This week has seen publicity on Channel 5 and in the Derby Telegraph on the fly-tipping in Normanton centred around the findings of the Normanton Empowerment Team (NET). I went out with […]
Fly-Tipping in Normanton – How serious is the problem?
Tuberculosis in Derby : A menacing presence
Tuberculosis (TB) is usually considered by the lay public to be a disease of the past in the UK, and only really prevalent in Third World countries. This is not the case. […]
Trussell Trust Food Bank statistics – Misleading
Trussell Trust who run over 423 Food Banks in the UK ( currently zero in Derby) declared in their 2013/14 report that they handed out parcels to 913,138 people. This is a […]
Petra : Roma, finding home through the English Language
Petra, a Roma girl from Plzen in the Czech Republic, remembers her school days. “We were scared to go to school , they were waiting for me at the gates. They used […]
Arboretum Park (Normanton) Music and Family Day in the Sun.
Arboretum Park in the heart of the Normanton district of Derby was host to a small Music Festival ( courtesy of Derby City Council) and a Family Fun Day ( courtesy of […]
Food banks – should be about People not PR!
Derby has over 22 organisations supplying food and/or hot meals to the vulnerable in the City. These are operated through a variety of faith based, ethnic minority and refugee support groups. Each […]
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