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Report by Local Democracy Reporter – Jon Cooper A North East Derbyshire District Councillor’s call for the authority to oppose and abandon Local Government Reorganisation plans has been rejected by the council’s Labour administration after the Council Leader argued LGR is ‘necessary’ because the current system is ‘unsustainable’. Councils have been preparing for LGR with
Report by Local Democracy Reporter – Eddie Bisknell Derbyshire officials are to spend £40 million contracting private firms to carry out specialist road repair works. Derbyshire County Council is to sign off on the £40 million spending following a cabinet meeting on Thursday (October 15), where the money will be signed off across six new
More than 50 women have completed empowerment workshops co-designed by survivors of domestic abuse to protect them from becoming future victims. Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts provided £5k from her Safer and Stronger Communities Fund to Derby-based non-profit organisation Community One for its Empower Her project. The programme was designed to address violence against
Reform councillor and cabinet member for finance John Lawson. Image from Derbyshire County Council. Report by Local Democracy Reporter – Eddie Bisknell Reform’s Derbyshire leadership has hailed massive pension gains linked to wind, solar, net zero and climate change investments, while claiming such “stupid” aims have “impoverished the nation”. In a Derbyshire County Council meeting
The failed support of dozens of children with special educational needs has cost Derbyshire taxpayers more than £79,000 in the past year alone – with £20,000 owed to one family. An annual report compiling Derbyshire County Council’s handling of Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman complaints has highlighted the authority’s continued significant shortfalls involving special
The Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup is underway soon. North Derbyshire Radio managed to get EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS with Luis Domingos and Wales Father and Son pair Gareth and Sid Ramsey Luis Domingos returned to Wheelchair Rugby League from wheelchair basketball last year, won the Championship with Castleford and now plays in Super League for Sheffield
A colorectal cancer nurse from Derby has been hailed as a ‘inspiration’ at an annual awards ceremony, run by the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity Bowel Cancer UK. Angela Gilmour, a colorectal clinical nurse specialist at Royal Derby Hospital for the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust, won this year’s Bowel Cancer UK’s
Chesterfield is set to have a spooktacular half term with lots of activities for families to enjoy. Chesterfield Borough Council is organising activities in its parks, the town centre and its leisure centres during the October half term – with a spooky theme to celebrate Halloween. There are lots of free and low-cost options to
