News is obviously thin in Derby at the moment …

By tim, on April 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

I know it’s Bank Holiday Monday, but the Derby Evening Telegraph website really did ought to stop printing non-stories at the top of its pages. Today’s headline screams: Millions of developers’ contributions is unspent in Derby and for once the spin on the story is not that the Council is wasting taxpayer’s money, but that it isn’t spending it fast enough.

It’s not until you get to paragraph 11 (obviously way too far for the usual suspects who have commented on it in shock and outrage that the Council hasn’t spent the money yet) that the inconvenient truth of the . . . → Read More: News is obviously thin in Derby at the moment …

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We'd like to write credit crunch stories … but we can't!

By tim, on April 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Our friends in the dead tree press are still trying to write credit crunch stories, but it seems like they’ve had a tough time of it in Derby today. Isn’t it annoying when reality won’t match your editor’s expectations?

Four examples from the DET website today:

Footfall figures up 15% in city centre despite recession “… Footfall has increased 15% in St Peter’s Street, Iron Gate and Sadler Gate in the past year, defying the credit crunch …”

New bar’s the White place at the right time “… The new owners of a Derby bar, which has been closed for . . . → Read More: We'd like to write credit crunch stories … but we can't!

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Comic books aren't a victim of the credit crunch, after all …

By tim, on March 24th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

Good news, after all, for Forbidden Planet in Derby. Some members of my family will be very pleased indeed!

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Comic books are a victim of the credit crunch, after all …

By tim, on March 1st, 2009 at 5:52 pm

Sadly, Forbidden Planet is to close down on March 22nd in Derby. And this despite the manager’s best efforts, as noted in my blog entry of  29th January. Good luck to all concerned for the future.

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Eagle Market trade ‘never been so quiet’ (with audio)

By tim, on January 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Silly, I know – but I was amused by the Eagle Market  headline on the thisisderbyshire site today. I didn’t think there was much point in playing the audio …

While the headline may be amusing, the story it’s attached to certainly isn’t. Combined with the Derby Playhouse being closed and the increasing number of empty shop units, parts of town are now starting to resemble what I remember of Coventry in the early 1980′s.

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