November 2022

Councillors swapped stories of HGVs causing chaos on Derbyshire roads, including one blocking a perilous Peak District pass, as they united in a call to ban truckers using standard car sat navs. Conservative Councillor Nigel Gourlay remembered seeing a truck carrying a shipping container get stuck on Winnats Pass, near Castleton, as he backed a […]

Council-employed care workers are receiving the first of two £500 instalments after a controversial pay policy was scrapped.There was uproar among Derbyshire County Council (DCC) care workers last year when they missed out on a £500 sweetener provided to agency staff because the authority’s long-standing pay policy prevented retention payments to employees.Members voted to remove

A Derbyshire alpaca farm is set to be given the go-ahead despite a petition opposing the plans signed by more than 13,000 people. The plans, from private business owner Phil Kerry, would see the alpaca farm set up on land off Turlowfields Lane in Hognaston, close to Carsington Water. Mr Kerry had run a rabbit

Severely disabled children from Derbyshire were sent to three Doncaster residential homes that are currently under police investigation over abuse claims. Reports of physical and emotional abuse, violence, neglect, sexual harm and unmet medical needs at Fullerton House, Wheatley House, and Wilsic Hall are the subject of South Yorkshire Police’s ongoing Operation Lima Alpha, and have