Lady Bakewell says "unprecedented" support is needed to ensure the future of part-time higher education.
About 6, 000 people have signed a petition against the national chain opening a store in Bakewell.
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He would visit and measure the customer at home, principally around Chesterfield and Bakewell.
Mrs Watson, from Over Haddon, Bakewell, also sits on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Baroness Bakewell is urging the government to back efforts to stem the dramatic drop in part-time students.
Members at Peak District National Park Authority have rejected proposals to regenerate the Riverside Business Park in Bakewell.
The council said the festival's organisers - the Bakewell Partnership - were responsible for any damage to the recreation ground.
Residents and business owners against the chain moving to Bakewell said they were hoping to replicate the success of Totnes campaigners.
"Unlike Totnes, Bakewell has a number of chain stores in the town such as Boots, Thorntons, and The Outdoor Company", it said.
Delve is also keen to reconnect Rebels forwards coach Mark Bakewell, who coached the Welshman in his final year at Bath in 2007.
Jemma Beagrie, from the Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop, said she wanted to keep the town independent with "local people having local jobs".
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And even if this is changing with the important advocacy of people like Dame Joan Bakewell, the ageing population is still seen as a problem.
The book claims that from the outset many people living in the close-knit community of Bakewell knew the wrong man had been convicted of her murder.
Simon Northcott, head teacher of St Anselm's in Bakewell, Derbyshire, which also failed to qualify, said that smaller primary schools in particular would be "nervous at the findings".
But he feels his all-round game has improved and for that is quick to praise the contributions of Bath head coach Steve Meehan and his assistants Brad Davis and Mark Bakewell.
As a BBC trainee he worked in the most junior jobs in the newsroom in Northern Ireland, as well as doing research, and making tea, for Joan Bakewell on Heart of The Matter.
But it faces a challenging and uncertain future, largely, Lady Bakewell says, because of the government's introduction of higher tuition fees and the failure to communicate the new loan system effectively to prospective part-time students.
Lady Bakewell says she intends to use her new role at Birkbeck - which specialises in evening and part-time courses and is part of the University of London - to exert pressure on government to support part-time higher education.
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