A Year Marked by Job Losses, Fire Tragedies, Murders...And a Royal Wedding ; Four Children Die in a House Fire, Train-Maker Bombardier Misses Out On a Pounds 1.4 Billion Contract and the County Suffers Thousands of Job Losses. Caroline Jones Looks Back at 2011.

Derby Evening Telegraph › December 31, 2011

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JANUARY The Royal Derby Hospital is put on its highest alert possible as flu hits Derbyshire. Linda Parkes, 59, dies following a fire at her home in Wellington Street, Long Eaton, with firefighters severely hampered by rubbish in the property.

City councillors decide to scrap controversial bus lanes in Kedleston Road and Duffield Road. The saga costs taxpayers Pounds 500,000.

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A Year Marked by Job Losses, Fire Tragedies, Murders...And a Royal Wedding ; Four Children Die in a House Fire, Train-Maker Bombardier Misses Out On a Pounds 1.4 Billion Contract and the County Suffers Thousands of Job Losses. Caroline Jones Looks Back at 2011.

The children of hairdresser Rachael Henson - Tommy, nine, Alisha, six, Rocco, four, and Appolonia, two - are killed in a fire in their home at Hulland Ward. An inquest in December reveals it could have been prevented if a fireguard and working smoke alarms had been present.

FEBRUARY Businesswoman Emma Bent is jailed for eight months after running Peak Pet Cremations illegally from her Heage home and pleading guilty to 23 ...

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