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Winter Dark Peak competition winners

13th December 2021

We have chosen TWO winners of a Dark Peak jacket in our arts competition. First up, with her seasonal landscape painting is competition winner Somayeh Rostami who will receive her Dark Peak jacket soon. We [Read more]

Dark Peak winner: Grimesthorpe Allotments poem

20th September 2021

A poem by Andrew Hodgson, winning entry in last issue’s Dark Peak jacket arts competition. On our allotment a small community meets with chances to grow Off our allotment fruit or veg the whole year [Read more]

Burngreave Academy dragon invasion

16th December 2019

Story and photos by Tim Neal On Tuesday 19th November, students at Astrea Academy came face-to-face with a lifesize, fire-breathing, paper dragon made from 1,200 A4 pieces of paper. Thirteen metres long, with a wingspan [Read more]

All aboard The Lucky Gordon

18th June 2018

Story and poem by Asea Abdulla | Photos by Rob Smith and Fran Belbin On the 19th of May me and people from the Pitsmoor community had a pirate party to celebrate the launch of [Read more]

Streets ahead way behind

4th December 2017

Streets Ahead way behind Roadworks at the end of Scott Road have been ongoing since July. What was originally meant to have been a six week job has now taken more than sixteen, causing significant [Read more]