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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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Firm fined after dust explosion

Breaking news: Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 14:35

A DERBYSHIRE company has been fined £50,000 after an employee was seriously burnt in a dust explosion. Paul Gothard, 54, was loading aluminium...

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Billy Brewer "assaulted"

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A 15-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly assaulting Burton Albion's mascot Billy Brewer. The teenager from Swadlincote was held by police on...

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Murderer who went on the run hands himself in

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A MURDERER who went on the run from a Derbyshire jail has handed himself in. Gary Gibbon, 43, was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court in 1985 to life...

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Toyota recalls Prius over brake problem

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

ABOUT 8,500 Toyota Prius cars are to be recalled in the UK because of a braking problem. Today's announcement in the latest blow to the reputation of...

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Concerns over parking congestion push back nursing school's move

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

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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