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To advertise email info@voicemagazines.co.uk or call us on 01773 549 035 Printed by Newman Thomson and distributed to 5,000 homes in Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote. Disclaimer: No responsibility is accepted by Voice Magazines Limited for claims, errors or omissions made in advertisements appearing in this issue. All advertisers are accepted in good faith and we are not responsible for views expressed by contributor or other sources. Reproduction of the contents of this magazine is not To advertise please Emily on 01773 549 035 or 07891 639 638 3 permitted without the prior consent call of the publisher.

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Things to do STUDENT MUSICIAN CONTEST The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir are sponsoring a musician competition to be held on Saturday 27th April 2019 at The Strutts Centre in Belper.

There will be a prize of £400 for the winning student, a prize of £150 for the student in second place, and a third prize of £75.

The competition is open to all students resident and/or educated in Derbyshire who are in year 12 or 13 and it is expected that applicants will be at the standard of Grade 7 or above on their chosen instrument.

For more information

visit www.dalesmen.org.

All applications must be received by 6th April 2019

Marie Curie Daffodil Dash Marie Curie, the leading UK charity for people with terminal illness has teamed up with Virtual Runner UK to develop an exciting new challenge for March 2019.

The Daffodil Dash is a virtual challenge that requires participants to run or walk 28km throughout the month of March. Challengers can run, walk or even skip the 28km over a number of days, to help raise much needed funds for the charity.

ALFRETON & DISTRICT RAMBLERS CLUB Bring a drink and packed lunch.

Suitable footwear and clothing required.

New faces made welcome.

Contact either Dave on 07543 100 655 or Terry on 07891 517 057 for more information or visit our new website www.alfretonramblers.weebly.com

Sponsorship raised from the challenge will help Marie Curie to raise the 2.8 million pounds needed to fund Marie Curie research underway across the UK.

UPCOMING WALKS Sunday walks meet at 9:30am at Alfreton Library Car Park

It’s just £12 to enter the Daffodil Dash and 20% of each signup fee will be donated to Marie Curie with 100% of sponsorship coming to the charity.

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Things to do WE ARE BESS’ – EXHIBITION AT HARDWICK HALL Free entry, but normal admission charges apply.

Another chance to see the acclaimed exhibition ‘We are Bess’ which reveals a new side to Bess of Hardwick’s story through the voices and experiences of modern-day women. From household names to local Derbyshire women, the portraits of 16 modern women, taken by award-winning photographer Rachel Adams, sit alongside the Tudor portraits in the Long Gallery www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardwick-hall

Valentines Cruise at Chesterfield Canal Trust

South Normanton Gardeners Association upcoming events:

14th February 10am – 4pm To celebrate Valentine’s Day, our tripboat John Varley, will be doing a return trip along the full length of the canal in Derbyshire - 10 miles, 10 locks. It will start at Tapton Lock at 10 a.m. and go up St Helena’s before turning and going right down to Staveley Town Basin before returning to Tapton Lock at about 4 p.m. It will stop at Hollingwood Hub for a meal, included in the price.

Advance booking essential!

Ring 01629 533020 - £26!

Friendly group that meets on the second Monday of the month at the Post Mill Centre, South Normanton at 7.30pm.

11th Feb

AGM and DVD on Gardening Tips

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Graham and Judy White Creating an NGS Garden

For more information call Nigel on 01773 811429

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Springfields Shopping Village & Baytree World of Gardening –Wednesday 27th Feb Adults £18, Conc. £17

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Weston-super-Mare - Monday 11th-15th March Half Board at the Grosvenor Hotel - £228

London (Marble Arch) – Saturday 2nd March Adults £22, conc. £20, Family ticket £70

Cornish Easter, Newquay Breakaway Saturday 20th -24th April - Half board at the Eliot Hotel - £230

Northallerton Market – Wednesday 6th March Adults £18, Conc. £17 See our hure 2019 Broc for more trips

London Weekend – Friday 26th -28th April Bed & Breakfast at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington - £225 Irelands West Coast Saturday 7th – 13th September - £550

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Slimming World Recipe - Fish Pie Kindness is the theme this month. So why not be kind to yourself (or someone else) with this fab recipe!

Serves: 4

Ready in: 1hr 20 minutes

Syns per serving: Free

Method:

1. Put the onion, squash, cauliflower, celery and garlic in a medium saucepan and add the fish sauce, mustard powder and 400ml water. Bring to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes, or until tender.

Remove from the heat and whizz until smooth with a stick blender.

