Blue Box Belper Celebrates its Third Annual Well-Dressing
When summertime brings its flowers and greenery to rural Derbyshire, the tradition of Well-Dressing is certain to return. From roadsides
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LIFESTYLE
New Food Blog Finds Best in Belper
With Belper becoming increasingly popular with visitors, a new Instagram account is shouting about the best of the best when
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Step forward for Autumn Walking Festival
People are being invited to dust off their boots to join in a celebration of the great outdoors. The annual
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A Stonewall Challenge To Belper Sports Clubs
Stonewall is currently running a campaign called “Come Out Active!” It’s a sports campaign and it is necessary because 40%
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Gender Neutral Toilets In Belper
Save Nailed – Your Independent News, Your Voice Help us to keep it loud by supporting our crowdfunder Click This
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“Bursting With Pride” – Are You Ready for Pride in Belper?
First off, what is Pride in Belper? It’s a brand new festival for Belper. It’s happening on Saturday 3rd August,
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Wild Trent Challenge -17km Run and Canoe
Take up Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s Wild Trent Challenge! Take the opportunity to explore wild spaces, experience the Trent Valley in
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Milford Care Home Celebrates Double Anniversary of Residents
Milford House, part of the Milford Care Group, threw a very special party last week to celebrate over 100 years
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World Tai Chi Day in Belper River Gardens
On Saturday 27th April 2019, it is World Tai Chi Day, and the U3A (University of the 3rd Age) Tai
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Local Toy Charity Volunteer Meets The Queen
It was champagne and canapes instead of toys and a cuppa as Ann-Marie McMillan, the founder of Derbyshire Toy Libraries,
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Current Scams, Fraud, and Cyber Security
Free Ransomware Decryption Tool Ransomware is a type of malicious software where criminals can remotely encrypt your device or your
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Hundreds of Nursing Vacancies at Derby and Burton Hospitals
Around 20 nurses are quitting their jobs every MONTH in Derby and Burton – resulting in hundreds of vacancies. In
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Planning For Belper Goes Green 2019 Now In Full Swing!
by Cherry Anderson The festival, which will be held on the weekend of 31st May and 1st, 2nd June at
Read moreFashion Revolution Event
Do you wear clothes? Do you know who made your clothes? I don’t mean which shop they were bought in
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Top Things To Do In Derby During Half Term
There’s plenty for families to look forward to in Derby this February half term, from Atlantis Splash Run to Family Track Cycling. Make a splash
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Free Bicycle Marking Event At Belper Market Place
Officers from the Belper Town Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team are offering you the chance to get your bicycle security marked
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Belper and District Speakers Group: Meeting 10th January
A newly formed Belper and District Speakers Group aims to help people to build the confidence and skills needed to
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Two “Outstanding” Belper Nurseries Get Council Donation
Derbyshire County Council has recognised the Ofsted “Outstanding” grade given to two Busy Bees nurseries in Belper, by donating £1000
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Belper Went Purple! What’s That All About?
Nearly one in every five people in the UK has a disability or impairment, and over half of households have
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Good Beer Guide 2019 Includes Six Local Pubs
Of Amber Valley CAMRA’s allocation of 10 pubs to include in the newly published 2019 Good Beer Guide more than
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St. Peter’s Wins Silver Eco Church Award
By Anne Clark St Peter’s Church is very pleased to announce that they have been given a Silver Eco
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Sustainable Living Shop To Open on Saturday
On Saturday 22nd September, at 11am, Belper will see the opening of a new shop. This one isn’t another gift
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10 Ways To Find Time For You this September
As the weather cools, the nights draw in and we get back into the routine of work and the school
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Discover Derbyshire This Summer Holiday
There’s plenty of activities happening in Derbyshire throughout the summer and Derbyshire County Council has picked out several to ease
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Proud Residents At Belper Care Home Take Part In 180-Year-Old Tradition
Local care home residents have been getting creative as part of the annual Belper Well Dressing tradition. Last week Belper
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Warning Issued By Derbyshire Forensic Psychologist Over Online Dating Risks
A forensic psychologist from Derbyshire, who has recently appeared as an expert TV commentator on new documentary, Swipe Right For
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91-Year-Old ‘Graduate’ Celebrates Success At Local Care Home
Staff and residents at Milford House care home in Belper have thrown a ‘graduation’ party to celebrate one of their
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The Slug, the Bad and the Ugly
Your essential guide to managing the slug population and keeping sane in your garden this spring, by Jo Dyer I
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Diamond Couple Celebrate 60th Wedding Anniversary At Belper Care Home
Ethel (82) and Chris (81) Hayward celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary at Milford House Care Home on Thursday 5 April.
