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YOUTH REWARD SCHEME WINNERS

Monday, March 15, 2010

IMPROVED BEHAVIOUR AND ACHIEVEMENT: Individual awards: Dolly Piggott, Joshua Brassington, Daniyal Urfan. Group awards: Breadsall Youth Club Movement dance group, Knockout.

IMPROVED BEHAVIOUR: Individual award: Ashley O'Toole.

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Almost £1m for children's centres

Monday, March 15, 2010

MONEY totalling £960,000 is to be spent on Derby's children's centres which provide childcare and advice for parents of under-fives. West End...

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Horvath is chosen for local elections

Monday, March 15, 2010

LIBERAL Democrats have selected their candidate for Oakwood ward in the local elections. Gary Horvath will stand in the Derby City Council elections...

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Poison link to cat's death sparks warning to owners

Poison link to cat's death sparks  warning to owners

Saturday, March 13, 2010

A CAT owner is warning others to be vigilant after her pet died from suspected anti-freeze poisoning. Rachael Palmer says she is frightened to let her...

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Council set to defy the critics over waste plant

worried:  Bob Laxton.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

PLANS for a major waste-to-energy power station in Derby have been recommended for approval despite massive objections from people living nearby....

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

SPONDON, Tuesday : Children's author Kjartan Poskitt presents a fun, interactive show from his popular Murderous Maths book series at Spondon Library...

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

SPONDON, Wednesday : Safer Spondon meeting, Co-op, Chapelside, 2pm to 4pm. How to make their homes safer and more secure. Burglar alarms, window...

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Fortnight's worth of pothole repairs on A52 eastbound

Friday, March 12, 2010

REPAIRS to potholes along the A52 will be carried out from today. Derby City Council says it will take about two weeks to repair the surface of the...

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Have a say on canal project

future vision:  Artist's image showing what the canal off Hopwell Road, in Draycott, could look like when    restored.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

MULTI-MILLION-POUND plans to restore a 20km stretch of a Derbyshire canal will be shown to the public in a series of exhibitions. The Derby and...

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Family left devastated by loss of "well-liked" Richard

TOOK HIS OWN LIFE:  Richard Smith found it hard to cope with two serious events in his life.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

THE family of a father found hanged hours after going missing have described him as a "kind, friendly and well-liked person". Richard Smith's body was...

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Notes: Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, up until the modern era Spondon was a village separate from the city of Derby. Nowadays the two are very close to each other, although Spondon still has a distinct 'village' feel to it.

The name Spondon is Anglo Saxon and describes a gravelly hill. From the south of the area one has to climb uphill to reach what was the village centre, the most common accesses being via Merchant Avenue, Willowcroft Road and Borrowash Road. There are also roads called Gravel Pit Lane and Stoney Lane.

In about 1333, a great fire, starting at the Malt Shovel Inn and aided by an easterly wind, swept through the village destroying the church and all but a few houses. The damage was so great that a judge, Roger de Bankwell, was sent to hear pleas for relief from taxes. The Great Fire of Spondon is still commemorated. On its 650th anniversary a village fair was held in the 1990s.

One of the high speed links with Derby effectively cuts the village into two, the Borrowash By-Pass (A52), the recently named Brian Clough Way. The oldest and most interesting sections lie north of this road and include the village itself with the beautiful church of Saint Werburgh, and Locko Park, the home of a local land-owning family, the Drury-Lowes. Spondon's secondary schools are also in the north and lie close to the boundary of Chaddesden.


Transport: Because of Derby's rail links Spondon is considered by some to be a dormitory village and there are many people who commute to London. Via the main roads, Derby city is no more than three minutes away and 1 hour 33 minutes after leaving Derby you can be in London on a fast train (thanks to recent timetable improvements by eastmidlandstrains.













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