If one had to guess one would, I think, surmise that Alison Uttley was the townswoman, Beatrix Potter the countrywoman. There is something prettified, over-cosy about the Grey Rabbit stories that is ...

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The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025 — the first edition of the club football competition under FIFA's controversial new expanded format. Manchester City are the Club World ...

A Leicestershire-based surfacing company has secured a £650,000 contract to transform a former railway line in Derbyshire into a greenway for the local community. HMS Decorative Surfacing has ...

A football mad London- Irish girl is walking 100 kilometres this month to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Action. 13- year- old Ellie Murphy has undertaken the challenge for the third successive year ...

ELLIE Kildunne knows she enters 2025 with a target on her back but the full-back would not have it any other way. The 25-year-old is the reigning Guinness Women’s Six Nations Player of the ...

ELLIE Kildunne knows she enters 2025 with a target on her back but the full-back would not have it any other way. The 25-year-old is the reigning Guinness Women’s Six Nations Player of the ...

Omega Pharmacy in Derbyshire has been sold as its owners, husband-and-wife duo Manny and Poonam Rai, shift their focus to their other pharmacy in Coventry. The pharmacy has now been acquired by an ...

A Derbyshire council has scrapped four bus service contracts after their provider was found to be continually unreliable, including repeatedly missing parts of the routes. Derbyshire County ...

A Derbyshire mum whose 22-month-old toddler has undergone four months of brain cancer treatment says she cried so much her face was “sore” and “stinging”. Did you know with an ad-lite ...

POLICE conducted extra patrols and land searches in Parr today as a committed day of action to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. As part of the day of action in Parr, officers and PCSOs from ...

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