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‘Aliens’ Crash Land At Treetops Nursery
Treetops Nursery Alton Manor, Gregorys Way, created a week long ‘out of this world’ adventure for children, families and people
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St George’s Day Celebrations In Derby
Derby LIVE has announced it will once again be working with FOLK 3D and The Lost Boys Theatre Company, along
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Care Home Staff And Residents Get A Kick Out Of Shrovetide
Residents at a care home in Milford had a ball when they took part in an event with a difference.
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Top Things To Do During Half-Term
Families can look forward to a fun-filled, action-packed week in Derby this February half term at Derby City Council’s leisure
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“Seizing The Moment – New Year, New Nursery” How Treetops Alton Manor In Belper Decided To Do Things Differently
Alton Manor Nursery has started the new year off with a new approach to how they believe early years care and
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Top 5 Ways To Stay Active In Derby
New Year is a good time to review your lifestyle and make some positive changes to benefit your health and
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Belper Bill Busters: Take Care This Winter
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that crops up in the colder, darker months – in other
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Belper Bill Busters: CAP’s Top Tips For A Happier Christmas
Well, Christmas is almost upon us once again. Out come the lights, decorations, carols and wrapping paper… as that song
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A Sweet Challenge for Care Home Staff and Residents
A care home company mixed things up as residents and staff competed in a bake-off style challenge. Milford Care, which
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Belper Bill Busters: How To Be A Super Savvy Student Saver
Did you know that before starting university, 7% of students have never opened a bank account and 69% have never
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Family Fun Activites For October Half Term
In Derby are preparing for a busy half term this October, with lots of offer for everybody to enjoy around
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Belper Bill Busters: 100 days to Christmas, 10 ways to save
Can you believe it? 16 September marks 100 days until Christmas Day! Christmas is great, but it can become costly
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Picks For August Bank Holiday Weekend
The August bank holiday weekend will soon be here and Nailed have some excellent ideas to keep people entertained around
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Two Weeks Left For Derbyshire Parents To Claim Extra Free Childcare
Working families are being reminded that they have just two weeks left to apply for extra free childcare. All three
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Belper Bill Busters: Holiday Abroad At A Price You Can Afford
The kids are off school, the ice cream is melting, and the suntan lotion is flowing fast – it’s summer!
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Inspiring Ideas For The Summer Holidays
Summer is here and In Derby have got some brilliant ideas to keep everyone entertained around Derby this August. From
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Summer Reading Challenge Launched
This year’s Summer Reading Challenge has been launched. The challenge has the theme Animal Agents and will see children turning
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Be Your Own Kind Of Brilliant – Skill Share Group
A multi-talented and curious group of young people in Belper need creative and brilliant local people of all ages to
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Belper Food Festival a Roaring Success Again
On Sunday 9th June, the Summer Belper Food Festival, in its 10th year, once again brought thousands of visitors to
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Belper Bill Busters: Welcome To The (Frugal) Festival Season
For families, couples and groups of friends alike, festivals are always a summer favourite. What could be better than a
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Support And Advice Available During Carers Week 2017
Carers can find support, information and advice at a number of events and drop-in workshops being held around the county
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Belper Bill Busters: Gardening On A Budget
Glam Up Your Garden On A Budget 21 June – the first day of summer! What better time to get
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Top Things to Do With Children This Spring Bank Holiday
Families in Derby can look forward to a brilliant schedule of events taking place across the city this half term,
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Belper Bill Busters: Holiday Advice
We’re all going on a summer holiday…but can we afford it? With the weather warming up and summer on the
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Family Activities In Derbyshire This Easter
If you’re looking for something to do over the Easter holidays then Derby County Council have compiled a list of
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Easter Belper Bill Busters: This Easter Break, Don’t Break The Bank
Every year around Easter time, parents’ minds inevitably turn to a fortnight full of restless, chocolate-fuelled children. For some, keeping
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Belper Bill Busters: Have A Happy, Healthy Pet – On A Budget!
There really is nothing quite like the companionship you get from having a pet around and it can be so
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The Women’s Circle: An Oasis Of Calm In The Whirlwind Of Life?
The Women’s Circle is a monthly space where women come to share their stories, inspire each other, learn and connect.