2. Return to a gentle simmer, add the broccoli and cook for 5 minutes.

Add the fish, prawns, peas, capers and parsley and simmer gently for 8-10 minutes, or until the fish is just cooked. Gently stir through lemon juice and seasoning to taste.

3. Meanwhile, make the mash. Put the sweet potatoes, cauliflower, potatoes and garlic in a saucepan of boiling water over a high heat.

Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15 minutes or until tender. Drain well and mash. Stir through the quark and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste.

4. Put the fish and sauce into an ovenproof dish, top with the mash and cook under a medium-high grill for 10 minutes. Serve hot with your favourite Speed vegetables.

For more information visit www.slimmingworld.co.uk

Ingredients:

• 1 large onion, roughly chopped • 100g butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and roughly chopped • 100g cauliflower florets • 1 celery stick, chopped • 3 large garlic cloves • 1 tsp Thai fish sauce (nam pla) • 1 tsp mustard powder • 150g broccoli florets • 250g skinless and boneless smoked haddock, cut into small chunks • 200g skinless and boneless salmon fillet, cut into small chunks • 200g raw peeled king prawns

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• Get writing: • Your dream / intention – either write down your intentions and dreams or make a vision board. This is something you can keep coming back to, reminding you of what you really want.

• Gratitude - Keep a note of all the things you are grateful for, this helps to put you in a positive frame of mind. Studies have found this can help to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, meaning you are less likely to feel anxious and more likely to feel that you can and you will want to keep up with your positive life choices.

• Positive affirmations - Once again these can help to put us in a positive frame of mind, which means that we are more likely to keep up with our resolutions. Clients often ask me for advice on writing positive affirmations, in particular how to phrase them. Phrase your

affirmations as if you have already achieved them, “I have my dream job which utilises my skills and provides me with a good income”, for example (even if this is something you’re still working towards). Write in the present tense so you actually begin to create!

• Choose your thoughts carefully - If you find yourself thinking negatively, STOP and start to think differently about the situation. Although it might take practice we really can choose to replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

• Support - Another strategy to help maintain your positive intentions is to surround yourself with a support network. You don’t have to tell everyone your plans, choose positive and supportive people to be around. Ask your friends to join in your new fitness activity, encourage your work colleagues to have healthy snacks in the office and share your career goals with a supportive mentor or friend.

Some of these ideas might seem rather obvious, or perhaps completely new to you. Either way I hope they help you to let go of habits that are no longer serving you well and keep a positive frame of mind. e: Helen@yogapanacea.com | Health and Wellbeing with Helen |

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Belinda Bauer’s crime novel Rubbernecker takes you out of most people’s normal humdrum day-to-day world. Not to another planet, but to the minds of people living in a different place inside their heads.

Sam is a man in a coma who believes he has watched a doctor deliberately killing the man in the bed next door to him, but of course can tell no-one about it.

Patrick is an 18-year-old medical student with Asperger’s who finds other people and their emotions baffling, but ends upon the trail of a murder.

And the nurse? Well she’s a self-centred, unpleasant mean cow whose eye is on the main chance rather than the welfare of her patients.

This is a very unusual, quite dark, but also unexpectedly funny book, which won a crime book of the year for its author. Belinda Bauer did not start writing until she was in her 40s and was last year longlisted for the Booker Prize for a further crime novel - Snap – the first time crime genre has ever been considered for the prestigious literary prize.

Anyway, she’s good. She says she doesn’t write crime novels, but books about people which have crimes in them and that’s a fair assessment and makes the books all the better for it.

Rubbernecker is well written, has plenty of twists and is an intelligent and unsettling read.

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Monday Soroptimist International Amber Valley

Firs House Alfreton, The Womens International Service Organisation - a global voice for women, 2nd Monday of the month,, 01773 745082 or 748606

South Normanton Gardeners Association

Tuesday (cont...)

South Normanton & Alfreton District Amateur Radio Club

7pm, Post Mill Centre, www.snadarc.com South Normanton Striders, 6.30pm, Fredrick Gent School, Contact Rob, 07962 308933, www.activityderbyshire.co.uk/jog Music & Rhyme Time

Pinxton Nursery School, 0-18 months old Newton & District - OAP Club 7-9pm, Newton Community Centre, Musical Entertainment, 01773 873414 The Base Youth Club

5-7pm The Base South Normanton, School Years 6-8, 01773 510882, www.snapyouth.org SNAP Detached Youth Work

5-7pm, South St Recreational Ground, School 6-11, 01773 510882, www.snapyouth.org

Tuesday NRAS Chesterfield ( National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society)

