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Anthropology graduate who pursues artistic dream in the Peak District in lockdown has sell-out London and NYC shows with work fetching up to £30K

An anthropology graduate who spent the March 2020 lockdown at her family home in Derbyshire’s dramatic Peak District pursuing her dream of becoming an artist has won international acclaim with sell-out shows in London and New York where her pictures ...

28 Jul 2022 at 08:47

John Shuttleworth gig in Peak District cave halted after fan is trapped in tree

A comedy gig in a Peak District cave had to be abandoned on Thursday night after a concert-goer got trapped in a tree on his way to the venue prompting a rescue operation. The man had been walking to the John Shuttleworth performance at Peak Cavern ...

20 May 2022 at 19:46

Travel

These might just be the coolest new treehouses in the UK

“Hold on,” the driver warns as I scramble on to the back of a golf buggy for a ride up a gently sloping hillside into the woodland behind Callow Hall Hotel. “I was once carrying a couple of elderly women and one nearly slipped off. They still came ...

23 May 2022 at 10:00

Five landscape-scale nature projects from city edges to wetlands announced

Up to 99,000 hectares of land in England, from city fringes to wetlands, will be focused on supporting wildlife in five major “nature recovery” projects, the Government said. The five landscape-scale projects in the West Midlands, Cambridgeshire, ...

26 May 2022 at 01:01

Ramblers to recreate 1932 protest over countryside access for people of colour

A group of ramblers will recreate a 90-year-old protest on Sunday to argue the UK Government is doing “nowhere near enough” to improve access to the countryside for people of colour. The Right to Roam campaign is celebrating the 90th anniversary ...

23 Apr 2022 at 03:55

Hundreds recreate 1932 demo over ‘barrier’ to countryside for people of colour

Hundreds of people have recreated a 1932 protest calling for the “massive barrier “to the countryside for people of colour to end. The Right to Roam campaign is celebrating the 90th anniversary of when hundreds of activists trespassed on Kinder ...

24 Apr 2022 at 19:25

Travel

230 years in the making, a new hotel is putting spa town Buxton on the wellness map

Ahead of me, the road ripples up and down like a wave has washed through the landscape, the white line in the middle of the asphalt pointing precariously at the sky before it literally falls off a cliff. This surreal sight, which could have ...

30 Mar 2022 at 09:55

Mountain hare populations in Peak District higher than thought, count suggests

The mountain hare population in the Peak District could be much larger than previously estimated, new night-time surveying suggests. Initial results of a count using a methodology developed in Scotland indicate the population densities of ...

09 Feb 2022 at 01:25

National Trust celebrates good breeding year for hen harriers in Peak District

The National Trust has had its most successful breeding year for rare hen harriers in the Peak District for more than a decade. The charity said seven youngsters have successfully fledged from multiple nests on National Trust land in the ...

23 Aug 2022 at 09:20

Kelvin Fletcher’s wife tells of 5am hospital dash before giving birth

Kelvin Fletcher’s wife Liz has revealed she had a 5am hospital dash before giving birth to twin boys. The actress and voiceover artist, who married the former Emmerdale star in 2015, said she had feared Kelvin might not make it to her ...

20 Jun 2022 at 01:01

Cyclist completes 960-mile ride to remember friends who died from MND

A man has completed his challenge to ride through destinations across Britain with “Ness” in the name, dubbed The Great Ness Ride, to remember friends who lost their lives to motor neurone disease (MND). Pete Hawkins, from Tideswell ...

08 Jul 2023 at 10:13

Derbyshire woman walks 1,000 miles across 10 English national parks in 10 weeks

A Derbyshire woman has raised almost £10,000 by walking 1,000 miles across all 10 of England’s national parks in 10 weeks. Jen Lowthrop began the challenge on August 19 in Northumberland and finished the feat in the Peak District ...

31 Oct 2023 at 15:40

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