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Things to do STUDENT MUSICIAN CONTEST The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir are
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There will be a prize of £400 for the winning student, a prize of £150 for the student in second place, and a third prize of £75. The competition is open to all students resident and/or educated in Derbyshire who are in year 12 or 13 and it is expected that applicants will be at the standard of Grade 7 or above on their chosen instrument.
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Marie Curie Daffodil Dash
ALFRETON & DISTRICT RAMBLERS CLUB
Marie Curie, the leading UK charity for people with terminal illness has teamed up with Virtual Runner UK to develop an exciting new challenge for March 2019.
Bring a drink and packed lunch. Suitable footwear and clothing required. New faces made welcome.
The Daffodil Dash is a virtual challenge that requires participants to run or walk 28km throughout the month of March. Challengers can run, walk or even skip the 28km over a number of days, to help raise much needed funds for the charity.
Contact either Dave on 07543 100 655 or Terry on 07891 517 057 for more information or visit our new website www.alfretonramblers.weebly.com
Sponsorship raised from the challenge will help Marie Curie to raise the 2.8 million pounds needed to fund Marie Curie research underway across the UK.
UPCOMING WALKS Sunday walks meet at 9:30am at Alfreton Library Car Park
It’s just £12 to enter the Daffodil Dash and 20% of each signup fee will be donated to Marie Curie with 100% of sponsorship coming to the charity.
Thurs 7th Feb - Tom - Loscoe area 5 miles Sun 10th Feb TBA Sun 24th Feb - Eyam - 8 miles
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Things to do WE ARE BESS’ – EXHIBITION AT HARDWICK HALL Free entry, but normal admission charges apply. Another chance to see the acclaimed exhibition ‘We are Bess’ which reveals a new side to Bess of Hardwick’s story through the voices and experiences of modern-day women. From household names to local Derbyshire women, the portraits of 16 modern women, taken by award-winning photographer Rachel Adams, sit alongside the Tudor portraits in the Long Gallery
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Out & About
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Soroptimist International Amber Valley Firs House Alfreton, The Womens International Service Organisation - a global voice for women, 2nd Monday of the month,, 01773 745082 or 748606 E.M.J.J.A Jiu Jitsu & Kobudo Club 7.30-9pm, Alfreton Community Hall, £5 Lesson first one free, Contact Sensei D.Kershaw, 07840 327134, darrenker@sky.com St Andrews Baby & Toddler Group 10-11.30, The Old School House Swanwick, Term Time, young babies to school age, Contact Sara, 01773 608083 or 07736 927854 Dog Obedience Classes 7-9pm, Pentrich Village Hall, Vacancies for continued classes, Contact Margaret, 07917 854486 Dizzy Days Playgroup 10-11.30am, Church of Christ, Riddings, www.oscari.org, Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@oscari.org The Salvation Army - Friends and Fellowship 2pm, Sleetmoor Lane, Somercotes, Except bank Holidays, Contact Captain Vicky Owen, 01773 606945 or 07407 383375, vicky.owen@ salvationarmy.org.uk Amber Valley Voices 7.30pm, Swanwick Sports College, The Delves. Friendly Community Choir, Contact Angie, 07425 136017
Over 50’s club 10-12pm, Riddings Park Community Centre, Cuppa, Bingo,, Raffle and a chat Somercotes St Thomas Ladies Group 8-10pm, Somercotes Village Hall, Not the first Tuesday. New members welcome, just turn up on the night and the group will be very pleased to meet you. Pentrich WI .30-9.30pm, Pentrich Village Hall, 2nd Tuesday of the month, New members always welcome, Contact Julie, 01773 540350 The Salvation Army - Car and Share Coffee Morning 9.30-11.30am, Sleetmoor Lane, Somercotes, Except bank Holidays, Contact Captain Vicky Owen, 01773 606945 or 07407 383375, vicky. owen@salvationarmy.org.uk Derby A Capella, 7.30pm - 10pm, Chester Green Community Centre, City Road, DE1 3SA, Contact Gordon, 01332 518594, gordonsavage@yahoo.co.uk
