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Vacant Derbyshire pub set to become short-stay tourism venue despite parking worries

A parish council objected to the plans

Six people charged with murder after stabbing of young Derby man Dale Martin

Two women have also been charged with assisting an offender

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review – a propulsive story of German resistance

A thriller-like account of the influential men and women who opposed Hitler and paid a terrible priceOn 10 September 1943, a loose group of well-connected friends met in a small apartment in the Charlottenberg area of Berlin. The host was Elisabeth von Thadden and the nominal reason for the get-toge...

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamersFive years ago, on the verge of the first Covid lockdown, I wrote an article asking what seemed to be an extremely niche question: why...

Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of painThe face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdraw...

Photographer Joy Gregory on her new project, decades in the making: ‘A lot of people I worked with on it have died’

A new retrospective by the Black British artist plays with everything from the Victorians’ use of flowers to Eurocentric beauty standards – including one piece she started in 2003There weren’t many Black students at the Royal College of Art when Joy Gregory was a student in the 1980s, but she did st...

A walk in the park! The exhibition set in the great outdoors – in pictures

Set within the grandeur of Dalkeith Palace and its grounds, 17 leading photographers create work that responds to nature – including beaming family members’ faces on to trees! Continue reading...

The Glassworker review – beautiful Ghibli-esque anti-war fable

Pakistani animator Usman Riaz’s dazzling debut owes much to Hayao Miyazaki, founder of Japan’s legendary studio, even if the magic and wonder falls a little short of his heroGoing by the poster, it looks like Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli, has come out of retirement...

Tiny Derbyshire Town Has Been Named Best Place To Retire In England

The UK's best place to retire has been named as the tiny town of Glossop, on the edge of the Peak District, with a life expectancy of 85 and a short drive to Manchester

TV tonight: Mawaan Rizwan’s zany comedy Juice returns

Russell Tovey guests in a top series that dips into the surreal. Plus: Sky’s uranium-on-the-loose thriller Atomic reaches its conclusion. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC ThreeA second series of Mawaan Rizwan’s zany comedy based on his Edinburgh fringe show from 2018 opens with the first tw...

Clarks opens up a shoebox of memories with museum to mark 200th year

Shoemakers Museum in Somerset village of Street displays everything from school shoes to Wallabees and Desert BootsFor some visitors, the museum may bring back memories of being fitted for their first pair of school shoes on a rather chilly metal gauge. For others, the cabinets of pristine Wallabees...

Black Rabbit review – it’s almost impossible to care about Jude Law and Jason Bateman in this TV misery

The two actors play brothers dragged into danger by gangsters, but are too stupid or poorly sketched for you to sympathise with them. It’s a relentlessly cheerless watchHard on the heels of the airless misery of Mark Ruffalo’s new venture, Task, comes Jude Law and Jason Bateman’s Black Rabbit, which...

Council leader unable to say if Darley Park Weekender 2025 made a profit

This year's Darley Park Weekender sold 6,000 tickets, down from 11,000 in 2024 and 15,000 in 2023

Derbyshire council set to save £275,000 by ending two sports pavilion leases

Leases in Repton and Overseal are set to be ended by South Derbyshire District Council

Together for Palestine concert: Benedict Cumberbatch, Damon Albarn and Neneh Cherry take stage at galvanising and star-studded gig for Gaza

Scores of artists, speakers and activists appear at four-hour fundraiser curated by Brian Eno – but it’s Palestinian voices who make the biggest impressionThe sheer scale of it was boggling. A total of 69 artists, speakers and activists were to appear at Ovo Arena Wembley.There were stars of music:...