Derbyshire Times news bulletin 21st November

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

Transcript

00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.

00:03Homes could be built in a former Derbyshire pub car park,

00:07with the pub itself scheduled to become apartments.

00:10The plans from C13 Estates Ltd would see nine homes built in the former car park

00:15of the Country Park Tavern in Old Coppice Side Marple, next to Shipley Country Park.

00:20Erewash Borough Council will make a decision on the plans in the next few months.

00:24Earlier this month, the Council approved plans from RBSL Developments

00:28to turn the pub itself, which closed more than 10 years ago, into nine apartments.

00:33Both sets of plans would erase a scheme approved in 2019

00:37to convert the pub into a children's home

00:39and build four houses for use by older children in the pub car park.

00:45A Harry Potter first edition, bought for a tenner nearly 30 years ago by a Derbyshire mum

00:50after watching Blue Peter, could now sell at auction for £50,000.

00:54Christine McCulloch, 64, was watching J.K. Rowling being interviewed about her new book

00:59on the BBC children's show in 1997.

01:02The author mentioned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

01:05was proving popular with boys and girls,

01:08so Christine snapped up a copy for her son Adam.

01:11She paid around £10 at a bookshop in Kenilworth

01:14during a holiday to Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon.

01:16But little did she know, she had bought her seven-year-old son

01:19what would become one of the most valuable books in the world.

01:22The first edition is one of only 500 hardback copies published

01:26in the first ever hardback print run in 1997

01:29and is among the rarest and most sought after by Harry Potter fans.

01:33Despite having once languished in a cupboard under the stairs,

01:36just like Harry Potter himself for several years in Chesterfield,

01:39it could now fetch between £30,000 and £50,000

01:42when it goes under the hammer on November 27th.