Campaigners joined a union-organised rally calling for financially-stretched Derbyshire council to abandon adult social care saving plans and proposed cutbacks including the possible closure of eight day centres and up to 11 care homes for the elderly. The Derbyshire UNISON rally saw protesters meet at Rykneld Square, in Chesterfield town centre, on Thursday, October 17,
Derbyshire council’s leader has expressed disappointment that other local authorities in the region have not formally expressed concerns over the potential impact of National Grid’s proposed 60km long corridor of electricity pylons across the county. Cllr Barry Lewis told a recent county council meeting that Conservative-led Derbyshire County Council has submitted an objection to National
A Derbyshire charity providing vital transport to hospitals, care homes and isolated rural villages for the disabled and elderly is set to cease trading after nearly 30 years, putting more than 60 jobs at risk. Derbyshire Community Transport, registered in 1996, operates a number of key local bus services on behalf of Derbyshire County Council,
Many of the trees are planted by large organisations but the general public’s enthusiasm for the scheme shines through by the fact that over 20,000 of them have been planted by Derbyshire residents to help green their local spaces. They have recorded their trees on the online map and often added the reason for their
A multi-million pound regeneration project is set to begin in Staveley in November. Chesterfield Borough Council’s Staveley 21 project, funded through the Staveley Town Deal, includes the construction of a new landmark building in the town centre, improvements to the market square and rejuvenation of the high street. Together the works will help support local
A man who went on the run with his teenage son after stabbing his wife multiple times and locking her in the family home has been jailed. The attack by Mark Taylor was so severe that the knife he was using snapped. But the 57-year-old carried on the assault on his partner after grabbing a
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Forestry England is the applicant and developer as per a misleading explanation provided in Forestry England’s own web link provided below for reference but on making further enquiries it has since been established that the applicant is in fact Forest Holidays and Forestry England is the
A decision to shelve plans to reopen two Derbyshire railway lines has been dubbed “shortsighted”, “disappointing” and “extremely wrong” by a leading councillor. In a Derbyshire County Council meeting, Cllr Tony King, cabinet member for clean growth and regeneration, hit out at the cost-cutting decision from central Government to cancel plans to reopen the Ivanhoe
Derbyshire County Council has voted by a majority to oppose the Labour Government’s winter fuel payment cuts for pensioners – which could see millions miss out on the allowance – as the authority also calls for a reversal of the policy. The Conservative-led council considered Cllr Stuart Swann’s motion at a recent meeting for the
Police are investigating a serious collision after four people were hospitalised following the crash in Clowne. Officers were called to reports of a two-car collision on the A619 between the junction with the A618 and the De Rodes Arms roundabout near Clowne at 9.45am on Saturday 12 October. The collision involved a Nissan Qashqai and