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NRAS Chesterfield (National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society) 6.30-8pm, Tesco Clay Cross Community Room, 1st Tuesday of the month, 01628 823524 Alfreton Model Railways Society Club from 7pm, Butterley Station, Model Railway open most weekends and school holidays 11-5pm, Contact Secretary, 07838 002459, secretary. arms@btinternet.com Ripley & District U3A 11am, The Angel, Ripley, 4th Tuesday of the month Amber Friendship Group 2.30-4.30pm, Swanwick Methodist Church Hall, Entertainment & Afternoon Tea, 2nd tuesday of the month, 01773 604204 Dance Group 8.30-10.30pm, Riddings Community Centre, Come and join a friendly Group Coffee Morning 10-12pm, Swanwick Baptist Church, Coffee, Chat and Crafts Swanwick Cygnets Toddler Group 9.15-10.45am, Old School House, Swanwick, Term Time, Contact Angela, 01773 606329 Luncheon Club, Swanwick Methodist Church Ring for more details, Contact Gill, 01773 607860 Starter and Sweet Lunches 12-2pm, St James Church, Riddings, 4th Tuesday of the month, Contact Mrs Allsopp, 01773 607590 Somercotes Choral Society 7.15pm, Swanwick School & Sports , No auditions, a great hobby. We perform 2 x concerts per year. , Contact David, 07949 322717 Pentrich Historical Society 7.15pm, Pentrich Village Hall, 3rd Tuesday of the month, September - June. Talks on various historical subjects and light refreshments served £3 per meeting, Contact Michael Parkin, 01773 603071 Craft Group 10-12pm, Church of Christ, Riddings, Alternate Weeks, Bring your own craft., Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@oscari.org
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Watchorn Tots Parent and Toddler Group 11am-11.30am, Watchorn Church, Further details www. watchornchurch.com, Contact Judith Alfreton Town Juniors U14’s 7-8pm, Somerlea Park astro pitch, Contact Ben, 07972 9277236 Oakwood Royal British Legion 8.30-10.30pm, Oakwood Community Centre, All welcome for socials and branch meetings, 01332 679282 AVRUFC Senior Section 7-8.30pm, Amber Valley RUFC, For Training during closed season, Contact Stuart Artliff or Gareth Pilkington, 07966 867946/07722 366157 Baby Group 1-3pm, Pinxton Nursery School, All under 1’s welcome, 01773 863105 E.M.J.J.A Jiu Jitsu & Kobudo Club 7-8pm, Alfreton Leisure Centre, £5 lesson first one free, Contact Sensei D.Kershaw, 07840 327134, darrenker@sky.com Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Riddings Community Centre 2nd Wednesday of the month, Raffle and Speaker with Topics of Interest Over 50’s Sequence Dancing 2-4pm, Riddings Community Centre, Small friendly group. Light Exercise & Friendship. Raffle, Tea & Biscuits. , 01773 607907 Greenhillocks Fellowship 2-4pm, Wood Street Methodist, Over 50’s club, Contact David, 01773 423854 Swanwick Men’s Shed 3.30pm, Turners Lane off Crays Hill. DE55 1AS, Open to new members. Tea, cake and wood working projects., Contact Charlie Parkes, 07967 378305 Swanwick Reading Group 7pm, Boot & Slipper, Swanwick, 2nd Wednesday of the month, Contact Gary, 07941 766448, garynwood@hotmail.com Youth Group 3.45-5.30pm, Church of Christ, Riddings, Snacks and drinks provided, Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@oscari.org Crafty Chat 9am, Somercotes Village Hall, £2 pp, includes light refreshments, Contact Pamela, craftychat.pamela@gmail.com
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he Salvation Army, Singing by Heart Alfreton Model Railways Society Club 2-3pm, Salvation Army, Sleetmoor Lane, Somercotes, 2nd Friday of from 7pm, Butterley Station, Model Railway open most weekends and the month, Dementia Awareness Group. Come along for a sing along school holidays 11-5pm, Contact Secretary, 07838 002459, secretary. and fellowship., Contact Captain Vicky Owen, 01773 606945 or 07407 arms@btinternet.com 383375, vicky.owen@salvationarmy.org.uk Alfreton Society of Painters 7-9pm, Hathersage Community Centre, Contact Carol, 01773 603707 Alfreton & District U3A 2pm, Christ the King Church Hall, 2nd Thursday of the month, Contact Gill , 01773 608863, gilldaw@gmail.com Salvation Army Market Street Alfreton Male Voice Choir Rehearsals 9.30-12.30pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Drop in Centre, Contact 6.45pm, Palmer Moorwood Social Club, New members welcome. No Ruth Sheppard/Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386 audition just a love of singing, 01773 833391 A.D.A.S.C. Football Club Breastfeeding Group Various Sessions 5-16 year olds required for summer league, Contact 12.30-2.30pm, The Genesis Centre, Make new friends, discuss any Barry, 01773 836017 issues you may have, 01629 533735 Monthly Coffee Morning Ripley Poetry Reading Group 10-12pm, Somercotes Village Hall, 1st Saturday of the month, 2-4pm, Ripley Library, 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, Contact Homemade cakes, a variety of plants and so much more. Everyone Janet Dawson, 01773 513247 welcome. Salvation Army Market Street Swanwick Men’s Shed, 10am-3pm, Turners Lane off Crays Hill. 9.30-12.30pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Drop