Day: February 24, 2025

Warnings not issued until six hours after homes started to flood, ignored sandbag requests, HGV drivers pushing floodwater into houses, failing sewage networks and blocked drains. Homes flooded above the height of their letterboxes and windowsills, cars submerged and one life lost. This is the story of Storm Babet’s impact on Derbyshire during the region’s

Thirteen blank firearms have been handed in as part of our amnesty in Derbyshire so far. Across England and Wales, more than 1,000 of these Turkish manufactured guns, which will soon be outlawed due to tests showing them as readily convertible, have been handed in. The top-venting blank firing (TVBF) guns can be handed in

A Nottingham man has been remanded to prison after cannabis grow and hundreds of wraps of Class A drugs found following a car being stopped in Pinxton. A Ford Mondeo was stopped in Town Street just after 11.30am on Wednesday 6 February. Inside the car suspected class A drugs were found. A further search of