This week’s Top 10 stories: Exits, Brexit and bars

In a week when Infinity Park was launched in Derby, it is almost ironic that our best-read story of the week involved a gym in the iPro Stadium on the city’s wildly successful Pride Park going into administration. The Funky Fitness club found itself in a… funk and has closed, with Derby City Council the biggest loser financially.

The second most popular story was the tale of Chesterfield’s Realstone which fell into administration at completely the wrong time, it seems (if there is ever a right time). The firm was on the verge of a sale when the buyer got cold feet after the EU Referendum vote went to Leave and pulled out – meaning the business is in the process of being wound down. Some of our readers thought the business was dead anyway, but where there’s life there’s hope, and Brexit appears to have snuffed that out.

In third place was the news that the doomed Loom bar in Nottingham is set to be taken over by the rapidly expanding Curious brand. The Lace Market is now packed full of bars, but let’s hope there’s room for the people behind The Curious Townhouse to make this place a success.

This week’s Top 10 stories:

1. Pride Park Fitness Club enters administration
2. Derbyshire stone business brought down by Brexit
3. Curious tale of Loom bar takes another twist
4. Derby BID collapses after voters split
5. Apprenticeship training firm opens in Derby
6. Leicester logistics firm sold in pre-pack deal
7. Private equity firm takes £21m stake in Leicestershire housebuilder
8. New chair at Nottingham Professional Services
9. Derbyshire haulage firm sold to historic Kent rival
10. Source Bioscience to be sold in £63m deal