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I had such a day last week although, on the face of it, a visit to Ilkeston Community Hospital was an unpromising start. Incidentally, why do public hospitals and schools put “community” in their titles? Who do we think they serve? And police cars bearing slogans like: “We fight crime.” That’s reassuring; I thought they were just delivering pizza.
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It’s all the cat’s fault.
Ower Annie, pushing nineteen, incontinent, spiteful, selectively blind, deaf, and slightly dotty, faddy, fussy but only on her own terms, with creaking joints, and the penchant for the hottest spot in the house which comes with old age, brought us a furry little present a couple of weeks ago – a tiny mouse.
As any cat owner will know, these feline pets bring in these little pests, drop them at your feet, whack ‘em round the head a couple of times, and dare them to move. Well, this one moved a bit too quickly for our geriatric, which shows such signs of wonky joints when she walks up the stairs we have been known to carry her. And her prey got away.
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But with comment boxes come dangers. The words within them must adhere to the libel and contempt laws. If they don't, it won't be anonymous posters who are chased by lawyers - it will be the Evening Telegraph.
They must also keep within the boundaries of taste which are adopted by the newspaper.
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That means these posts were considered potentially libellous, insulting or abusive.
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"Yeah, it's Shaun here. Who is this?"

"Shaun it's Alyson from Sporting Futures. We've noticed you have not actually signed up for the 10k yet and was wondering when you were going to do so?"

This was part of a telephone conversation I had on Friday with Alyson from Sporting Futures.

The revelation that I was yet to sign up for the actual race was a cause for some embarrassment in the editorial department at the Evening Telegraph.

"Are you trying to wimp out Jeppo? You are, aren't you? You're not going to do it," came the cries from my already-signed-up gloating colleagues.

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Stirred by whim-whams for ducks' bridles and pots calling kettles black, readers responded in style to my appeal for favourite colloquialisms.

Janette, of Burton, was among those with fond memories of our disappearing local dialect. "Well," she wrote, "a bin raidin wot yuh wrote and fun it quite interesting but ah got goo now and peg th'weshing out for it reens."

Scott, of Derby, nominated an old warning not to shed winter clothing too early in the year - "cast ne'er a clout 'til May is out".

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I’d never before heard of tree officers. It sounds a bit like that joke where a chap says he’s found him and his mates jobs as tree fellers and one of them says: “But there’re four of us … ”
But no, tree officers it is. Apparently most local authorities have the need for at least one arboricultural officer (as tree officers are sometime known).
Their duties usually involve managing trees in public ownership and assisting town planners in protecting suitable trees by legislation.
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There has been a petition bearing over 2,000 signatures against it. The Lib-Dem trio who represent the suburb on the City Council have been vociferous in their fight against it. Letters, decrying the idea and asking for answers, have poured into this very double-page platform for readers’ views. And every shop, business, Tom, Dick and Harriet has taken up the cudgels against the unfairness of it all.
So how come Derby City Council has ignored everybody’s views, and decided that Littleover is going to be awash with parking meters?
I don’t often get political in this column, preferring to leave that sort of thing to those with a greater knowledge of the inner workings of the local autho[more]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:6:"author";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:97:"By Lucy Orgill

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Here, I should declare an interest – or at least a long-held, deep-seated prejudice: generally speaking, there are few politicians, of any hue, that I’d trust to run so much as a whelk stall on Heanor market, never mind manage a multi-million pound civic budget.
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Eyelo…1
It’s been a traumatic few weeks, a time to dwell on and worry about the real possibility of losing my sight. And, dear reader, you’re going to share the drama whether you want to or not!
For a couple of months now, there has been impaired vision in my right eye, like the eyeball had been smeared with Vaseline, blobbed with make-up remover which was taking its time to shift, or I’d had too many late nights, even a surfeit of the grape or juniper juice – as if. A 40-minute visit to the optician at least put a name to it – macular degeneration – and a follow-up trip to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary eye clinic confirmed that. And it was progressing in my left eye, too.
Naturally, the scary[more]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:6:"author";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:97:"By Lucy Orgill

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Thus, we are delighted that the Newspaper Society has announced that we have been shortlisted in eight categories at its awards ceremony in April.

Five individuals have been recognised for their work in 2007.

They are health reporter Jade Beecroft (journalist of the year category), Chris Mallett (young reporter), Adam Gerrard (photographer of the year), Kate Burnett (sports photographer), and Derby County reporter Steve Nicholson (sports journalist).

We are delighted that our coverage of local soldiers in Afghanistan has also been praised. It had been a hard decision to se[more]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:6:"author";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:97:"By Neil White