Day: January 9, 2025

Ambulances queuing outside hospitals for hours, patients in A&E waiting more than half a day to be admitted and cancelled surgeries – this is the current picture of the Derbyshire NHS. This winter, day after day, Derbyshire’s NHS organisations have raised the highest level of alert – known as OPEL 4 – declaring that there

Campaigners are inviting people to join a rally in a bid to save a Derbyshire County Council care home for the elderly which is one of three earmarked for a proposed sale or closure after eight others have already been selected to be sold. The Conservative-controlled council, which is holding a public consultation, says it

A Derbyshire council is looking to significantly increase its flytipping fines in a bid to cover costly cleanups – with it currently charging the lowest fees in the county. Derbyshire Dales District Council currently charges flytipping offenders £200, which is the lowest fine of all Derbyshire councils, and is now looking to increase this to