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Councillors have pledged their commitment to a campaign for better treatment of workers suffering from terminal illness, calling it the ‘compassionate’ thing to do. Bolsover District Council Leader Councillor Steve Fritchley put forward a motion in a meeting on March 8 to sign the Trade Union Congress’s (TUC) Dying to Work Charter. The Dying to […]

An historic Derbyshire stately home has been ordered to remove an axe-throwing range, air rifle shooting range and archery range it built without planning permission. The Grade-II*-listed Willersley Castle next to the River Derwent in Cromford is undergoing a new lease of life as an adventure centre, after the historic estate’s use as a hotel

A quarry can extract up to 33 million tonnes of Peak District limestone with updated conditions agreed by national park chiefs. The Beelow/Doveholes Quarry has permission dating back to 1948 to extract the stone from eight hectares of agricultural land, but to be allowed to continue doing so operators CEMEX must periodically agree a schedule of

Eight police forces are joining the operation, which starts today (Monday 6 March) and will see patrols in unmarked HGV cabs on the M1 between London and Leeds. From the elevated position in the HGV cab, officers can spot unsafe driving behaviour – whatever vehicle the motorist may be in. The aim is to reduce

A Derbyshire council has approved plans to direct a further £400,000 pounds in public money towards a town centre cinema scheme. Derbyshire Dales District Council agreed in a meeting last night (March 2) to direct £408,737 in Government grant funding to the Bakewell Road market hall scheme in Matlock town centre. The new funds would

A former High Peak pub landlord who groomed a teenage girl has been jailed. The abuse began when the victim was 15. Graeme Maltby-Baker sent the teenager text messages as well as making sexual comments to her. He then began taking her out in his vehicle on a regular basis where he would kiss her,

A drone pilot who nearly caused a serious accident at a memorial flight in Buxton has been fined £3000 and handed a six-month suspended sentence for endangering an aircraft. ​Mark Bagguley, of Chatsworth Road, Fairfield, pleaded guilty to charges of endangering an aircraft and operating an aircraft out of the visual line of sight in

Two strangers from North Derbyshire, both diagnosed with bowel cancer within months of each other, have formed a ‘friendship for life’ thanks to a new Macmillan project at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Denise Hudson and Suzanne Mitchell, from Dronfield, live less than a mile apart but had never met until they were united by the Macmillan