SEND Support Concerns
Parents, carers and teachers say seeking support for young people with special needs in Derbyshire is “overly adversarial” and education
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Review
Town Wind Band Out And About This Christmas
Belper Town Wind Band’s busy programme of Christmas events was launched at an evening concert held at St Mark’s Church,
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Book Review: Rainforest, Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on Tony’s many years’ experience at the frontline of the fight to save the
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Book Review: Ground Work – Writings On People And Places
We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one
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Y NOT 2018: Manic Street Preachers 27/07/18
As Nietzsche – or Rusty Cohle if it suits you better – once said “everything that happens is inextricably knotted
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Review: Brighton Rock At Derby Playhouse
I went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the film starring
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Review: Billy Liar by Belper Players
Ay up, welcome to 1950s Yorkshire. Mind Granny as you find your seat. The Belper Players have stepped up their
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Book Review: The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
Having spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great
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Review: 60 Degrees North by Malachy Tallack
At this time of year, as our thoughts turn to the North and the weatherman forecasts a weather front from
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Review: “How Did We Get Into This Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature” by George Monbiot
One of the things I like about George Monbiot is how well-researched his articles and essays always seem to be.
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Review: The Damned United
“Brian Clough’s journey from his beloved Derby County to the team he hated the most.” “Down the stairs, along the
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Review: Jinny and Look Back in Anger
I struggled to write this review and ended up leaving it far longer than I should have, for the simple
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Review: The Great Gatsby
“Can’t repeat the past?….Why of course you can!” As I walked into Derby Theatre, Billie Holiday was playing softly throughout
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Ferocious Dog: ‘From Without’
Nottinghamshire’s best live band return with ‘From Without’, a sophomore album that sees them more ferocious, more political and more
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