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Four city schools told "improve or you could be closed down"

testing times:  (clockwise from top left) Boulton Primary, Sinfin Primary, Peartree Community Junior School and Allenton Community Primary School. Right: Education secretary Ed Balls.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

FOUR failing city primary schools have been told they could be shut down unless they improve pupils' test results within 15 months.

Boulton, Sinfin, Allenton and Pear Tree would be the first schools in Derbyshire closed for persistently poor grades.

The threat...

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Concerns over parking congestion push back nursing school's move

Royal Derby Hospital

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

PLANS to relocate Derby's school of nursing have been delayed until next year because of concerns about parking. Originally it was planned that a new...

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Complaints to NHS about GPs, dentists are up by a third

rise 'could be a good thing':  Dr John Grenville.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

THE number of complaints about GPs and dentists in Derbyshire has risen by more than a third in a year. Latest figures show that 1,026 grievances...

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Mobile library faces end of the road for estate book lovers

Mobile library  faces end of the road for estate book lovers

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A MOBILE book-lending service, which has been running in Derby for more than a decade, could be axed because the city now has more libraries. The city...

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Choir sings in praise of 'special' founder

musical send-off:  The funeral of Wallace Ross, inset left –  the composer and musician who formed the Derby Bach Choir and the Derby Cathedral Orchestra –  took place at the Church of St John The Evangelist  on Mill Street.   Pictures: Laura Page LP080210A-6/11

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

MUSIC filled a Derby church yesterday as part of a fitting tribute to a popular composer. Wallace Ross formed the Derby Bach Choir and its members...

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Tenants still can't return home after lethal gas at flats

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

ELEVEN people remained homeless today after mystery carbon monoxide fumes forced the evacuation of Derby flats. Saturday's incident was the second...

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Thai reopens with tiny prices

reinvention:  Waraporn Dale, Navapalai Panyamang and Piyanat Niyomthai toast the opening of  the Siam Corner Thai Rock Cafe on Osmaston Road.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A BUSINESSWOMAN who set up her first restaurant in Derby with only £2 in the bank has spent £150,000 rebranding it in a bid to fight back...

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Young take on sexual health

peer to help:  Peer educator Beca Banner talking to young people (above), while someone fills out a form for a free chlamydia test (right).

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

WHEN it comes to sex education the best people to teach the young are...the young. That is what 24-year-old Beca Banner has discovered as she has...

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Pupils dish up help for Haiti

collection plates:   Teacher Abdul Shahid, owner of Saffron restaurant,  held a charity night at which staff  and pupils from Woodlands School, in Allestree,  raised money to help   survivors of the  Haiti earthquake.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

SCHOOL pupils, their teacher and an Indian restaurant all joined forces to raise money to pay for life-saving water purification kits. Sixth-formers...

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Sahara ordeal is worth the agony

ON THE RUN!  Lois Newton is set to run 151 miles across the Sahara Desert.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

SNAKES, scorpions, scorching temperature, giant blisters – running the Sahara Desert will be the toughest-ever challenge for Lois Newton. But...

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