Events Diary

Wednesday 30 November

The Derbyshire Debate will take the format of the BBC Question Time programme but will look at local issues and local concerns with questions from the audience.

The panel will consist of:

• Professor John Coyne, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby
• Mick Creedon, Chief Constable, Derby Constabulary
• Steve Hall, Editor, Derby Telegraph
• Councillor Philip Hickson, JP, Chairman of the Derbyshire Police Authority and Leader of Derby City Council
• Rt. Rev Dr Alastair Redfern
• Deborah Fern OBE – Local businesswoman and entrepreneur.The free event will be hosted by the University of Derby at our Kedleston Road site.

The event is free but those wishing to attend are asked to book a place via website www.derby.ac.uk/debate – where they can also submit a question which may be chosen as a topic for the evening – or phone Angela Drinkwater at the University on 01332 591046.

The Derbyshire Debate

Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary Mick Creedon will be taking part in Derbyshire’s very own version of Question Time when he becomes part of a panel at ‘The Derbyshire Debate’ at the University of Derby on November 30.

He’ll be joined on the panel by Chairman of Derbyshire Police Authority Philip Hickson, as well as other panellists with great local influence and knowledge.

Politics, the economy, the media and of course law and order will all be up for discussion in the ‘Debate’, which borrows the format from the long-running BBC TV programme but adds its own county flavour.

Audience questions will be put to them during the event at The Courtroom, at the University’s Kedleston Road site in Derby, from 7pm-9pm on Wednesday November 30.

The entire panel will consist of:

• Professor John Coyne, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby
• Mick Creedon, Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary
• Steve Hall, Editor of the Derby Telegraph
• Councillor Philip Hickson, Justice of the Peace, Chairman of Derbyshire Police Authority and leader of Derby City Council
• The Rt. Revd. Dr Alastair Redfern, the Bishop of Derby
• Deborah Fern OBE, Local Businesswoman

The panel chairman for the evening will be Ben Jackson, presenter of BBC Radio Leicester’s weekday Breakfast Show.

Professor Coyne said: “This will be a great opportunity to debate what the current economic, social and political context means for our county.

“It is also an opportunity to hear first-hand from people leading some of the key pillars of our community. I am looking forward to it but I know that we can all expect a challenge, which is a healthy position to be in.”

For further information about The Derbyshire Debate see website www.derby.ac.uk/debate

Thursday November 3rd

“Four Days Inside Guantanamo” is on at Quad, 1st – 3rd Nov.

http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/cinema-listings/pg59

Protest at Derby and Derbyshire Rail Forum Conference

Come to the protest against the Government’s decision to award the £1.4 billion Thameslink contract to German manufacturer Siemens rather than Bombardier.  Outside the Derby and Derbyshire Railway Users’ Forum conference on Thursday November 3rd, 9.00am, outside Derby Conference Centre, London Road/Ascot Drive roundabout, Derby DE24 8UX. Theresa Villiers, the Rail Minister, (Sir) Roy McNulty and David Higgins, Chief Executive of Network Rail will be speaking. They plan to cut public spending on Britain’s Railways by 30% by 2018.

The protest has been organised by the Bombardier Community Support Group and is being supported by RMT, TSSA, GMB and Derby Trades Council.

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Bombardier-supporters-plan-protest-rail/story-13589852-detail/story.html

http://www.derbyrailforum.org.uk/Events/Derby-Derbyshire-Rail-Forum-Annual-Conference—The-Challenge-of-Todays-Railway/3935

Saturday November 5th

Compassionate Derby at the Assembly Rooms, Derby

If you can help in running a DGP Stall then please let us know by contacting either:

Jane Temple on 01332 340989 or David Foster on 0791 4537589.

Duncan Kerr, the Green Party member on Bolsover council ( recently featured in Private Eye exposing Bolsover as a ‘Rotten Borough’ ) will hopefully be giving a talk.

The event is open to stallholders from 09:00 to 19:00 and to the public from 11:00 to 17:00.

For more detail see their website on :

http://89.200.143.239:1380/cd/about.html

Derby Uncut will be carrying out an action on 5th Nov. Once we’ve decided what we’re going to do, details will be on our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Derby-Uncut/214709908561930

Street theatre and other events highlighting the cuts will be taking place in the Market Place in Derby on the same day.

‘What with the vegan event too, it’s going to be a busy day on 5th Nov.’

Thu 10 Nov – Cameron’s Social Backlash – Talk/discussion, at the Gallery ‘Place of Welcome’, 35 Queen Street, Derby 7.30pm.