Jonathan Kazembe
Longdendale bypass
2009-10
Recycling
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Traci Lomas's application for renewal
of planning permission for 37 retirement flats, commercial, leisure and
retail units on land off Chapel Street (next to the new health centre)
will be heard by High Peak planning committee on Monday, March 22. |
 Tameside
General Hospital featured in BBC 1
television's Panorama
documentary on the scandal of hospitals assessing their own performance
- Trust
Us, We're an NHS Hospital - on Monday
(March 8).
You can see the programme here for
the next 12 months.
 Milton Pena,
the orthopaedic surgeon who raised concerns about standards of care
at Tameside in 2005 - and was disciplined by the hospital for speaking
out - is calling for a full, independent investigation, according to Amanda Crook in the Manchesting
Evening News.
He told the programme: "I have examples recently in my
orthopaedic ward where we had one qualified nurse left with 17
patients, many of them elderly and highly dependent."
 You can nominate Milton Pena for an 'Excellence in Care' award here.
Tameside General Hospital response to Panorama - BBC
Whistleblower surgeon makes
new Tameside Hospital plea - Manchester
Evening News
Senior consultant voices new fears at Tameside hospital - BBC
Background
here.
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Tameside Hospital is staging two events as part of Dying
Matters Awareness Week
(March 15 - 21) "to increase public awareness and raise the profile of
death, dying and bereavement issues". Details here. |
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 Rosie O'Grady
from High Street East received a certificate at an award ceremony in
London recently after completing 30 hours per week of voluntary work
over 45 weeks with the v-talent
programme. She has supervised activities in Manor Park with Derbyshire
Youth Service, helped set up a facility in Whitfield to help reduce
antisocial behaviour and worked with the Connexions careers service for
young people in Glossop.
Angela Smith MP,
Minister for the Third Sector, presenting the awards, said: "People
like Rosie are our future. Volunteering is good for those who volunteer
and good for our communities. I congratulate her on her award." |
 The Glossop Advertiser's column for under-18s now has a Facebook page here. There's also a guide to things for young people to do in Glossop here. And Derbyshire County Council has a guide to things toodoo. |
 Police are planning to hold a number of bike marking sessions
in Glossop during the next few months, as the warmer weather
approaches. This follows a successful campaign to mark personal
property in the area over the course of the last few weekends. |
Gamesley
Villa junior football club, founded in 2002,
which has 120 boys and girls
in training each week, is about to lose its pitch because the local
primary school - which owns it - has decided to turn it into a
community farm. The club needs a playing ground close to the estate,
but efforts to find a site have so far failed, even though it has won
five cup finals, a sportsmanship award and taken the coveted Player of
the Year trophy three times in the Tameside and District Junior League.
Club
chairman Peter Aldred
said the loss of the club would be a tragedy: "The club is crucial in
an area like this. There's so much potential for kids to go off the
rails. To some of these children, Villa is all they've got."
Liberal
Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate Alistair Stevens
has joined the campaign. Mr Stevens said: "This is a fantastic club and
it would be a
tragedy for the estate if it were to close." |
 A
nuclear bunker in Derbyshire has sold for
£20,600 in an online eBay auction,
according to the BBC.
The decommissioned Cold War bunker, built in 1959 into a field in the
Peak District, attracted 42 bids and hundreds of hits. There are more
details here.
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 City Life
magazine is running
a pub
of the year competition. You
can vote for your favourite Glossop pub here.
The Globe is leading; The Star and The Peels Arms also have four stars. |
Flipper's Gang won
the High
Peak Marathon 42-mile night time navigation
endurance challenge on Saturday (March 6) in 8 hours 52 minutes 12
seconds.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes,
who took
part in a team called 'Poles Apart', was later injured in a car crash
at
2.00pm on the A6 in Stockport, according to the BBC. |
Glossop North End's David Morris (left)
has been named the Vodkat League Player
of the Month for February. Details here. |
| Derbyshire
County Council plans to spend £126,000 in March
upgrading
pedestrian networks used to access 'key public transport
interchanges' and stops in Glossop. |
Glossop
Women's Aid, a unique small staffed charity
supporting women and
children who are experiencing the effects of domestic abuse, needs
new trustees
to replace key individuals who are moving on. The charity is looking
for women who are willing to
share the key governance tasks as part of a team.
