A RECORD breaking auction, national beer festival and pole dancing Mayor were all subjects of Derby Telegraph stories this week.
Tales included:
1 - Celebrity auctioneer James Lewis has presented ten charities with a combined total of £60,479, raised from his world record breaking 26 hour non-stop auction.
2 - A Derby Telegraph investigation found that Derby City Council may be able to sell some of its £64 million art collection, including a £1 million Lowry, despite their being leased to Derby Museums Trust until 2018, but the council says the pieces are too important to the city to sell them.
3 - Derby played host to the National Winter Ales Festival.
4 - Derby's Lucy Ward lost out on winning the 2014 BBC Folk Singer of the Year prize.
5 - Mayor of Derby Fareed Hussain helped with a world record attempt - in pole dancing.
6 - Teenager Luke Clarke, diagnosed with dyslexia, has inspired people across the world to write blogs about him after he used the internet to promote his passion for construction and design.
