August 2021

North-Derbyshire restaurant, The Tickled Trout has provided 140 lunches for summer school pupils at Outwood Academy in Newbold. The initiative is the latest in a line of kind community efforts from the Barlow-based gastro-pub, after staff provided doctors, nurses and carers at Chesterfield Royal Hospital with meals during the height of the covid-19 pandemic. Chris […]

Chesterfield Champion, Junction Arts has linked up with the historic North Derbyshire landmark, Hardwick Hall to deliver a project aimed at inspiring and empowering local people. ‘This Girl Codes’ is a Junction Arts project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and The People’s Postcode Lottery. The project uniquely uses arts, science, technology and maths to

Chesterfield residents are being encouraged to step up for a selfie – and become part of the town’s latest piece of public art – as part of an innovative project to celebrate the people and places of the borough. More than a thousand local people are being offered the chance to have their face featured

Thousands of students across the county are preparing to receive their A-level and GCSE results. On Tuesday 10 August 2021, students who were due to sit A-levels this summer will receive a grade for each subject which, due to the cancelled exams, is based on a range of evidence completed as part of the course.

Bolsover District Council are organising led bike rides to encourage people to keep fit and healthy. The bike rides will take in some of the wonderful countryside we have within the District and area available for a variety of ages and families to enjoy. The rides will take place as follows: Clowne Branch Line Greenway

People in North Derbyshire are being encouraged to a make a will this August as part of Ashgate Hospicecare’s Make a Will Month campaign. The hospice has partnered with BRM Solicitors who are waiving their usual fees during August and instead they are asking clients to consider a voluntary donation to Ashgate Hospicecare. The choice and amount

Police are appealing for information after the robbery of a shop in Baslow. The incident took place at Spar shop in School Lane at around 4.30 pm on Tuesday afternoon. A man – described as being 5ft 8ins tall, stocky with a ginger beard and wearing black trousers, a blue or grey hooded top and

Derbyshire Police are appealing for information after a 27-year-old man died following a collision with a car near Chesterfield. Officers were called to reports that a man had been injured in a collision with a car on the A619 Baslow Road, just outside Brampton, near Chesterfield, at around 10pm on the 1st of August. The