Details from the board's advisor - email, text or phone: Rick Gwilt, rgwilt@onetel.net,
07970 177539. |
The
candidates
for the High Peak constituency in the general election, expected to be
held on Thursday, May 6,
are:
The count will
be held when the polls close at 10.00pm. (Some authorities are delaying
the count until the following day.)
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photograph
by Jim Lockwood / GNE
Garry Kharas of
Glossop North End produces a spectacular volley to make it 2-0 against
Flixton on Saturday
Glossop North End lost 3-1 to Runcorn Linnets away on Tuesday (March 9). They beat Flixton 5-1 at Surrey Street
on Saturday (March 6) and drew 2-2
against Padiham at home on Wednesday (March 3) and 1-1
against Runcorn
Linnets at home on Saturday, February 27.
But they lost 2-0
away to
Droylsden in the Manchester Premier Cup semi final on Monday,
March 1.
They play Formby away on Saturday, Match 13 at
3.00pm.
North End's fixtures
for March are here.
North End beat AFC
Liverpool 0-2
away in a Vodkat League Cup match on
Saturday, February 20. They play Winsford
United away in the quarter final on Tuesday, March 16 at
7.45pm.
North End's league match
against New Mills away on Monday, February 22, was postponed
because of a frozen pitch. It will now be held on Monday, April 19.
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 The Derbyshire Literature Festival
has a Mills and Chimneys
lyric writing
competition.
They are looking for the lyrics for a song inspired by the Derbyshire
landscape, places, people or history. Winning entries from two
age
categories - under 16 years and 16+ - will be developed and adapted
into a song by Derbyshire singer songwriter David Gibb.
Details here.
Closing date is Friday,
March 12.
 The Buxton
Poetry Competition has a theme of A Breath of Fresh Air
and is open to three age groups - children under 11, young people aged
12 - 18 and adults 19+. Cash prizes of £300,
£200 and
£100 in the open category, book tokens for children. Details here.
Closing date is Thursday,
April 1. |
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The 2nd
Battalion Mercian Regiment will march through
Glossop on Friday, March
12, leaving Glossop Brook Road at 10.30am. High Peak Mayor
Peter Kay
will take the salute in Norfolk Square before the parade moves to
Victoria Street, opposite the Municipal Buildings. There will be a
reception at Bradbury Community House in Market
Street. The regiment was given the freedom of the borough two years ago
in Buxton. |
| There's
an evening of
storytelling at the Partington
Theatre in Henry Street on Friday, March 12 at
7.30pm, sponsored by George Street Books. You'll be
very welcome to come to tell a story, read a poem - or just to come to
listen. |
| Bradbury Community House
in Market Street [SK13 8AR] has craft
fairs on Saturday,
March 13, June
19 and November
6 from 10.00am - 2.00pm. Admission is free and refreshments
will be available. Tables are bookable in advance at £8. For
more information call 01457
860007. |
 Chernobyl
Children's Project has a coffee morning at Central Methodist Church in Chapel
Street on Saturday,
March 13
from 12 noon. The charity provides recuperative holidays in the UK for
victims of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion from Belarus.
If you could
host a young mother and her child in Glossop for 10 days from Monday, July 19,
please call Mags Whiting
on 01457 865805. |
 RedRoom
Promotions presents Table with support from Lizzie
Nunnery
and Petty Thief at The Oakwood in High Street
West on Saturday,
March 13
at 8.30pm.
