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New call centre to provide 700 jobs and Derby primary schools falling below standard

Seven hundred jobs are being created in Derby by one of the UK's largest call centre companies. One-in-four Derby primary schools are falling below government standards for Key Stage 2 tests.

Seven hundred jobs are being created in Derby as one of the UK's largest call centre companies relocates here.

HERO tsc is to take over the former Egg building on Pride Park which will be a customer service centre for Sky.

One-in-four Derby primary schools are falling below government standards for Key Stage 2 tests.

Figures out today from the Department for Education show the results of 16,000 schools across the country. In Derby almost a quarter of the city's primary schools fell below the standard.

The government says it may turn low performing schools into academies or put them into special measures.

Sport from Six, former Rams and current Burton Albion player Paul Boertien has been forced to retire due to injury.

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  • Thu 15 Dec 2011 16:00

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