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Northern Rail has trialled technology which means interpreters appear on trains’ on-board screens, for example to let passengers know about the next stop. The system, piloted on trains between Manchester, Leeds and York last year, will be introduced across the fleet next year.

A Derbyshire charity has completed “phase one” of a project to transform a disused piece of land at a train station into a community space. Just Good Friends, which supports adults with learning disabilities, started work to create a sensory garden at Whitwell Station, Derbyshire, in September.

Lord Mackinlay of Richborough is the first quadruple amputee to sit in the House of Lords after he was given a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s dissolution honours list. The former MP had both his legs and arms amputated in December after contracting sepsis.

A photography exhibition seeking to open up conversations about terminal illness has launched in Derbyshire. Life’s Final Chapter has been curated by Ashgate Hospice, based in Chesterfield, and features those personally facing death or dealing with the loss.

A nine-year-old boy with terminal cancer whose dream was to set up a lemonade stand found himself in major demand as a queue of customers stretched around the block. Thomas, from Bournemouth, wanted to start up the venture after learning online about other children doing similar things.