Police in Chesterfield are appealing for information after reports a woman was assaulted by two women outside a bar in the town centre. It is believed to have happened at around 5am on Saturday 24 June in the courtyard seating area outside Vibe Bar on Holywell Street. The victim was allegedly approached by two women …
A murder investigation has been launched after a man died following an incident in Chesterfield. The victim, a man in his 50s, was involved in an altercation in the grounds of the Crooked Spire church in the early hours of Sunday 2 July. The man was then found deceased at his home in Chesterfield on …
Jason Steven Goodall, of St Lawrence Avenue in Bolsover, was a passenger in the back of a white Mazda 3 when it left the road and collided with a tree in Mansfield Road just after 12.10am on Saturday 8 July. The 38-year-old died at the scene. His family, who are being supported by specialist officers, …
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Council bosses have agreed to a £750,000 transfer of a Derbyshire nursery into a nearby primary school due to running costs and difficulties in sustaining its existing building in one of the “most deprived areas” in the county. Derbyshire County Council approved the move at its cabinet meeting, on Monday, July 10, for Gamesley Early Excellence Centre, …
Council chiefs have officially accepted an additional £4.2m of Government funding for the roll-out of highways maintenance and pothole repairs across Derbyshire. Derbyshire County Council formally approved acceptance of the funding from the Department for Transport at a cabinet meeting on Monday, July 10, for highways maintenance and pothole repairs for 2023 and 2024 in the county. County …
A Derbyshire care home will be extended despite concern over flooding issues in surrounding houses. At a Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last night (July 11), plans for a 16-bed dementia unit extension to the Ivonbrook Residential Care Home in Eversleigh Rise, Darley Bridge, close to Matlock, were approved. This was the second time the …
Two Staveley Town Councilors have hit back at the call from Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins for a review which could see the debt-troubled local authority abolished. Independent town councillor Paul Mann and Liberal Democrat town councillor Paul Jacobs have highlighted the accumulative financial difficulties which they claim mainly arose under the previously controlled Labour Staveley Town Council …
A North Derbyshire music legend’s teamed up with The Heights of Abraham to celebrate the Matlock Bath tourist attraction in song. John Gill, who’s known to generations of Derbyshire children for bringing musical performance into their school day, wrote the gentle guitar tune ‘On the Heights of Abraham’, which lists all the fun activities on …
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The man who died in a serious collision at Ridgeway has been named, and a man has been charged in connection with the crash. Jordan Sheehy, who is from the Doncaster area, was travelling in a Vauxhall Mokka on the B6388 High Lane when the collision took place just after 1.40pm on Saturday 1 July. …
Council bosses have given the green light for a public consultation into the proposed relocation of Staveley and Clay Cross Libraries as part of multi-million pound town renewal plans. Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet approved the consultation on plans to relocate Staveley Library, on Hall Lane, into the proposed commercial Pavilion Building, on Market Place, and to …
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