VIDEO: Film casts troubled town in new light
Last year, Shirebrook Town Council tasked its then chairman, Councillor Stephen Fritchley, with dispelling its ‘image problem’.
He then commissioned film-maker Martyn Harris to make a ten-minute short which premiered at the town’s Tangent business centre last night.
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Hide AdHe said: “As many people will know, we had some problems in Shirebrook at the beginning of last year.
“There was a lot of bad press that came about as a result of the BBC’s Inside Out programme, which many thought portrayed Shirebrook in a negative way.
“We had a few boisterous meetings at the time but what came from the meetings is that as a town council we wanted to keep people better informed.
“We have not been good at the presentational and technology side of things - websites and the like.
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Hide Ad“I was chairman at the time and the town council told me that they wanted to do something about it.”
As a result, last year the council produced a glossy brochure and has now followed this up with a new website and video, called Outside In.
Coun Fritchley - who serves on Bolsover District Council as well as Shirebrook Town Council - points to a flight simulator located in the Tangent business centre as evidence of the town’s hidden depths.
This supremely high-tech kit is owned by an ex-airline pilot who trains and gives refresher courses to Boeing 737 pilots.
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Hide Ad“People say there’s nowt in Shirebrook but there is - we have got all sorts of things and we want to portray it in a positive way,” he says.
“There are hundreds of different firms and lots of stuff going on - its not just Sports Direct.”
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