Derbyshire Times news bulletin 1st February

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

Transcript

00:00 Here's today's Derbyshire Times Video Bulletin.

00:03 Chesterfield Council's Leisure Chief has said that the local authority is reviewing

00:07 the future use of a number of key community buildings in an effort to save hundreds of

00:12 thousands of pounds as it battles to balance an estimated £4 million budget deficit.

00:17 Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing Director Ian Waller said the review does not necessarily

00:22 mean closing buildings, but it could result in new ways of running them.

00:26 The review involves an examination of costs relating to Haslam Village Hall, the Assembly

00:31 Rooms, Revolution House, the Winding Wheel Theatre, the Visitor Information Centre and

00:36 Staveley's Healthy Living Centre, as well as sports centre operations and how savings

00:41 might be introduced with more community support with the maintenance and running of properties.

00:46 The Council, like many other struggling local authorities, has blamed uncertainty over reduced

00:51 government funding, rising inflation, the cost of living crisis, rising demands and

00:56 the impact of Covid-19 for its current financial plight.

01:02 A popular Chesterfield pub on Chatsworth Road has finally reopened under a new name.

01:07 The Mile at Brampton welcomed its first customers at the premises on Chatsworth Road.

01:11 The pub, which has a 160-year-old history, previously had been known as the Dizzy Duck

01:15 and the Old Grouse Inn, but closed permanently in August after it was sold to the Yorkshire

01:19 Pub Stuff.

01:21 The company invested almost £150,000 in the pub refurbishment and the venue was set to

01:26 open under the new name at the end of October, but just the day before the official reopening

01:30 the building was flooded due to heavy rain brought by Storm Bobette.

01:34 Gary Assell, who is director of Yorkshire Pub Stuff and the new owner of the Mile said,

01:38 "We'd just done a massive refurb on the site and were getting ready to reopen, but

01:42 we were flooded the day before.

01:44 Everything was brand new inside and we had to rip it out and start all over."

01:48 But after investing another £68,000 and two months of hard work to clear up the damage,

01:53 the Mile at Brampton has finally reopened.

01:56 The site has been a beer house since at least 1862 and was leased to Brampton Brewery around

02:00 1870 before being bought out by William Stones Brewery of Sheffield.