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BREASTON MAN TRAPPED IN U-BEND
In the small Derbyshire village of Breaston, lives a person with whom we can have very great sympathy, a downtrodden resident who becomes both a victim and a hero, fighting for his, and, by default, the rights, of all of us.

SELLING ILLEGAL DVDs - IS NOT ILLEGAL
People who sell DVDs and videos illegally, including pornography to children, cannot be prosecuted because of a legislative blunder dating back 25 years.

LINK ROAD
A link road between the new A6 bypass and Derby's Wilmorton area is being considered in a bid to cut congestion in Alvaston.

WOMAN EATS BANANA WITHOUT FEELING SELF CONSCIOUS
Susan Bradshaw managed to eat the fruit and leave the bar without blushing, or trying to hide behind a magazine.

BOOK OF PHONE NUMBERS LEFT ON DOORSTEP
A resident found a book containing the names and telephone numbers of hundreds of thousands of people ‘literally left on his doorstep’.

ROYAL SCANDALS
Queen Elizabeth II reached her 50th jubilee with her dignity intact, but her reign has been punctuated by a series of scandals that have beset her family and entourage.

EDDIE 'THE EAGLE' EDWARDS
With his Coke-bottle glasses, for Britain's only ski jumper, Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, former plasterer, just landing safely was victory enough.

DERBY - CITY OF PUBS
This is a city of pubs and the surest way to become an honorary Derby citizen is to go on a pub crawl.

POLICE STATE
No one has been listening, not the state, the police, the media and certainly not the judiciary or legal profession. Not even a defence lawyer.

CAR SPIES
Cars will spy on each other to catch drivers trying to evade road tolls under a scheme being proposed to enforce nationwide congestion charging.

YOB-CAM
The People newspaper parked a car in Britain's ASBO capital. After 47 mins a thief spots it, 53 mins the contents are stolen and 59 mins the car is hot-wired and nicked.

COUNCIL PENSION BLACK-HOLE
A £620m black hole has opened up in the main Derbyshire council employees' pension fund, and tax payers will have to foot some of the bill.

SCHOOL FUNDS
There has been a storm of protest nationally from head teachers saying they have not been given enough money to run their schools.

RAT RUN
Drivers regularly use Albany Road as a short-cut from Kingsway to Uttoxeter New Road, but Derby City Council is to ban traffic.

ON-LINE SHOPPING
Online supermarket shopping could be the perfect solution to uncontrollable trolleys, long checkout queues and heavy shopping bags, but...

SHOPPING TROLLEY
A shopper is boycotting a supermarket over their unruly shopping trolleys.

SOON TO BE HOMELESS
A mother-of-two is to be served a possession notice forcing her out of the home she was told by the council to 'squat' in.

PARKING CONCERNS
People living near a Derby hospital have won a five-year battle to rid their streets of parked cars.

CHEWING GUM
Derby South MP Mrs Beckett has come up with a list of ideas for improving the quality of life in towns and cities across the UK by making chewing gum harder to buy.

ELVASTON CASTLE
A meeting held to discuss the future of Elvaston Castle produced confusion and disappointment.

POLICE PRIORITIES
There should be more effort on the part of police officers generally to ensure they get their priorities in order and retain the respect of at least a small section of the community.

ARE YOU NORMAL?
How far would you go for £10 million? 25% would abandon their friends and family, and 7% would murder.

YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...
A sexy babe catches your fancy and your pacemaker opens the garage door.

ZERO TOLERANCE
The principal behind Zero Tolerance is that any crime or misdemeanour no matter how small, must be pursued, prosecuted and the offender punished.

CUSTOMER SERVICE?
Two customers in dispute with Powerhouse regarding products they bought from its Kingsway store.

LEGISLATION FOR PROFIT
A term to describe a situation whereby an authority or private organisation intentially creates a 'Barrier to Appeal' in such a way as to allow the organisation to "Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage by Perverting the Judicial System", over clients and customers.

ILLEGAL PROFITEERING IN BANKING
There is substantial evidence that “Illegal Profiteering” exists in the banking industry which could be argued as "Theft".

SALE ORDERS
Businesses which block a £200m plan to redevelop Derby's Eagle Centre could be forced to sell to the city council. The council is considering ordering the sale of all the land needed for the work to go ahead.

TAXI LICENSING RULES
Councillors are considering a potential u-turn over taxi licensing rules for people carriers. The city council's licensing and appeals committee are to decide whether or not to approve a new set of conditions for private hire vehicles.

GARDEN GANGSTER
Graham Ellison claimed his possessions were being stolen after council workers and bailiffs moved into his Alvaston home. He was arrested for ignoring a court order to tidy his garden - and jailed for four months.

UNTIDY GARDEN
When Gillian Condon moved into her council house in the summer of 2002, she was told that the overgrown garden full of rubbish would soon be cleared.

AN EARTHQUAKE HITS DERBY
An earthquake hit Derby on September 23, 2002. The epicentre was Chaddesden.

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth.

SOCIAL SERVICES
Derby Social Services believes £16 a week is enough for a disabled paraplegic to live on.

LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE AGREEMENT
Derby City Council pledged to deliver extra improvements in key services to local people.

PLAYING FAIR
To be licensed by the council, taxis have to undergo a test similar to the standard MoT test, but more rigorous, every 12 months. But now this status has been taken away from Walpole Motors.

PRIDE PARK
City Challenge was one of the biggest tests ever faced by councillors and officials in Derby. This included transforming contaminated wasteland which dwarfed the size of the city centre.

SWERF
A waste to energy plant which Derby City Council wants to see built in Sinfin has been hailed as a solution to the waste problem. But residents and environmentalists are opposed to the Swerf technology.

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