The Ashbourne News Telegraph is in the shops again today, as well as being available electronically. Click on the image of this week’s front paper to see the paper in full on-line. Click here to find out about getting it emailed to you on a regular basis.
There are a few items relating to our immediate area this week:
- p.2 Diesel stolen from lorries’ fuel tanks at Longcliffe between 5pm Monday 5th and 5pm Tuesday 6th Jan (please report any information to the Police on tel 0345 123 333)
- p.9 Simon Ingham would rather not be in the paper this week as Bennetts announce five redundancies
- p.9 Planning application has been submitted to convert existing barns to holiday accommodation at Cold Eaton Farm (click here for details of the application)
- p.29 The record level of hits for PARWICH.ORG last month resulted in part from Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing success (see our post on the December figures)
- p.46 Hartington and District Darts and Dominoes: results both the teams from the Legion and the Sycamore and their league postitions
- p.47 Ashbourne Town Darts (results on-line)
However you might also be interested in the these additional articles:
- p.1 & 10 Help decide on a name for the new Ashbourne Hospital. Also you can vote on which of the nine options you prefer on the paper’s website
- p.2 JCB announce new wave of redundancies.
- p.3 Red Hot Chilli Pipers confirmed as headline act at this year’s Highland Gathering
- p.6 & 7 Tim Baker painting this year’s Shrovetide ball
- p.9 Derbyshire County Council launch the Derbyshire Redundant Building Grant Scheme (click here for the County Council website and here for notes on the Grants)
- p.11 Asbourne big cat photo a hoax
- p. 29 Cash-strapped police dump 12,000 crimes: “the crimes were not probed because there was lack of evidence or little hope of finding the offenders“
As always let us know about anything we have missed.
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Oh, it’s the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. I got quite excited for a moment there!
(Not to disparage the Pipers, of course – I’m sure they’re very good…)
So ‘The Beast of Ashbourne’ is a hoax! What a shame – a big cat prowling round the town added a bit of glamour I thought!
One of the pranksters is key organiser of The Y Not Festival. Look for The Stray Cats headlining next year!
The photo is a hoax, but there are still all the previous sightings.