Recently added articles from Derby Evening Telegraph:
Village hall will get new windows
Oct 06, 2008 ... Darley Abbey Village Hall will be fitted with 11 new windows. Derby City Council, which gave planning permission, said thesteel windows needed ...
A special Wembley service for fans
Oct 06, 2008 ... Football fans can use a special coach service from Derby toWembley on Saturday. National Express will run an extra service for supporters headingto the ...
Full steam ahead for train club's special celebrations
Oct 06, 2008; CHRIS JONES ... A Railway club is celebrating 100 years at the heart of the trainindustry with two major events. Derby Railway Engineering Society was founded in 1908 as a freeforum for anyone working in railways, from bosses to labourers, tomeet and share ideas and opinions. Now, a century ...
Recent cases dealt with by southern Derbyshire magistrates
Oct 06, 2008 ... Mark SWANN, 27, of Smedley Avenue, Ilkeston, given a 12-monthconditional discharge and told to pay pounds150 compensation andpounds60 costs for criminal damage on June 21. Johnel BIRRING, 32, of Inveraray Close, Sinfin, fined pounds100,disqualified for 20 months and ordered to ...
The convenience of a cafe in quad
Oct 06, 2008 ... Having read the comments about the toilet closures, particularlyin the town centre, I congratulate the city council on opening theQuad in the same week as the announcements were made. As there is a cafe within the public building, there is a toiletfacility situated in the Market ...
Job just a waste
Oct 06, 2008 ... I Read in the Evening Telegraph, September 27, that the citycouncil wants to waste pounds104,000 on a ...
Toilets needed - not a big screen
Oct 06, 2008 ... I Think the proposed closure of several public toilets in thecentre of Derby is outrageous. Although I myself will be put to considerable inconvenience bythe closures, I feel sorry for the elderly, the infirm and thosewho need a toilet urgently due to a bladder or bowel ...
Area is lovely but not neighbours
Oct 06, 2008 ... I'm a PGCE student at the University of Derby, training to be aprimary school teacher. I travel to Derby from Chesterfield every day, which takesover an hour, and have been parking on Lanscombe Park Road. It is a lovely area but, unfortunately, it seems some ...
Potty toilet idea is a council ruse
Oct 06, 2008 ... I Presume the use of the "gold cards" by over-60s is costing thecouncil more than anticipated. The proposal to close public toilets in Derby is surely a ruse bythe authority to curtail the ...
Amina malih ; Irony tinges Amina's plea for reason and understanding to those Britons who would tell a practising Muslim that he or she should go back to the place they came from.
Oct 06, 2008 ... Irony tinges Amina's plea for reason and understanding to thoseBritons who would tell a practising Muslim that he or she should goback to the place they came from. Having read the article about Mohammed Ahmed suing Tesco forreligious discrimination (Evening Telegraph, September ...
Waste plant is a load of rubbish
Oct 06, 2008 ... So the city and county councils are to waste more money by tryingto persuade us we need an incinerator - which they have carefullyre-named a "waste treatment plant" (Evening Telegraph, September27). This is despite the fact the Government's Waste Strategy statesthat if recycling ...
Not all is fair in today's society
Oct 06, 2008 ... The speech made by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at the LabourParty Conference received a warm ovation. In it, he declared himself a friend of hard-working families anddid name some quite good policies. But, despite that, he did very little to comfort the many who,through no ...
Acting as one to save the planet
Oct 06, 2008 ... A Recent report predicts that in 2042, the white population ofAmerica will be in a minority. As the original inhabitants of America were mainly brownishskinned, all this prediction means is the predominant skin colour isreturning before Europeans discovered that ...
Computer bytes into nhs care
Oct 06, 2008 ... So, yet another appalling case of someone being denied treatmenton the NHS ("Cancer sufferer must pay for own scan", EveningTelegraph, Saturday). Yet billions have and are being spent on a completely unnecessary"patient care" computer system that does not work properly and ...
Crisis? Sure you've got the right club?
Oct 06, 2008 ... What a difference a few weeks can make in the fortunes of afootball club. It seems light years ago since every mention of Derby County wasaccompanied by a reference to that most unwanted of records: theirfailure to win in 36 league matches. Today, the flimsy, feeble Rams of ...
Pupils delight inspector
Oct 06, 2008 ... A Derbyshire church school has been praised by a Derby Dioceseinspector for its family atmosphere. He found that pupils at Crich Carr C of E Primary School, inWhatstandwell, were thriving academically, spiritually andemotionally. The inspector praised the school, which has ...
School open day
Oct 06, 2008 ... A Primary school is holding an open day to give parents thechance to see why Government inspectors rate it as ...
Homes planned
Oct 06, 2008 ... Nine new homes could be built if plans get the go-ahead. Antony Slater lodged plans with Amber Valley Borough ...
Sweet wrappers kindle house fire
Oct 06, 2008 ... Firefighters were called to a house in Burton after a firestarted in the kitchen. The blaze, in Waterloo Street, was reported at about 4.40am onSaturday. It started behind a fridge-freezer after ...
Furniture blaze
Oct 06, 2008 ... Fire crews from Ilkeston were called to a house in St NorbertDrive after furniture outside was set on fire. The ...