The achievements of exceptional Chesterfield College students, apprentices and local employers were celebrated at an awards ceremony at the Casa Hotel. The annual celebration event recognises those who go above and beyond to develop their own skills or the skills of the local workforce.
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Yorkshire and North Derbyshire’s leading accountancy firm BHP has added to its ever-growing tax department after taking on chartered tax advisor Peter Dobson.
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A rallying call has been issued to find the best community champions and honour them at a glitzy awards ceremony.
Read more >The University of Derby, which has a campus in Chesterfield, has risen three places in The Guardian University Guide from 29th to 26th place – its highest ever ranking.
Read more >Peak FM’s popular mid-morning show presenter, Craig Bailey, has been announced as the host of this year’s Chesterfield Retail Awards.
Read more >A record number of 2,236 people are currently employed at Markham Vale, an increase of almost 600 new jobs over the past twelve months.
Read more >Local hospice charity and Chesterfield Champion, Ashgate Hospicecare, who cover the North Derbyshire area, will be celebrating the difference volunteers make to their organisation and thanking them for all their time and dedication during this year’s Volunteers’ Week, which runs from 1 – 7 June.
Read more >Chesterfield Theatres have announced that star of CBeebies Waffle the Wonder Dog, Andrea Valls, will join the cast of this year’s traditional family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, at the Pomegranate Theatre
Read more >Skills, recruitment and marketing were top of the agenda for the brand-new Chesterfield Food and Drink Forum, which has been launched by Destination Chesterfield.
Read more >Following the refurbishment and letting of the ground floor to Loungers by PDR Construction, the upper floors were marketed with the benefit of a planning consent to convert the upper parts into 10 high quality apartments.
Read more >Eight new life-size steel figures have been unveiled as part of a memorial to miners who lost their lives at Markham Colliery marking the halfway point in the project.
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