September 2021

Chesterfield is the latest town to be chosen as one of the locations across the country hosting the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression. The visit follows the monument’s other visit to the county in October 2019, when more than 200,000 people came to see the structure outside Derby Cathedral Known as the ‘Knife Angel’, […]

A long-term vision to tackle congestion on a busy main road running through North East Derbyshire is beginning to take shape – and local people are being asked to get involved. Derbyshire County Council, North East Derbyshire District Council and Lee Rowley MP have been working together to draw up plans to improve traffic flow

Derbyshire Police are appealing for help to identify an elderly woman who was involved in a collision in Eckington yesterday (27 September). The incident took place at 3.30pm in Church Street between the junctions with Sheffield Road and Mill Road. The woman, who suffered very serious injuries, is described as White, around 80 years of

Derbyshire’s Local Resilience Forum – which is made up of the emergency services, councils, the NHS and other public sector organisations from across the county and city – have met to discuss the current issues around fuel availability being experienced in some parts of the country. All organisations have stocks of fuel and are able

Officers have arrested 13 people in a series of warrants in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. The warrants are the culmination of months of work into an alleged county line drugs gang moving heroin and crack cocaine from Sheffield into the North Derbyshire area. Officers carried out eleven warrants in the Deepcar, Heeley, Shire Green and

Could you lend a hand to older people… and get that feel-good factor as well? We are on the look-out for volunteers to become ‘pilots’ for our new triobike, which helps older people get out in the fresh air and reconnecting with their community. We have invested in the trio bike (essentially a settee on

The Radius team at Shorts Chartered Accountants has launched a new R&D tax relief microsite to help boost the finances of local businesses. The microsite is designed to help raise greater awareness of R&D tax reliefs, which are generous, government-backed tax breaks for innovative companies. This tax relief is often worth around 25% of qualifying

A project aiming to break down the barriers around ‘social connectedness’ has launched an initiative encouraging people to share what they have done to feel less lonely and isolated. Derbyshire Voluntary Action’s (DVA) Feeling Connected project has launched ‘Feeling Connected Week’, taking place between 25 September and 2 October. The aim of the initiative is to

Charity partners of the 2021 Redbrik Foundation Chesterfield 10k are on the lookout for volunteers to get involved with this year’s event, which takes place on 17th October, beginning at 10am from Queen’s Park, Chesterfield. Volunteer marshals will help to play a key role in the success of the event and will be stationed at various points

Derbyshire Police are appealing for witnesses to a suspicious incident in Ripley where a man has allegedly approached a child. Officers were called to Nottingham Road at about 3.15pm today (Friday 24 September) following reports that a man in a parked car had got out of his vehicle and approached an 11-year-old girl. Passers-by approached