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If you live in Ripley and love to decorate your house with Christmas lights, this is for you...
Back for a 9th year Chesterfield Arts and Market Festival 2012 sure does have something for everyone. The only problem will be picking and choosing what to do!
Halloween has become huge in the last few years, and nearly all of us will do something to mark the day, whether it be carving a pumpkin, dressing up as witches, ghouls, ghosts, zombies or skeletons and maybe even going trick or treating! But do you know how our Celtic ancestors celebrated the 31st October? Read on as Heanor Gate Science College Students tell us all about it...
Chesterfield is launching a new four-day Community Arts Festival over the early May Bank Holiday. We want to fill the whole of Chesterfield with art, music, drama, dance, singing, performance, crafts and we are inviting everyone to join in.
We round up all the Halloween events and activities and all the Bonfire Night firework displays and fun around Heanor, Ripley and the local area. Check this out if you want to know what to do or where to go this spooky season...
In the week that we brought you news of Amber Valley Borough Council's plans for Greenwich Park in Ripley, more plans for top quality sports facilities in Loscoe have been announced.
One of the hottest topics affecting Ripley at the moment is the proposed development of Greenwich Park on Nottingham Road. Amber Valley Borough Council has now unveiled its plans for the new park and is inviting us all to have our say...
We are now well into the month of October, and Halloween is just round the corner and if you are looking for something to do this Halloween in Chesterfield then look no further than our SPOOKTACULAR Halloween blog...
There was a time when learning about people in different countries and cultures was confined to reading text books and looking at pictures. But how much can you really find out about a whole way of life by just reading a few pages in a book. Wouldn't it be so much better if you could talk directly to people you are learning about, see their classrooms, their faces, their clothes; ask them questions and listen to them telling you stories about their lives? In one of our local schools this has now become possible thanks to the power of Skype.
People are always moaning these days about how run-down both Heanor and Ripley are looking, but one project is aiming to change all that, one small step at a time...
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