Day: June 10, 2024

The first East Midlands Mayor, Claire Ward, will be paid £93,000 a year and will have a deputy mayor on up to £46,500. In May, just over a quarter of eligible voters cast their ballots in the inaugural East Midlands Mayor election, with Labour’s Claire Ward winning by a significant margin, claiming victory in almost

A former pub landlady said she felt “sick” and as if a “dark cloud hung over the place” when a Derbyshire council announced her care home could be closed. Mary Biggin, aged 89, used to run the Victoria Inn and Red Lion, in Chesterfield, along with three further pubs in Sheffield and has been living