- Girls' seven-plus abortion history
- Mother killed in pushchair accident
- Heatwave will last into weekend
- Second Briton is tested for rabies
- '50st teenager' cut free from home
- Patients to rate hospital treatment
- Yes-to-independence campaign begins
- Clegg warning over Greece euro exit
- Wpc murder: Yard team goes to Libya
- Hunt's ex-aide faces press inquiry
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New mayors take on chains of office
THE CHAINS of office changed hands this week as new mayors were sworn in in Amber Valley and Ripley.
Search for best amateur pictures
DO YOU look at pictures in The News and think you could take something better? Well now is your chance to prove it in our new Specsavers Life Thru The Lens competition.
Submarine bell back to generous Alfreton
AN HISTORIC plaque and bell from a submarine were returned to the people of Alfreton in a special ceremony last week.
Cash up for grabs
Local groups are being invited to bid for cash to build better communities from a new £1m Derbyshire County Council fund.
Sport
Inspirational figures
ENGLAND’S network of County Golf Partnerships (CGPs) are celebrating success after they inspired more than 54,000 people to have a go at golf in the last year.
Alfreton CC struggling for consistency
Alfreton CC travelled to Elvaston on Saturday looking to build on their convincing win against Staveley Welfare the previous week.
Losing draws as Denby field four teams
FOR the first time this season all four Denby senior teams turned out on the same day and unusually all ended up with the same result unfortunately losing draws all around.
Jaxx Q Club storm to Plate final win
THE final of the Jimmy Harper Plate competition was sole focus this week as Bolehill Institute No 2 took on Jaxx Q Club Belper No 1 with the match being played at an impressive new setting for the league of Gladiators Social Club, based at Matlock Town FC.
Bowls duo reach county finals
BELPER Meadows hosted the Belper and Mid-Derbyshire Crown Green Bowls Association’s Men’s Singles Merit Competition.
Lifestyle
More bands in festival line-up
Darren Hayman and Belle and Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson are among a host of new artists joining the line-up for Indietracks 2012.
Big band and organ concert
THE Pipes In The Peaks venue at Thorpe, near Ashbourne, is to host a concert entitled The Organ, The Big Band and Me, on June 9.
Codnor gig for Zep act
Acoustic Zeppelin, the unplugged duo formed of members of two top UK tributes – Fred Zeppelin vocalist Steven Gale and Sack Sabbath guitarist Russ Saxton – will play Codnor’s Jessop Arms on Friday, June 1.
Chorus heads for the seaside
Derbyshire’s own Barbershop Choir, The Grand Central Chorus, is off to the sea side this week end but there’ll be no buckets and spades just bottles of water and tuning forks.
Community
Cricket club
There are a lot of smiling faces in this picture taken at the Heanor Town Cricket Club.
Keep the Jubilee pennies coming
We are hugely pleased to announce this week that we have reached the £200 mark in our Jubilee Jam Jars Appeal.
Keep your pennies coming for appeal
THE QUEEN’S Diamond Jubilee weekend is just around the corner and the total in our Jubilee Jam Jars Appeal stands at an impressive £215 this week.
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Weather for Ripley
Friday 25 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 24 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: East
