Opinion

You may have noticed I get angry about things which don’t matter in the main.

Wife’s sister come round other day. O were on ’er own on account of ’er ’usband bein’ dead. Mind, it were rate sad. Shid sent ’im up garden to cut a cabbage and ’e just dade. I said that were awful and what did o do. ’pparently shae oppened a tin o’ peas.

I bought a pair of trainers from a private seller on an online marketplace. The advert said they were Asics but when they arrived the branding said Basics. They are clearly not what was advertised and they are terrible quality. Do I have any rights? What can I do?

Most people know that councils have far less money to spend than they used to – but did you know that Derbyshire is facing an additional problem?

A few weeks ago I revealed that I had been test driving several cars because I was bored with my latest runaround.

Did you know that tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the world? Yes, the world. I doubt it would be legal if it were to be released onto the market today, writes John Sargeant, chairman of Community Pharmacy Derbyshire.

With the new season of hit TV series Game of Thrones soon to return after a two-year absence, many enthusiasts have spent hours attempting to predict how the epic drama could end - even drawing their conclusions from real-life history.

Chairman of Toyota’s European operations Didier Leroy told the Financial Times that a no-deal Brexit would make it “extremely complicated” to build new models at its British plants.

Mobile phones and iPads aside, it doesn’t seem like we have advanced too much over the past decade. Let’s face it, we aren’t living in the fantasy world that Marty McFly visited in ‘Back to the Future’. There may be no flying cars or holographic waiters as of yet, but compared to when I was a child, technology is advancing at a scarily fast pace, writes Abbie Dodson.

So, crime is going up according to the latest figures.

Chesterfield Borough Council announced recently that more new building works will begin in March, taking a year to complete and transforming the existing donut car park in Chesterfield town centre into an IT business park development.

Many of us are aware that since the 1930s around 97% of wildflower meadows have disappeared due to intensive agriculture and development, writes Stephen Plant who is a member of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

With the funding situation in some schools as it is, I was not completely surprised to read that an academy chain in the south of the country was looking for volunteers to fill roles usually reserved for paid employees, writes Mark Cottingham, principal of Shirebrook Academy.

Naturally, as a therapist I have always been a proponent of people disclosing and feeling comfortable enough to speak out about their emotional anguish.

In Western, contemporary UK society we are beginning to see a decrease in the stigma attached to mental illness, writes Jason Hanson.

Every day I see the difference further education makes which is what drives me to keep championing the need to stop the funding cuts that are affecting it so deeply. When I see others with the same drive it makes me hopeful that this vital part of our education system will continue for future generations, writes Julie Richards, principal of Chesterfield College.

Who would have thought, back in 2016 as we were all being asked what we should do about the European Union, just under three years later we’d find ourselves where we are now, writes Steve N Allen, comedian and star of BBC2’s The Mash Report.

January is the time when we think about what we want to do in the coming 12 months. As North East Derbyshire’s MP, that is certainly what I have been thinking about.

It’s one of Britain’s UFO hotspots - even attracting the interest of a Hollywood producer.