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Opposition Labour councillors are calling for Conservative-led Derbyshire County Council to reconsider its controversial decision to close ten children’s centres as part of overall saving plans to meet an estimated budget deficit for the current financial year of nearly £40m. The Conservative-controlled council’s Cabinet approved the closure of the ten children’s centres during its recent

The number 80 bus service will continue with no break in service, thanks to Derbyshire County Council providing funding and finding a new operator to take it on. There will also be a new link between Killamarsh and Sheffield for residents in that part of the county. The 80 route, which currently goes from Chesterfield,

Enquiries have been continuing into the circumstances of a fatal shooting in Whaley Bridge. Police were called to reports of a burglary at a property in Eccles Road at around 1.20am on 1 May. At the scene a man was found to have sustained fatal gunshot wounds. He has now been formally identified as Marcus

Labour candidate Nicolle Ndiweni has been elected as the new Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner and she will now work to help set police priorities for the county and a policing budget while ensuring local and national priorities are suitably resourced as they monitor the force’s performance. The previous Conservative Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner

The new mayor of the East Midlands has vowed to address the region’s “massive challenges” after being elected in an historic poll. Labour’s Claire Ward was elected on Friday, May 3, with a 40 per cent share of the total number of votes cast across the region. The Labour Party’s victory in the East Midlands

Patients would be able to dim the lights, control the temperature and play music via Bluetooth at new multi-million-pound mental health facilities being built in Derbyshire. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is leading the construction of £150 million new mental health facilities in Chesterfield and Derby – dubbed the “making room for dignity” project –

A concerned MP and a determined councillor who are continuing to campaign to reduce traffic congestion along the busy A61 road through a north Derbyshire town are urging residents to take part in their consultation survey in a bid to secure funding for a new highways redevelopment. NE Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley and Derbyshire County

Three men have been charged in connection with burglaries at homes in the Baslow and Monyash areas of the Derbyshire Dales. Brandon Hollingworth, 26, and Rocco Carr, 20, both of Danewood Gardens, Sheffield, were arrested on 18 April. The pair were then charged and remanded into police custody on 27 April. Ronnie Coleman, 21, of

Protesters lined the steps of Derbyshire council’s headquarters calling for the authority not to close ten Children’s Centres and to rethink its plans to close up to 11 elderly care homes as part of strategies aimed at overcoming an estimated budget deficit of nearly £40m. But the Conservative-led county council approved the closure of ten

A holiday lodge developer has been given a year to remove dozens of unlawful concrete bases, stone boulder walls and a road, reprofile an entire hillside and replant 100 trees it illegally felled. Government inspector John Felgate has largely ruled against Anthony Barney, owner of Haytop Country Park – on the hillside above Whatstandwell –