July 2023

A Derbyshire care home will be extended despite concern over flooding issues in surrounding houses. At a Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last night (July 11), plans for a 16-bed dementia unit extension to the Ivonbrook Residential Care Home in Eversleigh Rise, Darley Bridge, close to Matlock, were approved. This was the second time the

Two Staveley Town Councilors have hit back at the call from Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins for a review which could see the debt-troubled local authority abolished. Independent town councillor Paul Mann and Liberal Democrat town councillor Paul Jacobs have highlighted the accumulative financial difficulties which they claim mainly arose under the previously controlled Labour Staveley Town Council

A North Derbyshire music legend’s teamed up with The Heights of Abraham to celebrate the Matlock Bath tourist attraction in song. John Gill, who’s known to generations of Derbyshire children for bringing musical performance into their school day, wrote the gentle guitar tune ‘On the Heights of Abraham’, which lists all the fun activities on

The man who died in a serious collision at Ridgeway has been named, and a man has been charged in connection with the crash. Jordan Sheehy, who is from the Doncaster area, was travelling in a Vauxhall Mokka on the B6388 High Lane when the collision took place just after 1.40pm on Saturday 1 July.

Council bosses have given the green light for a public consultation into the proposed relocation of Staveley and Clay Cross Libraries as part of multi-million pound town renewal plans. Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet approved the consultation on plans to relocate Staveley Library, on Hall Lane, into the proposed commercial Pavilion Building, on Market Place, and to