Category: Local News

Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader says a council tax cut would “affect residents badly” after election pledges to decrease annual bills for residents. Cllr Alan Graves, a long-term Derby city councillor and now Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader, said his administration felt stuck between a rock and a hard place over an impending decision on

A quarter of a million pounds is to be spent trying to stop illegal parking near a popular Peak District hiking hotspot. Derbyshire County Council is set to use £250,000 in transport funding from the East Midlands Combined County Authority to target problem parking at Rushup Edge past Mam Tor. The county council, Peak District

Two suspected thieves have been arrested after officers deployed a stinger and boxed in a stolen van on the M1. A number of units including firearms and roads policing based at Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire forces worked together to bring the Ford Transit to a halt safely during a carefully orchestrated operation. We received a call

A dad from North Derbyshire has donated stem cells to a stranger so they can have a potentially lifesaving transplant. Jonathan Fox, who’s 30 from  Shirebrook, joined the register a few months ago, and received a call recently to say that he had been matched to a seriously ill patient. He travelled to Sheffield to

PCC Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts ‘privileged’ at Derbyshire’s inclusion in trailblazing national pilot to prevent youth crime and violence Derbyshire has been chosen as one of only three national non-Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) pathfinder areas in the country to lead the Young Futures pilot from October 2025 to March 2026. The new government pilot aims to prevent

A woman has died following a collision on the A61 Dronfield Bypass today (9 Oct). Police were called to reports that a woman had been seen walking on the A61 Dronfield Bypass at around 5.10am A short while later, just after 5.20am a car collided with the woman on the northbound carriageway – just before

Hundreds of people from across the East Midlands came together in Nottingham today (Monday 6 October) to back a powerful regional drive to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and Deputy PCCs from across the region joined survivors, charities, health leaders, educators, and frontline officers at Goosedale in Papplewick,

Save Farley Moor Wood Campaigners Turn Out In Force In Opposition To A Holiday Park Scheme, Near Matlock, Courtesy Of Sfm Campaigners who are fighting to preserve a Derbyshire woodland from a planned holiday park fear the scheme could pose wildfire risks if planners give it the go-ahead. The Save Farley Moor campaigners have already

Derbyshire County Council has voted by a majority to oppose the development of large-scale solar-panel farms and battery energy storage systems on greenfield sites in the county in what it claims is a bid to protect the area’s countryside and food security. Council Leader Alan Graves’ motion was approved during the Reform UK-led authority’s Full

Derbyshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts was on hand to greet 60 new recruits to Derbyshire Constabulary during their training at Ripley Headquarters. The new officers will initially work within response policing, attending 999 calls and working alongside colleagues, including our Safer Neighbourhood Teams, to ensure our communities continue to be a safe place