in Centre, Contact DE55 1AS, Open to new members. Tea, cake and wood working Ruth Sheppard/Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386 projects., Contact Charlie Parkes, 07967 378305 Carry-together Sling Library 1-2.30pm, Genesis Centre - Soft Play, Every other week, www. facebook.com/CarryTogetherSlingLibrary Alfreton & District British Legion Table Top Sales 7.15pm, Palmer-Morewood Club, 2nd Thursday of the month, Contact 10-12pm, Riddings Park Community Centre, Entrance 20p. Sellers Mike, abrbl@gmail.com from 9am £5 per table. First Sunday of the month, Contact Pat, 01773 Ripley & District U3A, 2pm, St Josephs Church Hall 541794 Open speaker meetings, u3asites.org.uk/Ripley Amber Valley Junior Rugby Swanwick Men’s Shed 10am, Lower Somercotes Opp. Pye Bridge, Kids 4-16 years, Contact 3.30pm, Turners Lane off Crays Hill. DE55 1AS, Open to new Stuart Artliff or Gareth Pilkington, 07966 867946/07722 366157 members. Tea, cake and wood working projects., Contact Charlie Greenwood Archery Parkes, 07967 378305 0am, Pentrich Road Football Club, Swanwick, Contact Simone, 01773 602605 Leabrooks Cougars FC Church of Christ Sunday Service 6-7pm, Swanwick Hall School, Training for U13’s , Contact Andy, 3pm, Church of Christ, Riddings 07811 227720 Sunday Lunch, Church of Christ, Riddings Coffee & a Chat 1st Sunday of the month, Two course Sunday Lunch for £3.50, 10-12pm, Church of Christ, Riddings, Bring your own craft. Www. Children eat for a quid. , Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@ oscari.org, Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@oscari.org oscari.org Social Café Swanwick Baptist Church 12-2pm, Church of Christ, Riddings, 2 Course Home Cooked Meal 10.45am, Swanwick Baptist Church, Occasional 6pm Service, other £2.50 , Contact Tracy, 07570 307195, enquiries@oscari.org activities are listed on our website., Contact Brian, 01773 833109, Coffee Morning for All www.swanwickbaptist.co.uk 9.30-11.30am, Riddings Park Community Centre, All ages welcome, The Salvation Army - Friends and Fellowship3pm, Sleetmoor come and enjoy and make new friends Lane, Somercotes, Contact Captain Vicky Owen, 01773 606945 or Ripley Classical Music Group, Evenings, Field Terrace 07407 383375, vicky.owen@salvationarmy.org.uk Community Centre4, Ripley, Meets twice a month, Contact Philip Outram, 01773 746939 The Salvation Army -Sing and Play 9.30-11.00am, Sleetmoor Lane, Somercotes, 0-2 years, Contact Guiding offers opportunities in the following Captain Vicky Owen, 01773 606945 or 07407 383375, vicky.owen@ sections: salvationarmy.org.uk Rainbows age 5-7yrs • Brownies aged 7-10yrs Guides aged 10-14yrs • Adult Leaders 18yrs + Senior Section aged 14-25yrs If you or your daughter would like to know more about Joining visit www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested or call 0800 1 69 59 01Amber Valley Gymnastics Club Alfreton Model Railways Society Club from 7pm, Butterley Station, Model Railway open most weekends and school holidays 11-5pm, Contact Secretary, 07838 002459, secretary. Amber Valley Gymnastics Club arms@btinternet.com Monday to Friday evenings and all-day . Sessions range from beginners to competitive levels, with pre-school classes during Riddings WI term time ranging from parent and baby sessions to structured 7-9am, Hathersage Drive Community Centre, Leabrooks, 3rd Friday of independent sessions. For information or to join please the month, new members welcome , Contact Marion, 01773 607104 email ambervalleygymnastics@outlook.com The Salvation Army, Craft & Cake
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Ripley and Alfreton Tennis Club Heage Road Ripley DE5 3GG. We meet several nights/days each week for social tennis. Further details can be obtained from our Secretary, Mr Dean Latham, on 07986 149810 www.ripleyalfretontennis.org.uk and on Facebook as @randatc
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Rambles with Rafa This month we have picked a walk which I think is perfect for a winter ramble, making use of some of the paths and trials to the north of Derby’s city centre. Our thanks, again, go out to David from JH Legal, who keeps providing us with new and interesting walks, whatever the weather! We begin our walk in Darley Park, heading down the side of the river Derwent, before crossing the river and turning to head back up, alongside the Racecourse Park. From here we pick a section of the Great Northern Greenway, turning off before we reach Breadsall. We then cut across to meet up with the River Derwent again, before heading south to pass through the West Mill and back to where we began.
