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The 17-year-old took on the more experienced light-welterweight champion, Adam Sircar of Buxton, on the One Nation Pegasus show at Pride Park Stadium and emerged a unanimous points winner.

This week the men Darren Hackett, 31, Pool Farm Road, in Acocks Green , Francis Gilsenan, 28, and Daniel Sheridan, 20, of Tyseley Lane, Tyseley , were jailed for a total of eleven years after admitting three counts of burglary at Birmingham Crown Court .

Out this week is a new full-length from The Black Dog. The Sheffield, England-based trio - Ken Downie, Martin Dust, Richard Dust - have been making smart, non-boring electronic music for ages.

Top, Reg Harrison with a picture of the 1946 FA Cup winning side. Left, Reg in his Rams kit.

EAST Midlands Ambulance Service has been penalised for missing one key target for a third year running but it hit another target for the second time in a row.

Pictured is Ilkeston author Patricia Spencer signing copies of her new book, My Box of Memories, at U Choose Smoothie Bar on Bath Street.

An Ilkeston woman with cerebral palsy who was told by doctors five years ago she might not walk again has completed a challenge of walking 2012 miles.

Police in Pinxton are reminding people about the responsible use of air weapons after a mother duck was injured after being hit with a pellet.

A Ladybrook man who was assaulted outside a Mansfield nightspot during Christmas last year says the head injury he sustained has changed his life forever.

Police and PCSO at the scene of an assault on Margetson Crescent Parson Cross Sheffield on Monday evening 20 May 2013 Image i 1 2 Paul David Drabble www.pauldaviddrabble.co.uk Police have charged a woman in her 40s with common assault after a disturbance on the street in Parson Cross, Sheffield.

Recently tenants attended a training session to help them get to grips with tenant scrutiny.

A six-month dispersal order was introduced in Killamarsh in February, giving police the right to split up groups congregating on the streets, and activities have been organised in a bid to keep teenagers out of trouble.

Valuable resources and rare habitats at Clumber Park are set to benefit from a 21,992 grant from Biffa Award.

A NEW 25,000 facility for youngsters in a South Derbyshire village has been officially opened and is already proving a big hit.

THE head teacher of Swadlincote's biggest school has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation by education chiefs, the Mail can reveal.

There is only one way to mark the first stirring of spring in Derbyshire - the dressing of the wells of course.

Multi million pound development plans for Ripley are set to come before planning board members in July, council officers have revealed.

A four-month project to redevelop and modernise the fitness facilities at the Belvedere Road site's physiotherapy department has allowed for work to make it 'brighter and more energy-efficient'. James Chadwick, Capital and Engineering Manager in the Estates Department, said: "The old gym had not been touched for at least 10 years.

THE Health Secretary's plans to improve the way doctors work has drawn a stinging response from GPs in Burton.

A SPATE of burglaries in Midway seems to have come to an end, following a police campaign to crack down on thefts in the area.