Manchester-based
six-piece Table are led by songwriter David O’Dowda,
who effortlessly combines different strands of modern folk music to
create something new and wonderful. They are currently touring their
first seven-inch, titled Songs
You Can Sing. After wowing the crowd
at RedRoom when they supported Homelife last season they had to get
them
back for a headline slot.
Details here.
Tickets £5 on 01457
857974 or here.
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The Lift Global Music Club
presents Rafiki
Jazz at The Globe, 144 High Street West, on Saturday, March 13
at 8.30pm.
Rafiki Jazz are the UK's fast-rising world music collective playing
tracks from their acclaimed debut album More Big Muzik from Over There!
As a big and diverse family of star African and Latin diaspora
musicians and outstanding singers and music-makers, they stretch out
together in an inspired fusion playing some gloriously ambitious
contemporary global dance music. Rafiki Jazz hail from a special place
over there! Where beatbox meets berimbau... and Brazil greets Banjul.
Details on Facebook.
Tickets £8.00 in advance from Rick on 01457 853821 or Stan on 01457 866357 or
£10.00 on the door. |
 Janice Wong is starting a six-week
specialist course
in pregnancy yoga
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street
on Sunday, March 14
at
10.30am. £33 pounds or £6.50 drop-in. Details here. |
| There
will be a Taizé
style service at Central Methodist Church in Chapel
street on Sunday, March
14 at 6.15pm. All welcome to an hour of music and quiet
meditation. |
 The Partington Players
present John Godber's
caravan site comedy Perfect Pitch,
directed by Nigel Taylor,
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street from Monday, March 15 to Saturday, March 20.
Details here. |
 The
Friends of Manor Park are running a competition
to design a new logo
with three categories - under 12, 12 - 18 and 18+. Send entries to Val Bowden, 3 Regent
Street, Glossop SK13 8QD by Saturday,
May 15. They meet at the Commercial Inn on Manor Park Road
on Wednesday, March 17. |
| Glossop Bowling Club
has a pre-season get
together at the North Road pavilion on Friday, March 19 at
8.00pm, followed by a quiz. Free.
There are a few entries left for the Kingsley Stafford Trophy singles
competition on Bank Holiday Monday,
May 3. Details of both from Jenny on 07756 183918. |
 Folk singer Jacob H James
plays The Oakwood in High Street West on
Friday, March
19 at 8.30pm. Support from Glossop's Helen Rose,
who will be making her live debut armed with just a guitar and a clutch
wonderful songs. £3. Details here. |
| Tameside Green Party
has a seven-mile sponsored
walk around Hollingworth Hall moor, passing Swineshaw reservoir and Walker Wood
reservoir, on Saturday,
March 20. Details from Jean Smee on 0161 304 8121. |
 Glossop musician Ben Stafford and DJ Lyam Bradley are
staging a fund-raiser
at The Moon and Sixpence in Bernard
Street on Saturday,
March 20 (with My
First Hello) and Friday,
April 9 (with eCat) for Ben
Dresner Barnes, who plans to climb Kilimanjaro in June for
the charity ChildReach - and needs to raise
£2,300. Suggested donation £1 or you can donate
online here. |
High Peak borough
council has three runs
for Sport
Relief in Manor Park on Sunday,
March
21. The action will start at 10.30am
with a one-mile run
suitable for people with disabilities and parents
with buggies. The fun run will be followed by three-mile and six-mile
races, both starting at 11.00am. Entry costs £5 for
adults (16 and over) or £2 for children. Family tickets for two adults and two children cost
£12. To sign up, visit www.sportrelief.com
and
click The Mile. Or enter on the day or by calling 020 7820
5555. |
The Empty Tomb
Glossop artist Ghislaine
Howard's exhibition, Stations of
the Cross / The Captive Figure, which has been
touring English cathedrals, is currently at Manchester
Cathedral.
