Chesterfield celebrates ten years of dance
Saturday 11 September will see Chesterfield’s New Square Arena explode with an amazing display of dance styles as the annual Day of Dance takes place.
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Chesterfield Bank Holiday Fun
Visit Chesterfield Town Centre on August Bank Holiday Monday for music, comedy and a whole host of fun. Walkabout characters will entertain the children in Chesterfield’s main market square including Maynard Flip Flap and his incredible ‘Man in a Box’ routine and ‘What a Palaver’ with their madcap fun and comedy routines.
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Advantage – Queen’s Park Tennis Courts
Budding tennis players can now take advantage of the recently refurbished tennis courts at Queen’s Park Annexe in Chesterfield. The £20,000 facelift includes a new macadam surface with coloured court markings, drainage, new tennis posts and nets and repairs to fencing.
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China Comes to Chesterfield
The Pomegranate Theatre welcomes Aladdin to Chesterfield this Christmas, along with a host of comedy, drama, ballet and big name stars. Pick up a copy of the new look Pomegranate Theatre and Winding Wheel programme to find out just what’s on offer.
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Free Summer Swimming in Chesterfield
Chesterfield Borough Council has decided to continue with its free swimming initiative for the summer months, despite the removal of government funding for the scheme. The funding of the Free Swim scheme, which is open to those aged 16 and under or 60 and over, will finish on 31st July but with the school summer holidays beginning next week, the Council felt it unfair that thousands of children and older people should miss out on their free swims.
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Fast food outlet ordered to employ door staff
A Chesterfield town centre take-away has been ordered to employ a Security Industry Authority (SIA) registered door supervisor at its premises each Friday and Saturday night as one of six new conditions added to its licence by the Borough’s Licensing Committee.
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Printability partner festival again for 2010
Chesterfield Arts and Market Festival returns in October Half Term for its 7th year. The annual event will run from Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 October 2010. The Festival offers a varied programme of entertainment for visitors and local people. Chesterfield Borough Council is proud to announce that for the third year running, local company Printability has signed up as the main Festival sponsor.
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£500k: The high price of litter
Chesterfield Borough Council is getting behind Keep Britain Tidy’s campaign to clean up England’s streets and save the country more than £3/4 billion pounds a year.
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Chesterfield Blooms for the Judges
Chesterfield underwent its annual judging process for the East Midlands in Bloom competition on Friday. Judges, Debbie Scott and Peter Benham, joined Cllr Ian Openshaw on a tour of the Borough and the town centre to view some of the town’s best floral assets.
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Time to ‘Break Out’ this summer
Young people in Chesterfield are being invited to take up one of the many sports, arts and cultural activities on offer from local organisations this summer. The holiday activity brochure - ‘Break Out’ – has been launched in Chesterfield and gives young people and parent's information and ideas on what do to over the six week summer holiday.
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