MANY watches continue to make more than face value at auction. It’s the stories that go with them that appeal, be it James Bond, the lunar landings or military heroics. Although some…
The Heritage Open Days festival is bigger and better than ever this year – with plenty of fascinating places to visit across the county this month, as Barrie Farnsworth explains. THERE are…
It is the 40th anniversary of ‘enterprising’ Bakewell Choral, as Peter Knowles reports. IT WAS IN 1978 that Richard Barnes, a music teacher at Lady Manners School, Bakewell had an article in…
Patrick Coleman looks how farming has changed over the last century. IF there’s one thing about Derbyshire that doesn’t change, it’s the county’s status as a farming epicentre. From the dawn of…
A group of ‘cemetery friends’ have made some remarkable discoveries about some remarkable local women, as Rosie Gilligan reports. THE remains of Anne Veronica Fletcher, a nurse in World War One, rest…
The nation’s new soccer hero Harry Maguire is very much a grass-roots man, as students Jack Neath and Mark Robins discover… IF YOU’RE NOT AN AVID FOOTBALL FAN, you’re probably not the…
Steve Brown meets a multi-talented printer, photographer, abstract artist and rock climber! WHAT do a musician, a landscape photographer, an abstract artist, a film maker, a rock climber and a screen printer…
A ‘Bogtastic Van’ is telling the world about the efforts to preserve our fantastic moorlands, as Izzy Bunting reports. THE TERM ‘MOORLAND’ covers so much more than the barren, wind-swept, landscapes most…
