Leabrooks’ butcher Owen Taylor wins top accolades at national craft butchery awards
Leabrooks butcher, Owen Taylor & Sons, has scooped national awards for its Steak & Ale and Pork Pies.
Both pies won their respective categories (Best Steak Pie and Best Pork Pie) at this year’s Smithfield Awards, organised by the Q Guild of Butchers and widely recognised as the meat trade’s most high profile and challenging product evaluation.
Five tourism businesses from the Peak District and Derbyshire have reached the finals of the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence where they will compete for the highest accolades in English tourism.
Great British Car Journey, Wildhive Callow Hall, The Blind Bull, Pure Outdoor and myGuidedWalks have been shortlisted for national glory after winning gold at the 2023 Peak District & Derbyshire Tourism Awards earlier this year.
A Derbyshire science company is helping put smiles on the faces of Derby children with complex needs, by supporting them to enjoy a grand day out by the seaside.
Matlock Storytelling Cafe presents:
Landscape & Longing
folktales and folklore from Northern Ireland
As told by
Olivia Armstrong
On Friday the 5th of May 2023 doors open at 7:00 PM
Stories and Music begin at 7:30 PM
In the Imperial Rooms, Imperial Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3NL
Olivia will be supported by our regular band Cage of Crows and our resident local tellers.
The two organisations responsible for leading on the promotion, marketing and development of the visitor economy in the Peak District, Derbyshire and Derby have formed a partnership that has been recognised by VisitEngland in a government programme to establish a new structure for the tourism industry.
Visit Peak District & Derbyshire and Visit Derby have come together as Visit Peak District, Derbyshire and Derby to receive official Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP) status from VisitEngland.
The highlight of the summer events calendar, The Darley Park Weekender is bringing our new show, Ultimate 90s, to the Bank Holiday weekend, Fri 25 - Sun 27 August with names such as Peter Andre, East 17 and FIVE.
Come on a guided tour and find out about the history of Derby. A Cathedral city in the centre of England, lying on the River Derwent, rich in history, culture and diversity. A story of Romans, Vikings and onto the 18th century Enlightenment, Derby became noted for fine ceramics, industry and engineering. A centre of the British railway industry, it is the home of iconic Rolls Royce and the Toyota car assembly plant. Derby located at the start of the UNESCO Derwent Valley World Heritage site, hosts the world’s first factory, now the Museum of Making.
Health and social care champions, Healthwatch Derbyshire marks 10th anniversary by highlighting difference the public have made to improve NHS and social care services.
Healthwatch Derbyshire, the county’s health and social care watchdog, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a plea to the public to continue having their say about services that affect their lives.
Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund through the ’10 Years of Walking Together’ project, we are delighted to share a short book and film which commemorate the 106 miners who died and also shares the story of the project and all those who contributed.
You can view an electronic copy of the book and watch the film here on The Story Mine website.
Since its launch in 2021 the Level Residency Lab, with support from Arts Council England, has supported 24 professional artists who either identify as disabled or whose work has access at its heart. The selected artists, all with ambitious ideas that strengthen Level’s charitable mission to ‘Celebrate the Art that Difference Makes’, will continue to explore contemporary practice in rural Derbyshire.
Now part of their year-round programme, Level are excited to introduce the new cohort of residency artists from across the England who have been awarded a residency: