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The newly restored Grove Street Lodge and "Grand Entrance" at the northern end of the Arboretum
The newly restored Grove Street Lodge and "Grand Entrance" at the northern end of the Arboretum

Derby Arboretum was the first public park in the country, and is thought to have been one of the inspirations for Central Park in New York. Although it suffered from neglect in the 1990s, it has recently undergone extensive improvement and renovation.

Markeaton Park is Derby's most used leisure facility.[10] It is the venue for the city council's annual Guy Fawkes Night firework display and contains its own light railway. Other major parks in the city include Allestree Park, Darley Park, Chaddesden Park, Alvaston Park, Normanton Park and Osmaston Park.

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Shopping and Nightlife

Marketplace in the centre
Marketplace in the centre

Shopping in Derby is divided into two main sections. The first is a recently opened Westfield shopping centre, controlled by the Westfield Group. The second is the older section known as the Cathedral Quarter. This area includes a range of boutiques and coffee shops and is focused around the Cathedral.

Many cities offer a thriving night life and Derby is no exception, dominated by a number of clubs and bars.

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Education

Like most of the UK, Derby operates a non-selective primary and secondary education system with no middle schools. Students attend infant and junior school (often in a combined primary school) before moving onto a comprehensive secondary school. Many secondaries also have sixth forms, allowing students to optionally continue their education by taking A Levels after the end of compulsory education at age 16. For those who want to stay in education but leave school, the large Derby College provides a number of post-16 courses.

Outside the state sector, there are four fee-paying independent schools. Derby Grammar School was founded in 1994 and was for boys only, until 2007, when they accepted girls into the sixth form for the first time, who aim to continue the work and traditions of the former Derby School, closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in England; Derby High School is for girls only at secondary level and for boys at primary level; and Ockbrook School is an independent school for girls aged 3-18 and boys aged 3-11. Lastly, Micheal House Steiner school can be found in Shipley, Heanor and caters for students from kindergarten age through to 16.

Derby also has a City Academy, Landau Forte College, partially state-funded, but also with business backing. It was one of fifteen City Technology Colleges set up by a Conservative government in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was converted into a City Academy in September 2006.

Derby also has a number of special needs establishments including Ivy House School (which takes pupils from nursery to sixth form) and The Light House which is a respite facility for children and parents.

The University of Derby is the city's university.

In 2003 the University of Nottingham opened a graduate entry medical school based in the Derby City hospital.

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Media

The Derby Evening Telegraph is the city's daily newspaper. In addition, two free newspapers, the Derby Trader and Derby Express, are delivered to households weekly. The daily freesheet 'Metro' is distributed in the city centre every morning, although this only has a very small amount of local content. Another local paper is the Derbyshire Times which is a weekly paper out every Thursday, however it mainly covers news from northern areas of the county. The Derby Echo is another, but this is only available to people who put their names down for it, and is out every week.

BBC Radio Derby, the BBC's award-winning local station for Derbyshire and East Staffordshire, is based on St. Helen's Street in the city and offers a mixture of local, national and international news, features, music and sports commentaries. It has around 150,000 weekly listeners and is available locally on 104.5 FM and 1116 AM, on 95.3 FM in North and Mid Derbyshire and on 96.0 FM in the Buxton area, as well as being streamed on the internet. The BBC in Derby also have their own local website for the area which provides news, travel and weather information, as well as other features. Since 1983 Radio Derby has organised the Money Mountain Appeal, an annual on-air charity auction which has raised more than £1 million for local causes. Since July 2007, the BBC has managed Big Screen Derby in the Market Place in conjunction with Derby City Council and the University of Derby, as part of the BBC Big Screen project.

RAM FM, the independent local radio station for Derbyshire and East Staffordshire, is also based in the city and offers a mixture of adult contemporary music and entertainment, with regular news and traffic bulletins. It broadcasts on 102.8 FM, and is also streamed on the internet, and is listened to by around 120,000 people each week. RAM FM is part of the Gcap One Network, and hosts many big local events, such as the Darley Park Concert, The City Bonfire and Fireworks, The Christmas Lights Switch On, and the Race For Life, raising money for Cancer Research UK.

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Trivia

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  • Derby has been named "Ghost capital of Britain" with over 1,000 paranormal sightings recorded in recent years. [9]
  • Bold Lane car park in Derby is one of the top ten most secure places in the world according to a study published in a science magazine. [10]
  • Dracula first showed in Derby.

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Notable people

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Twin cities

Along with Wigan, Derby is one of only two cities in the UK that exchanges envoys with one of its twin cities (Osnabrück).

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References

  1. ^ http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276826&c=derby&d=13&e=13&g=393297&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1206486754096&enc=1&dsFamilyId=1812
  2. ^ Derby Cathedral. You & Yesterday. Retrieved on 2008-02-04]].
  3. ^ Derby District: Total Population. A Vision of Britain Through Time. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
  4. ^ London Gazette: no. 47246, page 7656, 14 June 1977. Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
  5. ^ Queen was met with gifts, flowers and some groans. The Times. July 29, 1977
  6. ^ The Local Government Commission for England (June 2001). Periodic electoral review of Derby: Final recommendations for ward boundaries in Derby. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
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  8. ^ Peregrine Project. Derby Council website. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  9. ^ Westfield Derby - About. westfieldderby.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
  10. ^ Markeaton Today BBC.co.uk Accessed August 29, 2007 (2007-08-29)

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