North East Derbyshire District Council are delighted to announce they have successfully secured funding from the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation to install a new 3G pitch at the Clay Cross Active facility. The 3G pitch project has been made possible thanks to a £786,000 grant from the Football Foundation, with the
Derbyshire County Council has launched a public consultation as it prepares to refocus its adult care services by supporting more dementia patients and helping more people to stay at home after it controversially opted to sell eight care homes and close five day centres for the elderly. The eight care homes the county council’s Cabinet
NE Derbyshire District Council’s political landscape has shifted after its only three Liberal Democrats have joined forces with a Conservative councillor and an Independent councillor to form a new five-strong group called the Derbyshire Independents. The new Derbyshire Independent councillors have now left the parties under which they were elected and say their aim is
Five people have been charged and 17 arrested as part of a national week-long operation targeting county lines drug dealers. WATCH: Week of strikes leads to five charges for drugs supply in Derbyshire Five people have been charged and 17 arrested as part of a week-long operation targeting county lines drug dealers. Police forces from
A single mum said she is ‘depressed’ after council refused to move her to a different flat. Andrea Barnes, a mum of two, who lives in a council flat in Chesterfield, asked the authority to relocate her to a different accommodation after one of her neighbours was bothering her due to her toddler ‘being loud’.
The first 300 of more than 1,000 homes earmarked for a former Derbyshire airfield are set for approval at the second time of asking. Ashbourne Airfield is the lynchpin of Derbyshire Dales District Council’s housing plans for the next couple of decades with the former industrial site earmarked for more than 1,000 homes and acres
Bolsover District Council Leader Steve Fritchley has insisted he is not homophobic and he is ‘truly regretful’ after a comment he made has been deemed to be perceived as ‘homophobic language’ concerning former Bolsover MP Mark Fletcher. The Labour councillor, who oversees the Langwith ward, has already been ‘administratively suspended’ by the Labour Party over
A £20,000 reward has been offered by Crimestoppers for key information about the death of a mother killed when she was rammed off an e-bike in a hit-and-run. Alana Armstrong, 25, was a passenger on one of two e-bikes that were pursued through Pleasley, Derbyshire, on Tuesday by a 4×4 and she died at the
Members of a cash-strapped Derbyshire council unanimously approved multi-million-pound plans for a solar farm next to a nature reserve in a matter of minutes. In under 20 minutes, Derbyshire County Council approved its own £3.75 million plans for a 25-acre solar farm off Mansfield Road, next to Williamthorpe Nature Reserve, between Chesterfield and Bolsover. The
Police urgently want to speak to the woman pictured who we believe has vital information in relation to the murder of Alana Armstrong. The woman was pictured outside The White Swan, in Meden Square, Pleasley, just before 8pm on Tuesday 26 November. Anyone with information should contact us, in confidence, using any of the below