The exhibition will form the backdrop for a performance of Bach's St John Passion
by Manchester Cathedral Choir with Manchester Baroque Orchestra
on Sunday, March 21
at 7.30pm.
Ghislaine will give a talk
about the evolution of the paintings on Thursday, May 13 at
7.30pm. Free.
The exhibition closes on Friday,
May 14. |
 Va Bene
Italian restaurant in Norfolk Street has singer Abigail Walker on Tuesday, March 23. |
| Glossopdale Community College
presents Joseph
and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Hall 1 on the
Talbot Road site on Wednesday,
Thursday
and Friday,
March 24 - 26.
Tickets from reception - adults £5.50,
children/concessions £4.00, family ticket
(2 adults 2 children) £16.00. |
The Glossop
Folk Train
leaves Manchester Piccadilly at 1848
(6.48pm) on the fourth
Thursday
of each month, with some of the best of the
region's folk musicians performing live on the train all the way
through Ashburys, Gorton, Guide Bridge, Flowery Field, Newton for Hyde,
Godley, Hattersley, Broadbottom and Dinting to Glossop.
Here
the action moves to Glossop
Labour Club
in Chapel
Street for liquid
refreshment and more live entertainment. Food can be ordered on the
train and the club is fully accessible to wheelchair users.
Return
is on the 2139 (9.39pm) train from Glossop, arriving into Piccadilly at
2212 (10.12pm).
There is no
charge
for the event - just the price of your ordinary train or Wayfarer
ticket.
The
performers on Thursday,
March 25,
will be Shake
the Roots, playing
roots music, country, blues, bluegrass and rock'n'roll. |
 The Oakwood in High Street West
presents Edinburgh
based experimental noise artists Usurper,
performing a special
one-off set of tantrums and free noise with disabled instruments, on Friday, March 26 at
8.30pm. £3.
The Oakwood will also be showing a collection of artwork by Usurper's Malcy Duff.
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 A group of Glossop knitters is
contributing to a world record attempt to create the world's biggest cardigan.
The Glossop Knitters are
holding a Craft Fair
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street
on Saturday, March 27
from 9.30am - 3.30pm. Details here. |
 The
Peak Film Society presents Kevin Macdonald's
2009
film State of Play
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street
on Saturday, March 27
at 7.30pm. American
political thriller based on the critically acclaimed six-part British
television serial State of Play,
which first aired on BBC 1 in 2003.
A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to
try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress. Stars Russell
Crowe, Ben
Affleck, and Rachel
McAdams. Certificate 12A.
Details here. |
 Derbyshire County Council
is backing the World Wildlife Fund's campaign
to get a billion people to switch their lights off for an hour from
8.30 - 9.30pm on Saturday,
March 27 and show how much they care about the effects of
climate change.
The council will be turning off the floodlights at its headquarters in
County Hall in Matlock to show support for Earth Hour.
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 The Lift Global Music Club
presents Kirsty
McGee and Hobo Pop Collective
at The Globe, 144 High Street West, on Saturday, March 27
at 8.30pm.
Kirsty McGee sprang out of the 'new acoustic' scene in late-nineties
Manchester alongside contemporaries like Elbow and I Am Kloot (she
briefly shared a label with both). Her 2002 debut saw her nominated for
a BBC Folk award, which she followed up with a further nomination for
her second album in 2004. She has worked with some of the best in the
UK folk scene, such as producer John Wood (Fairport Convention, Nick
Drake), Boo Hewerdine, Clive Gregson and Neil Macoll, and yet somehow
McGee has never fitted the folk bracket comfortably. Stylistically she
continues to defy categorisation. Details on Facebook.
