A Derbyshire council has agreed to spend thousands of pounds defending a beloved allotment site and backed a campaign group looking to take ownership of it. At a Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last night (July 14) the authority chose to spend thousands of pounds relating to two legal battles over the Starkholmes Allotments site, […]
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A new “super council” for the East Midlands could win an extra £1 billion in Government funding for better buses, cheaper houses and more job creation. Fears that it would put up council tax by £100 a year have consistently been played down. At the moment, the proposed new East Midlands Combined Authority – with its
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A new countywide, multi-agency strategy tackling violence against women and girls has been launched. The Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which has been signed by all the key partners in Derby City and Derbyshire who work to prevent this type of violence, provides a Derbyshire-centric approach to protecting and supporting those at risk. It
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A man has been charged with attempted murder after we were called to reports that a woman had been stabbed in Chesterfield. Officers were alerted by paramedics just before midnight on Sunday 3 July to a woman who had been found outside a property on Meynell Close in Brampton with a number of stab wounds.
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A man has died after a collision last weekend on the main road between Winster and Wensley. Emergency services were called to reports of a collision involving a motorbike on the B5057 at around 5.55pm on Sunday 10 July. The road was closed while officers dealt with the scene and carried out initial enquiries. John
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Mothers in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire are 50 per cent more likely to be smokers at the time of giving birth despite the potential harm to their babies, according to worrying figures released by the NHS. Joined-Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) is focussing on pregnant smokers in a bid to reduce infant mortality and health problems
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A Conservative Derbyshire councillor has refused to explain “historic social media posts”, believed to be of an anti-Semitic nature, which have led to his five-year suspension. Cllr Philip Rose, elected as Conservative county councillor for the Alfreton and Somercotes division in May last year, is believed to have shared controversial posts online as recently as 2019.
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Today Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service is celebrating being one of 18 East Midlands organisations being awarded the Employer Recognition Gold Award from the Armed Forces Covenant. Derbyshire’s Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive Gavin Tomlinson said: “It is an honour that Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service has been recognised by the Armed Forces Covenant as a
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More than 60,000 jobs and £900million are expected to be generated within the local economy thanks to a lucrative deal between Derbyshire and neighbouring counties, that will allow freedom of trade movement. Derbyshire County Council (DCC) has agreed to join Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire county councils as part of the East Midlands Freeport Company, which promises
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Overworked nurses are ‘tired’ as they struggle to take safe care of patients while making up for a lack of available staff, a hospital chief has revealed. In her report to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, deputy chief nurse Sarah Ward also explained that an assessment of patient need carried out between January
