Busy Derby street 'losing its character' amid housing row
Residents signed a petition in 2023 calling for Brighton Road to be protected
Residents signed a petition in 2023 calling for Brighton Road to be protected
The former toilet block at Artist's Corner on the A6 near Matlock Bath were closed by the council seven years ago
Local / Ashbourne - 13 hours ago
Derbyshire Dales District Council is set to make many changes to its current parking charges
Derbyshire police say no criminal investigations have been launched after the incident
Police have repeatedly been called in to deal with cars abandoned by visitors
Buxton in Derbyshire is known for its charming Victorian architecture and beautiful landscapes, but now it's set to become the 'next cool place' in the UK after £100m makeover
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
Takaya Imamura worked at Nintendo for 32 years before leaving to create his own game, Omega Six. He shares anecdotes from those pivotal years at the creative giantIn 1889 in Kyoto, craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a hanafuda playing card company. He called it Nintendo – a phrase whose meaning is...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and the Gallaghers’ ill-fated dabble with dynamic pricing have put the spotlight on how much we’re willing to pay for live music. But, on the other side of the equation, the costs can be exorbitant and the risks are eye-wateringThe news that Oasis were to reunite sparked a w...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Large, gruesome, brutal and gluttonous: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?The animated film Shrek opens with the eponymous hero wiping his bottom on a book. Shrek then emerges from the toilet and we follow his swamp-savvy morning routine. He ba...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedyThere’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a delightful nonsense song that mi...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
We would like to hear your memories of David Lynch, as well as whether you are attending today’s global group transcendental mediation at noon PT David Lynch, the maverick American director, has died aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries and made a string of influential, criticall...
The road was closed while emergency services dealt with the incident
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
This tale of nice ordinary folk doing bad things is a cartoonishly grisly comedy with a hint of Fargo, though without the off-kilter humourThe family that eats together stays together, they say. But the proverb will have to be tweaked for director Caden Douglas’s cartoonishly grisly comedy, in which...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuanceMatt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
Beecher’s beautiful memoir, written partly in response to the death of her brother aged 25, describes in startling detail the highs and lows of existenceThe title of Anna Beecher’s first work of nonfiction can be read in various ways – an expression of triumph, relief or anticlimax. She uses it as a...