taylor's stamina on first...
TOM Taylor took another step forward in his maturity as a first-team seam bowler at the start of Derbyshire's LV County Championship match at Cheltenham.After taking three wickets in the first innings...
View ArticleBurton Albion fans set to get first look at new signings in friendly at Ilkeston
FANS will get their first glimpse of Burton Albion's new faces tonight – and Gary Rowett says all four are eager to pull on the yellow and black for the first time.George Taft, John Mousinho, Lucas...
View ArticleAthletics: Wonder throw that won English Schools gold for Etwall's Rebekah...
"EIGHTEEN months ago, all she was throwing was a ball for her dog!" says Rebekah Walton's coach, Barry Hawksworth, of the new English Schools junior girls' javelin champion.But 18 months ago, John Port...
View ArticleCricket: Dan Wheeldon stars as Sandiacre reach last eight in National
CAPTAIN Dan Wheeldon was man of the match as Sandiacre Town reached the last eight of the ECB National Club Championship.Wheeldon took 4-33 and made 39 not out as they won by five wickets away to...
View ArticleCricket: Keiran Preston's fourth ton of the season wins weekly award again
KEIRAN Preston took his season's aggregate to 807 runs from 10 innings as he won the County League's batsman of the week prize for the second time on Saturday, scoring 146 for Mickleover in their...
View ArticleCricket: Ockbrook, Sandiacre take maximums to stay out in front in title chase
THE top two were unmoved as both Ockbrook & Borrowash and Sandiacre Town took maximum points in the Beechdale Mazda Derbyshire Premier League title race.And that was bad news for champions...
View ArticleCricket: Promotion battle hots up as Quarndon and Duffield make ground
ECKINGTON continued their march back towards the Premier League with an eighth Division One win in nine matches.But the battle behind them is hotting up after Duffield got themselves back in the mix...
View ArticleCricket: Ticknall out of luck as rivals pull out, costing them 54 points
NOT too many clubs will complete a 27-point win and find that they have dropped from top to fourth in their division when the tables are published.But that is the unfortunate fate that befell...
View ArticleChellaston wedding followed by party at Waterfall Inn, Derby
Victoria Humber and Antony Rudd, of Hathersage Avenue, Derby, were married at St Peter's Church in Chellaston, followed by a party at the Waterfall Inn.Picture: Field Photographic of Heanor
View ArticleWho's been in the courts?
RICHARD Higham-Thompson, 39, of Medina Close, Alvaston, had his licence endorsed with six penalty points, was fined £623 and ordered to pay £35 costs and a £62 victim surcharge for failing to give...
View ArticleDerby's idle wind turbines 'a waste and a flop'
RESIDENTS in Spondon are ''appalled'' because two controversial wind turbines are still not producing energy regularly.The 130-metre structures, in Megaloughton Lane, are not working because of issues...
View ArticleDerby County club captain Shaun Barker confident Rams can bounce back stronger
DERBY County's players have the character to bounce back from their Wembley woe, says club captain Shaun Barker.The Rams were denied promotion to the Premier League last term when they suffered a...
View ArticleDerby's Gogglebox family win fame without stirring from their sofa
SID Siddiqui has had to get used to strange women running up to him in the street and asking for "selfies".And son Umar thinks nothing of walking into bars and getting a round of applause.He and his...
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