7.30pm, Post Mill Centre, 07580 635589

Breathe Easy Group

1.30-3.30pm , Post Mill Centre, 3rd Tuesday of the month. For people and supporters of sufferers of lung related illnesses including asthma and COPD., Contact Ros, 01773 831990 South Normanton Dramatic Society

7.30-10pm, Post Mill Centre, 3rd Tuesday of the month, www. facebook.com/SNorDS@gmail.com for more details, Contact Ian, sthnrmds@gmail.com Messy Play 9.15-10.30am, Pinxton Parish Hall, 15months-3 years £2

Newton Methodist Church - Afternoon Tea

2-4pm, Newton Methodist Church The Base Lads Night

5.30-7.30pm, The Base South Normanton, Last Wednesday of the month, School Years 7 - 11, 01773 510882, www. snapyouth.org West Ashfield Inner Wheel

7pm, The Hub South Normanton, 2nd Tuesday of the month, 01773 540788 Derby A Capella, 7.30pm - 10pm, Chester Green Community Centre, City Road, DE1 3SA, Contact Gordon, 01332 518594, gordonsavage@yahoo.co.uk

Wednesday Oakwood Royal British Legion

5-7pm, South St Recreational Ground, School 6-11, 01773 510882, www.snapyouth.org

AVRUFC Senior Section

Forest Gump Joggers

6.15pm, Fredrick Gent School, Beginners Jogging Group, Contact Heather, 07983 51273, www.activederbyshire.co.uk West Ashfield Rotary Club

6.45pm for 7pm start, Derbyshire Hotel, Contact Mike, 01773 609942 Zion Methodist Coffee Club

8.30-10.30pm, Oakwood Community Centre, All welcome for socials and branch meetings, 01332 679282

7-8.30pm, Amber Valley RUFC, For Training during closed season, Contact Stuart Artliff or Gareth Pilkington, 07966 867946/07722 366157 Baby Group

1-3pm, Pinxton Nursery School, All under 1’s welcome, 01773 863105

South Normanton Dramatics Society

7.30-10pm, Post Mill Centre, www.facebook.com/SNorDS for more details, Contact Ian, sthnormds@gmail.com

10-11.30am, Zion Methodist Church Market Street, 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Contact Freda Ludlum, 01773 811875

E.M.J.J.A Jiu Jitsu & Kobudo Club

4-6pm, St Helens Church Pinxton, £2 for snacks & Drinks, Contact Zynell Callaghan, 07866 029978, messykidzpinxton@ gmail.com

Salvation Army Fellowship

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7.30pm, Post Mill Centre, Friendly Group with a variety of ages, 07580 635589

Thursday Alfreton & District U3A

6.30-8pm, Tesco Clay Cross Community Room, 1st Tuesday of the month, 01628 823524

SNAP Detached Youth Work

10-12pm, South Normanton Parish Church, Last saturday of the month, Cakes & goods for sale to raise money for the building fund., Contact Stephen Potter, 01773 811273, stephen.potter55@gmail.com

5-7pm, The Base South Normanton, School years 7-11, 01773 510882, www.snapyouth.org

South Normanton WI

7.30pm, Stonebroom Methodist Church, Sings Christian music, twice a month, 01773 834965

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Alfreton Society of Painters

7.30-9pm, Alfreton Community Hall, £5 Lesson first one free, Contact Sensei D.Kershaw, 07840 327134, darrenker@sky. com

Stonebroom Methodist Male Voice Choir

Salvation Army Market Street 9.30-12.30pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Drop in Centre, Contact Ruth Sheppard/Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386

12.30pm, Newton Methodist Church, 2nd Tuesday of the month, 2 course lunch with tea & coffee, includes a film for £6.50, Contact Ros Davey/Barbara Mee, 01773 873241/01773 873414, mmee1@btinternet.com

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The Base Girls Night

7-8pm, Alfreton Leisure Centre, £5 lesson first one free, Contact Sensei D.Kershaw, 07840 327134, darrenker@sky. com

7pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Contact Ruth Sheppard/ Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386

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Mini Roarers Toddler Group

7.30pm, Post Mill Centre, 2nd Monday of the month, Contact Nigel, 01773 811429 E.M.J.J.A Jiu Jitsu & Kobudo Club

Wednesday (cont...)

