Derbyshire Times news bulletin 18th February 2025

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

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00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin. A 200-year-old rural Derbyshire pub which closed

00:06last year due to mounting losses could now be shut for good and become a home. The Black Swan pub in

00:13Worksworth Road at Idridgehay, a few miles west of Belper, closed last March when annual losses

00:19approached five-figure sums, an application from Tim Tomlinson says. Mr Tomlinson has applied to

00:25Amberbury Borough Council to convert the grade 2 listed pub, which was built in the early 19th

00:30century, into a house with the car park to become its garden. Documents followed with the application

00:36detail that the former owners of the pub had tried and failed to sell the venue as a going concern

00:41more than eight years ago. A decision will be made by the borough councillors in the next few months.

00:48Matlock Preschool Playgroup has been providing early years child care from their tin hut site

00:53for over 60 years. The well-loved building is now desperately in need of an upgrade but that

00:58doesn't come cheap and when three-year-old Dexter heard about this he wanted to help and there's

01:03only one thing he wanted to do, ride his bike. The charity nursery needs to raise £75,000 to upgrade

01:09the tin hut to make sure it's there for future generations and to try and raise some of the much

01:14needed funds Dexter is cycling the distance from the Grever Tin Mine Museum in Cornwall to the tin

01:19hut site in Matlock, a total of 522 kilometres which is over 400,000 pedal turns on his tiny

01:27Dexter-sized bike. To help his fundraising visit the JustGiving page Tin Mine to Tin Hut

01:33or see the Derbyshire Times website.