Tom Wins Strictly, It's Job Woe but the Earth Really Moves ; Gold, Silver and Bronze May Have Been the Order of the Day at the Olympic Games in Beijing but, Elsewhere, Resources Were Slowly Being Drained by the Credit Crunch. In Derbyshire, Successful Derby Evening Telegraph Campaigns, Tragic Incidents and the Derby Playhouse and Hippodrome Sagas Dominated the Headlines. Caroline Jones Looks Back at the Biggest Local and National Stories of 2008.

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JANUARY US company General Sports and Entertainment announces its Pounds 50m takeover of Derby County. The club's new board includes Rams chairman Andy Appleby, club president and chief executive Tom Glick and chairman of football Adam Pearson.

Rolls-Royce plans to ask its Derby workers to take voluntary redundancy after announcing it is to axe 2,300 jobs, while Derby City Council decide to close Mickleover care home Bramblebrook House. The decision sparks a fierce two-year battle.

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Tom Wins Strictly, It's Job Woe but the Earth Really Moves ; Gold, Silver and Bronze May Have Been the Order of the Day at the Olympic Games in Beijing but, Elsewhere, Resources Were Slowly Being Drained by the Credit Crunch. In Derbyshire, Successful Derby Evening Telegraph Campaigns, Tragic Incidents and the Derby Playhouse and Hippodrome Sagas Dominated the Headlines. Caroline Jones Looks Back at the Biggest Local and National Stories of 2008.

The burnt body of 18-year-old Katie Sisson is found in a disused outbuilding opposite her home in West Hallam, while a man is injured after a shot is fired into the window of a house in Flamstead Street, Allenton. It is later revealed to be a gangrelated incident.

Five men are found guilty of Britain's biggest cash robbery after stealing Pounds 53m from the Securitas depot in Kent in 2006, while Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first men to climb Mount Everest, dies aged 88.

FEBRUARY THE biggest earthquake to hit Britain in 24 yea...

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