7-9pm, Hathersage Community Centre, Contact Carol, 01773 603707

2pm, Christ the King Church Hall, 2nd Thursday of the month, Contact Gill , 01773 608863, gilldaw@gmail.com Alfreton Male Voice Choir Rehearsals

6.45pm, Palmer Moorwood Social Club, New members welcome. No audition just a love of singing, 01773 833391 Breastfeeding Group

12.30-2.30pm, The Genesis Centre, Make new friends, discuss any issues you may have, 01629 533735

St Michaels & All Angels Parish Church

Newton Methodist Church, Newton Methodist Church

1st Saturday of the month, Full English, Bacon Sandwiches & Cake stall, Contact Barbara Mee, 01773 873414, mme1@

Sunday Salvation Army Market Street

9.30-12.30pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Drop in Centre, Contact Ruth Sheppard/Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386 St Michaels & All Angels Parish Church

Salvation Army Market Street

10-12pm, South Normanton Parish Church, Last saturday of the month, Cakes & goods for sale to raise money for the building fund., Contact Stephen Potter, 01773 811273, stephen.potter55@gmail.com

Carry-together Sling Library

1st Saturday of the month, Full English, Bacon Sandwiches & Cake stall, Contact Barbara Mee, 01773 873414, mme1@ btinternet.com

9.30-12.30pm, Salvation Army Market Street, Drop in Centre, Contact Ruth Sheppard/Joan Mellors, 07855 455093/01773 783386 1-2.30pm, Genesis Centre - Soft Play, Every other week, www.facook.com/CarryTogetherSlingLibrary

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Zion Methodist Youth Club

6.30pm, Zion Methodist Church Market Street, Youth Club for ages 5-11, Contact Freda Ludlum, 01773 811875

Platinum Seniors

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Newton Toddler Group

1-3pm, Newton Community Centre, Term time only, Contact Kathryn, 01773 872031

Alfreton Cyclists Touring Club

7pm, Gloves Lane, Blackwell, 0771 9933824 Newton Methodist Church Coffee & Chat

10-11.30am, Newton Methodist Church

The Base Pinxton

6-7.30pm, Pinxton Youth Centre, School Years 6-11 , 01773 510882, www.snapyouth.org

Friday Tiny & Toddlers

9-11am, Pinxton Village Hall, 0-3 Years, Contact Are these the same group

Toddler Group

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J28 The Common - The Zone

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Other Guiding offers opportunities in the following sections: Rainbows age 5-7yrs • Brownies aged 7-10yrs Guides aged 10-14yrs • Adult Leaders 18yrs + Senior Section aged 14-25yrs If you or your daughter would like to know more about Joining visit www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested or call 0800 1 69 59 01 Amber Valley Gymnastics Club

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Stonebroom Pre-School We are open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday,

term time, 9.00am - 12.00pm. We offer places for children aged 2 - 5 years. Stonebroom Village Hall, Cleveland Road.

Tel: 07971 804 936 South Normanton Cricket Club is recruiting new players of any standard from the ages of 13 upwards. We play most Saturdays/

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Rambles with Rafa This month we have picked a walk which I think is perfect for a winter ramble, making use of some of the paths and trials to the north of Derby’s city centre. Our thanks, again, go out to David from JH Legal, who keeps providing us with new and interesting walks, whatever the weather!

We begin our walk in Darley Park, heading down the side of the river Derwent, before crossing the river and turning to head back up, alongside the Racecourse Park. From here we pick a section of the Great Northern Greenway, turning off before we reach Breadsall. We then cut across to meet up with the River Derwent again, before heading south to pass through the West Mill and back to where we began.

4 1/2 mile circular walk from Darley Park, Derby

A short walk which should take you and your dog around 2 hours to complete. There are a few sections of road so please take care. There majority of the walk is on paths and trails but please wear appropriate footwear and as always, please follow the countryside code.

START: Darley Park Car Park, Poplar Row, Derby. DE22 1DU 1. Standing with your back to the entrance cross the car park diagonal left passing some recycle bins on your left and taking the well laid footpath to pass behind the cricket club house. Follow the path with the river on your left for some distance and cross over a small wooden footbridge.

2. Continue ahead staying close to the river for some distance and eventually you will begin to pass houses raised up on a bank to your right. Eventually the footpath will turn into a road. Continue straight ahead to pass Derby Rowing Club and a small car park to your left. At this point keep left and take a tarmac footpath straight ahead of you keeping the river close on your left.

3. After a short distance, just before passing under a bridge, turn right. Then after a short distance turn left and up some steps. At the top of the steps turn left and cross over the bridge. At the other side of the bridge continue ahead and at the crossroad turn right, signposted for Allestree, Daley Abbey & Little Eaton. Follow the path keeping some industrial buildings on your right.

4. Continue until reaching a T junction with a road. Turn right and then immediately left to continue along ‘Chester Green Road’. Continue straight ahead with a row of houses on your left and a recreation area to your right until reaching a T junction with a main road. Cross over a zebra crossing in front of you and turn right along the main road. After a short distance take the 2nd left into Ceaser Street.

