Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley
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00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.
00:03Homes could be built in a former Derbyshire pub car park,
00:07with the pub itself scheduled to become apartments.
00:10The plans from C13 Estates Ltd would see nine homes built in the former car park
00:15of the Country Park Tavern in Old Coppice Side Marple, next to Shipley Country Park.
00:20Erewash Borough Council will make a decision on the plans in the next few months.
00:24Earlier this month, the Council approved plans from RBSL Developments
00:28to turn the pub itself, which closed more than 10 years ago, into nine apartments.
00:33Both sets of plans would erase a scheme approved in 2019
00:37to convert the pub into a children's home
00:39and build four houses for use by older children in the pub car park.
00:45A Harry Potter first edition, bought for a tenner nearly 30 years ago by a Derbyshire mum
00:50after watching Blue Peter, could now sell at auction for £50,000.
00:54Christine McCulloch, 64, was watching J.K. Rowling being interviewed about her new book
00:59on the BBC children's show in 1997.
01:02The author mentioned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
01:05was proving popular with boys and girls,
01:08so Christine snapped up a copy for her son Adam.
01:11She paid around £10 at a bookshop in Kenilworth
01:14during a holiday to Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon.
01:16But little did she know, she had bought her seven-year-old son
01:19what would become one of the most valuable books in the world.
01:22The first edition is one of only 500 hardback copies published
01:26in the first ever hardback print run in 1997
01:29and is among the rarest and most sought after by Harry Potter fans.
01:33Despite having once languished in a cupboard under the stairs,
01:36just like Harry Potter himself for several years in Chesterfield,
01:39it could now fetch between £30,000 and £50,000
01:42when it goes under the hammer on November 27th.