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Financially-stretched Derbyshire County Council has agreed to a new five-strong Information and Communication Technology management team at an estimated cost of over half-a-million pounds to roll-out an up to date digital strategy in the hope of becoming more efficient. The council has conceded its ICT department and services have fallen behind some other authorities but […]

Snake Pass is one of Derbyshire’s most crucial yet notorious roads, crossing the Pennines and Peak District and connecting Manchester and Sheffield. It is a route renowned for being host to expansive views across protected countryside as well as being a popular cycling hotspot, but it is also notorious for being periodically closed on a

A vacant North Derbyshire pub which never reopened after the pandemic lockdown is now set to be converted into homes along with bungalows being built in its former car park. The Kings Arms pub in The Common, Crich, closed in March 2020 in line with the first Covid-19 lockdown and while the intention remained for

Four properties on Fairfield Road in Buxton have been closed after persistent reports of drugs and anti-social behaviour. Magistrates in Derby granted a three-month closure order on the addresses yesterday, Thursday 13 June. Officers from the Buxton Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team gathered evidence over a number of months of local concerns, incidents and action taken

Four people have been charged with drugs offences following a series of warrants on Thursday morning Officers executed the warrants at properties on Sough Road at South Normanton, Sudbury Drive in Huthwaite and Wagstaff Lane at Jacksdale on Thursday 13 June. A number of phones were seized, along with a small amount of suspected Cannabis.

The next phase of the regeneration of Chesterfield town centre is set to start in July – with experienced contractor, Thomas Bow, now appointed to take the project forward. The multi-million pound Revitalising the Heart of Chesterfield project includes a range of improvement works to transform the look, feel and flow of the town’s key

The newly-formed Chesterfield Town Board’s chairperson is urging people to take part in a recently-launched online survey to help shape how a £19.5m investment plan should be rolled out to improve the town. Chesterfield Borough Council has already agreed to be part of the Government’s new Long Term Plan for Towns scheme and to help

Cafe, bar and restaurant owners in a part of Derbyshire may have to pay five times as much money to keep seating outside their venues under new plans. Derbyshire Dales District Council, under temporary legislation introduced by the Government in July 2020 adopted pavement licences allowing venues to put tables, chairs, umbrellas and other furniture