It’s that day of the week again with the Ashbourne News Telegraph out. Here are the items that relate to Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich or Pikehall:
- p. 8 Feature on Tom Chambers and Strictly Come Dancing
- p. 9 Full page feature on Denise Ball’s skydive raising funds for Breast Cancer (click here to see more at PARWICH.ORG, and click here for the Ashbourne Telegraph article also with a video clip)
- p. 27 Don’t miss Parwich & District Local History Society’s visit to Lud’s Church on Sunday (meet 12-30pm Sycamore Inn car park to share cars)
- p. 31 The Tissington Area Safer Neighbourhood Team will meet at 7-30pm Monday 17th November in Parwich Memorial Hall (all welcome)
- p. 55 Ashbourne Town Darts: Parwich Legion 7 – 2 Cock Inn; Sycamore 4 – 5 The Bullets; and Waterloo 9 – 0 Parwich Legion A
- p. 55 Hartington Darts & Dominoes: knock out dominoe singles saw Badger Walker (Legion H) getting through to the semi-finals.
Here are some other items of possible interest:
- p.1 & 7 More ‘Big Cat’ stories. Click here for the first article and here for the second.
- p. 2 Government looking at cutting the number of village surgeries able to make up prescriptions on site (could this impact on those of us using Hartington Surgery?). Click here for the article.
- p. 4 Derbyshire County Council say parked cars at the bottle neck on Buxton Hill in Ashbourne (opposite Bramhalls) may “act as a natural traffic calming feature”.
- p. 5 Battle over planning consent for the Carsington Pastures wind farm will go to High Court. Click here for the article.
- p. 14 Sir Richard FitzHerbert was voted off second on The Weakest Link last week.
- p. 35 Erosion of peat in the Peak District is releasing carbon dioxide and contributing to global warming.
- p. 52 Good to see Debbie’s cheerful face again, with a feature on the Ashbourne Volunteer Centre
As always, let us know if we have missed any items relating to our area.


It’s all up on the website at last!!
Sorry about the delay everyone, We have four videos and a slideshow this week so it’s been a real battle to get it all online today. (he says, taking a sigh of relief)