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Five Ideas For An Alternative Lent
This year, the Christian season of Lent kicks off on Wednesday 1 March and will see people up and down
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Garden Waste Collection Scheme Still Proving Popular
Amber Valley Borough Council’s Garden Waste Scheme will recommence collections on the 27th of February. The scheme is still proving
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Free Sessions To Give Your Finances A New Year Makeover
Trained members of local churches are ready to help you gain control of your money matters with free sessions. Belper
Read moreVote for Belper’s Ben to win “Beard of the Year”
Write-in votes have seen Amber Valley Borough Councillor Ben Bellamy join the Beard Liberation Front’s online poll to choose
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Guest Column: Despite Recent Events ‘We Cannot And Must Not Let Fear Of Crime Overtake Our Lives’
We woke up on Saturday morning to the most shocking and horrific news. Tales of men on the rampage on
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Jud’s Jottings
Well, it looks like ‘ave gorra new ‘ome for me jottin’s. It’ll be rate gud to be on internet and
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Positive Life Skills Course Aims To Boost Wellbeing
If money is a source of stress, new free sessions run by the local church might be an answer to
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Guest Column: Belper’s Greatest Accolade Is Its Diligent Volunteers
As a regular Sunday school attendee as a child, I was impressed by the power of the ten commandments. The
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Belper Drop-In Session To Encourage Residents To Swap Time And Skills
Derby County Council is setting up a new scheme that helps residents carry out tasks for others and receive help
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The Sky Over Belper: November 2016
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office/Bill Cooke November brings meteor showers from the Taurids and the Leonids (which this year will
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Belper Bill Busters: Making A Will Isn’t Morbid, It’s Important
Talking about making wills and leaving legacies may seem a little too morbid for this time of day, but in
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Crate Digger: Alternative Halloween Songs
Halloween does not yet suffer from the same musical overload as Christmas. Mercifully we are spared endless repititions of the
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Solve the Mystery of the Belper Puzzle Trail for a Chance to Win a Fitbit One
Do you fancy getting outdoors with the family for some fresh air and a bit of fun? If so, you
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Vacancy: Volunteer Recruitment Worker
£7.40 per hour 6 hours per day for 2 days a week for 40 weeks. We are looking for an
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Belper Bill Busters: Super Stoptober Savings
This year, national campaign Stoptober is back. Launched in 2012 as a month-long campaign to encourage smokers to quit, the
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Accessible Belper Announces First AGM
Accessible Belper have announced their first Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 14th September at 5.45 pm at the Strutt’s centre.
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Don’t Let Debt Drive You To Suicide Says Charity
A local branch of a debt charity is calling for people stressed by finances to seek help. Christians Against Poverty
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Is Your Child Ready For The New School Year?
Parents of pre-school children are being urged to make sure their child is ready for school. That includes a child being
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Belper Bill Busters: Back To School Bargains
Didn’t those six week holidays fly by? It seems like only yesterday the kids came bounding out of school full
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Trailblazing Chapel Leads The Way For Same Sex Marriages
Field Row Unitarian Chapel in Belper is the first place of worship in Derbyshire and the Amber Valley to be
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Sign Up For Garden Waste Scheme NOW
We previously covered the end of the free Garden Waste service (brown bins) due to extreme cuts in funding from
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The Sky Over Belper: The 2016 Perseid Meteor Shower – 17th July to the 24th of August
The Perseid meteor shower is predicted to peak between the hours of midnight on Thursday the 11th of August and
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Belper Bill Busters: Volunteering August
Bored Teenager? Get Them Volunteering This Summer If you’ve got kids, especially teenagers, the summer holidays can be a long,
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Gardening Column: Belper’s Well Dressings & Open Gardens
The last four weeks saw Belper buzzing with an exciting range of events. Belper Open Gardens, The Food Festival, Well
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Get Set For The Summer Holidays! − Activities For Youngsters Throughout Derbyshire
With the summer holidays rapidly approaching, families are looking for activities to do during their spare time. Derby County Council
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Make The Most Of A Rainy Day On A Shoestring
It’s now officially summer… apparently. Tell that to the dark clouds and puddled streets. With any luck, Britain will afford
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Belper Open Gardens Delights and Inspires
Visitors to Belper Open Gardens this weekend couldn’t fail to be delighted. For a modest charge of £3, there was
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Archbishop of Canterbury Begins Tour of Derbyshire
Tomorrow (21st June) the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby begins a three day tour of Derbyshire. The events take place
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Belper’s Celebrations for the Queen in Photos
A number of events happened in Belper to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday. Here are some of the photos submitted
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Hirsute Personality of the Year: Ben Bellamy Nominated
One of Belper’s Borough Councillors, Ben Bellamy, has been nominated for the Hirsute Personality of the Year Award in one
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The Queen’s Official Birthday at St. Peter’s Church
The flower festival to celebrate the life of the Queen looks rather beautiful in the recently repainted St. Peter’s Church.