Tickets £6.00 in advance from Rick on 01457 853821 or Stan on 01457 866357 or
£8.00 on the door. |
 Damien O'Kane plays The Oakwood in High Street West on
Saturday,
March 27 from 8.30pm. Just
back from a tour of Canada with Kate Rusby's backing band, this rising
star of the folk circuit is on his way to becoming a stalwart on the
scene. The banjo maestro has music in his blood, coming from a
Coleraine family where music was central to daily life. After
graduating with a degree in Folk and Traditional Music from Newcastle
University, he started gigging with the likes of Shona Kipling and
Flook. He was the only Northern Irish musician to be nominated for an
award at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007. Details on Facebook.
Tickets £5 available here. |
Belarusian junior folk ensemble Vesnitsa,
along with circus
group Belaya
Rus from Minsk, will be performing at Glossopdale
Community College on Tuesday,
March 30 at 7.30pm as
part of a joint project between Chernobyl
Children's Project UK and Chernobyl
Children's Lifeline. Vesnitsa has won numerous
competitions and has toured all over Eastern Europe.
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 The
Oakwood in High Street West presents Adam Donen
on Friday, April 2
from 8.30pm. Details here.
His new album Immortality
will be released on Monday,
March 1. £3. |
Derbyshire County Council
is consulting on a new draft
plan for
2010 - 2014. Details here.
You can see the draft plan here.
The
deadline for comments is Tuesday,
April 6
and the plan should be published by the end of
April.
Derbyshire
County Council is
also consulting on a waste
disposal plan.
Details here.
You can comment on their proposals here
until Friday,
April 9. |
 All Fall Down
presents Josephine
Oniyama at The Oakwood in High Street West on
Friday,
April 23 at 8.30pm. £3.
A singer-songwriter from Manchester with a stunning voice and
collection of brilliant songs that blend soulful vocals, jazzy rhythms
and Spector-influenced soundscapes.
"She's remarkable. An old soul singer in a beautiful young girl" - Guy
Garvey (Elbow) |
 Keep
High
Peak Green is objecting to a
proposed development at Cowdale
Quarry,
about 2 miles east of Buxton. They say: "The development amounts to an
industrial
abomination in a rural location and must be fought against and
refused." Details here.
You can see the planning application [HPK/2009/0723] here.
Save
Cowdale Quarry has organised a public meeting at
Buxton Methodist Church in Chapel Street [SK17 6HX] on Saturday, April 24
from 1.30 - 4.30pm. Details here.
Bad for Peak
– or great for economy?
- Buxton
Advertiser
Jobs hope in quarry plan - Buxton
Advertiser |
| The Derbyshire Aggregates Levy
Scheme has £227,360
available for community and
environmental projects. Details here.
Call the
Derbyshire Environmental Trust on 01629
538614 / 539182
or email det@derbyshire.gov.uk.
Closing date is Friday,
May 14. |
The
Lift Global Music Festival 2010, which was to
have been held from Friday,
May 14
to Sunday, May 16,
has been cancelled
because of the closure of Glossop Town Hall.
The opening concert on Friday,
May 14 - a specially commissioned
collaboration between legendary sax player Gilad Atzmon,
brilliant singer Sarah
Gillespie and the Glossopdale
Community College Swing Band - will still go ahead at Glossopdale
Community College.
The evening at the Town
Hall on Saturday,
May 15 was to have featured the legendary Adrian Sherwood
On U Sound System with Little Roy and Brother Culture
(another major
coup for The Lift!). They have kindly agreed to move this to later
in the year when we hope that the remedial work to the Town Hall will
have been completed.
The performances at The Globe on Sunday,
May 16 will also be rescheduled. Details here. |
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Glossop
artist Jean Hobson
has an exhibition
of paintings and drawings of Manchester at the City Inn, 1 Piccadilly Place,
Manchester [M1 3DG] from
until Monday,
May 31.
Local artist Jean Hobson is
inspired by change - City
Life |
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| Lord Chief Justice Judge
sentences Lady Gaga
for having an implausible name and a silly hairdo. |
Tom
Ritchie Sr
has
photographs of Glossop on flickr.
Mike
Sanders
has a
collection
of links to websites relating to Glossop here.
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