5. When the houses end and the road narrows continue straight ahead to pass beneath a bridge and walk on until reaching a main road. Cross straight over the road and then continue straight ahead along a footpath to pass through and underpass. Immediately after the underpass at a fork in the path bear to the left. After a very short distance at a crossroads of paths turn left again. Now continue along a footpath with playing fields on your right.

6. Continue straight ahead for some distance and then at a fork in the path bear right and continue to a main road. Cross over the road following a signpost for ‘Breadsall Hilltop’ and then continue along a tarmac footpath for some distance.

7. Eventually you will reach a road. Continue straight ahead along-side the road until reaching a T junction with another road and a pub directly opposite. Cross straight over this road, turn left to continue for a short distance along the road and then turn right through a width restrictor onto a footpath, keeping the pub on your right.

8. Continue along this footpath for some distance passing a signboard on your left reading ‘Great Northern Greenway’.

After some distance, at a crossroads of footpaths, ignore the footpath on your right with a metal width restrictor and instead turn left through a gap in a fence along a footpath marked as cycle path ‘672’. Continue along this path going gently downhill until passing through a metal width restrictor and onto a road. Cross over and then turn left along the road.

9. Continue along the road for a short distance, then upon reaching some large stones on the right-hand side of the road turn right along a cycleway. After a short distance cross over a main road and pass through a metal swing gate to follow a footpath through some trees to cross a field.

10. After some distance on the footpath you will reach some steps. Climb the steps cross over a rail bridge. On the other side turn immediately to the right and then to the left to cross over a wooden footbridge. After the footbridge continue straight ahead across a field keeping a dyke on your left.

Upon reaching a T junction with a lane turn left along keeping a river on your right.

11. After some distance pass through a large metal gate and continue ahead for a short distance until you have a fence in front of you. Bear left and continue with the fence on your right. Stay close to the fence for some distance, then shortly after the fence begins to curve to the right follow the footpath straight ahead peeling away from the fence as straight as possible.

12. Continue straight ahead until reaching a lane. Now continue along this lane with a fence on your left. When the lane bends to the right, continue straight staying close to the fence.

When the fence ends keep straight ahead and pass over a stile adjacent to a large metal gate. Walk along a tarmac lane until reaching a road with ‘Haslams Rugby Club’ opposite.

13. Turn right along the road to pass a 2mph sign as you enter an old mill. Continue along the narrow road through the mill passing a ‘Toll £1’ sign and eventually cross over a river bridge with the weir on your left.

14. Immediately after crossing the bridge the road curls to the left. Follow the road around to the left and then when the road bends right take the first turning on your left into ‘Darley Street’. Continue along ‘Darley Street’ passing ‘Mill View Gardens’ on your left and then after a short distance turn left into ‘Poplar Row’ to continue back to the car park.

This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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Mike’s Musings I’d like to say this is literally the best column Mike has produced, but having read the column I’m not sure what that means anymore. The sentence has the same meaning if I leave the word literally out, so why does everyone use it so much. It may be literally the most overused word in the English language!

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As you know, George, UCIP’s People’s Champion, has for some six months now, been carrying out research in an attempt to identify the issues that are seriously troubling the everyday man/woman of this country.

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Many of the problems he has heard, relate to abuse of the English language. Read on.

Mary, from Leabrooks, wants an end to the phrase ‘going forward’. “What’s wrong,” she pleads “with the word next?”

On a similar theme, Pauline from Swanwick is fed up hearing people use the phrase ‘get go’ as in ‘he was determined to come out on top from the get go.’

“Would ‘start’ not be better use of the language?” she asks. She went on to complain about the use of the phrase ‘at this moment in time’ when all that is required, she argues, is the word ‘now’.

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So, there was big news as we were sending the magazine to print… no, not Brexit! Far more important that that, Nottingham Forest sacked Karanka. As another manager leaves the City Ground is it more of a surprise that this was not a surprise?

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Having gone from perennial Championship strugglers in recent years, to a team with an enviable record against the division’s top teams, it looked like the large tanker stranded at sea was beginning to make a turn and head into somewhat calmer waters.

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On the pitch, it looked like Forest were in good shape. A 3-3 draw at Norwich on Boxing Day wouldn’t ordinarily be cause for much concern, despite having been 3-0 - that collapse, coupled with some odd tactical decisions appeared to spark the decline.

In truth, the problems had arisen long before the Canaries battled back to earn a point at Christmas time. Karanka’s relationship with the board had deteriorated and once that goes, as it did, the slope the Spaniard walked thereafter was always going to be a challenging one and one which proved impossible to correct.

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