Revered fleets in a county of contrasts

摘要

Neville Mercer's latest Super Prestige profile of a county's independents taps a rich seam of interest in Derbyshire, territory that embraces the rural beauty of the Peak District, the coal mining communities of the northeast and the manufacturing industry around Derby. Although the core subject matter is the independent sector, he sets its story within the context of the dominant larger operators, which carved out territories bound by area agreements of where each abutted against its neighbours. This part of the story also contains some informative dialogue on the establishment figures who financed and formed the BET-owned companies in this part of the East Midlands.