4 1/2 mile circular walk from Darley Park, Derby
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START: Darley Park Car Park, Poplar Row, Derby. DE22 1DU 1. Standing with your back to the entrance cross the car park diagonal left passing some recycle bins on your left and taking the well laid footpath to pass behind the cricket club house. Follow the path with the river on your left for some distance and cross over a small wooden footbridge. 2. Continue ahead staying close to the river for some distance and eventually you will begin to pass houses raised up on a bank to your right. Eventually the footpath will turn into a road. Continue straight ahead to pass Derby Rowing Club and a small car park to your left. At this point keep left and take a tarmac footpath straight ahead of you keeping the river close on your left. 3. After a short distance, just before passing under a bridge, turn right. Then after a short distance turn left and up some steps. At the top of the steps turn left and cross over the bridge. At the other side of the bridge continue ahead and at the crossroad turn right, signposted for Allestree, Daley Abbey & Little Eaton. Follow the path keeping some industrial buildings on your right. 4. Continue until reaching a T junction with a road. Turn right and then immediately left to continue along ‘Chester Green Road’. Continue straight ahead with a row of houses on your left and a recreation area to your right until reaching a T junction with a main road. Cross over a zebra crossing in front of you and turn right along the main road. After a short distance take the 2nd left into Ceaser Street. 5. When the houses end and the road narrows continue straight ahead to pass beneath a bridge and walk on until reaching a main road. Cross straight over the road and then continue straight ahead along a footpath to pass through and underpass. Immediately after the underpass at a fork in the path bear to the left. After a very short distance at a crossroads of paths turn left again. Now continue along a footpath with playing fields on your right. 6. Continue straight ahead for some distance and then at a fork in the path bear right and continue to a main road. Cross over the road following a signpost for ‘Breadsall Hilltop’ and then continue along a tarmac footpath for some distance. 7. Eventually you will reach a road. Continue straight ahead along-side the road until reaching a T junction with another road and a pub directly opposite. Cross straight over this road, turn left to continue for a short distance along the road and then turn right through a width restrictor onto a footpath, keeping the pub on your right. 8. Continue along this footpath for some distance passing a signboard on your left reading ‘Great Northern Greenway’. After some distance, at a crossroads of footpaths, ignore the footpath on your right with a metal width restrictor and instead turn left through a gap in a fence along a footpath marked as cycle path ‘672’. Continue along this path going gently downhill until passing through a metal width restrictor and onto a road. Cross over and then turn left along the road. 9. Continue along the road for a short distance, then upon reaching some large stones on the right-hand side of the road turn right along a cycleway. After a short distance cross over a main road and pass through a metal swing gate to follow a footpath through some trees to cross a field.
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THE VOICE PHOTOSHOOT with Peter Nutkins
We may not have mentioned… but we are having a new website, coming soon! As part of this process, we needed some nice pictures of the local area and also some mug shots of the team and they needed to look good! So, who else could we ask to take on this massive undertaking but our very own Peter Nutkins! So, it turns out I can be quite demanding! I literally gave Peter a list of over 30 locations to capture that spans across all our 5 magazines, a bespoke theme for the front page of our website and, of course, we all needed to be photographed! So unphased, Peter set up his home studio and accommodated us as we arrived in 15-minute time slots. As I mentioned in my Editors Message, I may have taken a little longer than 15 minutes myself as I really do struggle to be at ease in front of a
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As you know, George, UCIP’s People’s Champion, has for some six months now, been carrying out research in an attempt to identify the issues that are seriously troubling the everyday man/woman of this country.
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So, there was big news as we were sending the magazine to print… no, not Brexit! Far more important that that, Nottingham Forest sacked Karanka. As another manager leaves the City Ground is it more of a surprise that this was not a surprise? So, after a little over 12 months, Aitor Karanka departs Nottingham Forest and the wider world sniggers at the latest managerial comings and goings at the City Ground. Having gone from perennial Championship strugglers in recent years, to a team with an enviable record against the division’s top teams, it looked like the large tanker stranded at sea was beginning to make a turn and head into somewhat calmer waters. All however, was not as it seemed. On the pitch, it looked like Forest were in good shape. A 3-3 draw at Norwich on Boxing Day wouldn’t ordinarily be cause for much concern, despite having been 3-0 - that collapse, coupled with some odd tactical decisions appeared to spark the decline. In truth, the problems had arisen long before the Canaries battled back to earn a point at Christmas time. Karanka’s relationship with the board had deteriorated and once that goes, as it did, the slope the Spaniard walked thereafter was always going to be a challenging one and one which proved impossible to correct. The thumping 4-2 win over Leeds on New Year’s Day did little to calm the rather choppy waters behind the scenes, and while the outpouring of emotion from the 30,000-capacity crowd on that afternoon showed the supporters to be behind their manager, the situation was fast becoming untenable within the corridors of power.
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