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NEW LOOK MEDICAL CENTRE TAKING SHAPE To meet the increasing Phase 1: up to- May 2010 This will enable the demand for GP based The car park has been refurbishment of the nurse specialist clinics and services extended to enable building treatment rooms. and in preparation for work to progress without Phase Four becoming a training practice undue disruption to parking The existing plastic atrium roof from August this year facilities. will be replaced with a glass Appletree Medical Practice is A single storey extension at the Phase 2: Up to May and slate roof. carrying out a four-phase back of the surgery will consist A new centrally positioned A clinical store and sluice extension to its premises off of new consulting rooms, entrance with automatic sliding room will be created with an Town Street, Duffield. providing valuable extra space doors will be created. improved waiting area. “It is an exciting time of to allow the accommodation of The new extension will be The doctors would like to change. We have been in our opened up with the wall being thank patients for their two trainee GP doctors as well current premises for 11 years knocked through and reception cooperation and whilst the as the existing services and are rapidly outgrowing our will be repositioned onto the building work takes place. existing facilities,” said a including physiotherapy, south side of the building. The upheaval will be Practice spokesperson. counselling, phlebotomy, Phase Three: May - July The worthwhile, providing better The building work forms four midwifery, orthopaedic, and consulting rooms in the new facilities for all in the near main phases: general surgery. extension will be ready for use. future. WHY BUY FROM US? 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Contacts: Barrie & Diana Eccleston (01332) 841948 E-mail: [email protected] www.duffieldscene.co.uk e-mail your letters if you wish Vyacheslav (Slava) His programme includes: Sidorenko has certainly lived Beethoven - Piano Sonata no up to the forecast by critics 23 in F major, Appassionata. that he would make a major Schubert - Impromptus no 1 impact. in C minor, D899Et mo 3 in Music at Duffield were B flat major. D395. delighted the Northern College Schoenberg - Six Little of Music invited Slava to play Piano Pieces, op 19. at the closing concert of the Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no season at Ecclesbourne School 8 in B flat major, op 84. Hall on Saturday April 24th Tickets available from John (7.30pm). Norreys 01332 841503. ELECTRICIAN / HANDYMAN Duffield based Castle Computing Why use several people when one will suffice? 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Venue: The Ecclesbourne School, Duffield, Community Outing to Summer term will begin Date:Saturday 24th April 2010 Time :7.30 - 12.30 Bakewell. Thursday 22nd April. …Late Bar and Hot Food available…. Depart Chapel Street 10am, For more information, call For further information: 01332 842119 / 843213 return by 3pm. Time to Lynda 840821. or 07955262430 browse around the shops, discuss a new play. Fond reminiscence turns to have lunch, stroll through the Weds 12th May to Sat 15th A clever and entertaining more surprising revelations town, or by the river. Cost May 2010, 7.45pm start comedy! £6.00. Call Lynda 840821. when their elder brother A Respectable Funeral, a Quarndon Amateur unexpectedly appears. plus Dramatic Society present a comedy in which characters Wed April 21st Soup and two other one-act plays, all set of four one-act gradually emerge along with in one show. tickets: £6 Dessert lunch at Emmanuel comedies: skeletons in the cupboard. Community Church 12:30. 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