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New County Council Youth Grant Scheme Launches
A new grant scheme has been launched by Derbyshire County Council. They have made £50,000 available for the development of
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Flower Festival for Queen’s Birthday
A Flower Festival is to be held in Belper as part of the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations. The displays will
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Proposal to Build on Green Belt Land Unites Labour and Conservatives.
A planning application has been submitted to Amber Valley Borough Council to build 201 houses on Green Belt land between
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Belper Bill Busters: Drive Towards Better Savings
Last year saw a brief period of bliss for drivers when fuel prices dropped to less than a pound per
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Church Throwing A Lifeline To People With Poor Mental Health
Local Churches have told how they are helping people with anxiety, depression and other psychological conditions to find new hope.
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Belper Bill Busters: Start Planning Your Summer Staycation
The days are getting longer and the weather is getting (slightly) warmer – sure signs that summer is on its
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The Transit of Mercury: Monday 9th of May 2016, 11.45 am Onwards.
The planet Mercury will transit the Sun on Monday the 9th of May. Planetary transits of the Sun are relatively
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Town Clerk: A Farewell Letter
In 2002 I needed to reinvent myself. I got a job working at a centre that provided computer courses for
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Belper Bill Busters: Moving House With Your Money In Mind – Renting VS Buying
So you’re thinking of moving house – and whether you’re just out of your childhood home or on your eleventh
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Celebrating the Independent Producers
Living in Derbyshire we are very lucky to be able to say that we are home to some truly fantastic
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100th Anniversary of Inventing an Hour: British Summertime Begins
Spring Forward, Fall Back. No-one ever remembers when the clocks change and many people cannot remember whether they go forwards
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Charity Opens Two New Local Debt Centres
People struggling with the misery of unmanageable finances will be able to get free debt help in two new areas
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Accessible Belper Off To a Great Start
Accessible Belper is a new group dedicated to improving and raising disability awareness in the town; it had a packed
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NPlan4B: Culture and Heritage
“PLAN FOR BELPER” your town – your plan – your future Culture and Heritage The Neighbourhood Plan for Belper is
Read moreMaintaining the Value of the World Heritage Site
Last week Nplan4B hosted a talk, by Barry Joyce MBE and Adrian Farmer from the Derwent Valley Mills Partnership, to
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Heage Scouts Sustainable Living Project Under Threat
The Heage Scouts run an allotment, upon which they grow fruit and vegetables and breed chickens, selling the eggs and
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Is The Old Strutt’s School Haunted?
On Friday 12th February a large group of people from Belper, Derby and Nottingham met in Strutt’s community centre (the
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Guest Blog: From Bangkok to Belper – Week 4
Did you every have a thirst to drop everything and go travelling? Fly to the other side of the world
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Safer Internet Day 2016 for Children and Teens
Over a hundred countries will be teaming up to support Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 9th February to promote the
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Recipe: Chilli Cheese Scones
In the stakes of simple cooking there is little more that is more simplistic than the Great British classic of
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The History of The Lion Hotel
The Red Lion as a Coaching Inn The original building date of the Red Lion is not known, but is
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Merry Christmas Belper
We would like to wish every person and pet in Belper the happiest winter festival that you can have,
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Get Tips for Reducing Waste
Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste and
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Crate Digger: Alternative Christmas Songs
Every Christmas seems to be accompanied by the same sound track. I am not one to begrudge the extra income
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Christmas Magic Online
In the modern age it becomes harder and harder to retain the magic of Christmas for young children. But sometimes
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Crate Digging: An Occasional Column Extolling the Virtues of Vintage Vinyl
There was a time when charity shops were a joy for the crate digger. A rummage through the record stacks
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Belper Attracts Thousands for Christmas
The Army Cadets were looking after the traffic barriers and security and this was our first introduction to the exhibition
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Christmas Biscuits Recipe
Christmas is just around the corner and as ever it brings with it the usual underlying panic of preparations. Presents
Read moreDerbyshire Council Introduce Time Swap Scheme
Derbyshire County Council have introduced a new scheme which is already accessible (albeit little advertised) across the entire county.
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Lost Photos of Belper Now Online
Long before Google Maps sent their vans out to photograph the world, Francis Frith was conducting his own postcard project
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Local Train Station Displays Community Pride
Photo: Representatives from Derwent Valley Line Stations with their awards Ambergate, Belper and Cromford Stations were winners at East Midlands
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Belper Winter Food Festival – December 6th
Sunday 6 December 2015, 10 am-3 pm, sees the return of the Belper Winter Food, Real Ale & Craft festival
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