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Here's today's bulletin, with news of how an innovative rail training scheme is steaming ahead in Chesterfield
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00:00Yesterday's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.
00:03Chesterfield Borough Council's Innovative Railway Training Centre project
00:07is moving full steam ahead as part of the £25 million Stavely Deal
00:11regeneration scheme
00:12after the final funding elements were agreed. The council considered the plans
00:17for the Derbyshire Rail Industry Innovation Vehicle Centre
00:20next to the historic Barrow Hill Roundhouse during confidential stages of
00:24cabinet and full council meetings.
00:26Councillors have agreed the final elements of the funding package for the
00:29drive project
00:30and agreed to appoint Stepnell Ltd as the contractor to oversee the work.
00:35Councillor Tricia Gilbey who is the council leader and vice chairperson of
00:39the Stavely Town Deal Board said
00:40this is a really exciting landmark project that will create new opportunities
00:45for local people
00:46to access high-quality skills and jobs while bolstering Chesterfield's position
00:50as a leading destination for future innovation and investment
00:53in the rail sector. An historic Derbyshire stately home is celebrating a century on
01:00film
01:00as the backdrop for movies going back a hundred years. Derbyshire's 900 year old
01:05Haddon Hall
01:06the family home of Lord and Lady Edward Manners is marking a celluroid century.
01:11Most recently the uniquely preserved Elizabethan Hall
01:14was featured as one of the main locations in BBC's Wolf Hall, The Mirror
01:18and The Light.
01:19Haddon first featured on film in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
01:23the 1924 silent movie starring Mary Pickford.
01:26The film was actually shot in Hollywood but the sets were a detailed replica of
01:30Haddon's interiors
01:31and Mary Pickford who played Dorothy Vernon and Douglas Furbank
01:35her husband at the time, visited Haddon prior to filming to get a feel for the
01:38Hall's atmosphere.
01:40Since then Haddon Hall has featured in many of the world's favourite TV and films
01:44including The Princess Bride and no fewer than three different versions
01:48of Jane Eyre.

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