Category: Local News

Cafe, bar and restaurant owners in a part of Derbyshire may have to pay five times as much money to keep seating outside their venues under new plans. Derbyshire Dales District Council, under temporary legislation introduced by the Government in July 2020 adopted pavement licences allowing venues to put tables, chairs, umbrellas and other furniture

A driver who ran from the scene after killing a mother and fatally injuring her son in a head-on crash has been jailed. Joshua Hill was driving a BMW X3 on the A632 Chesterfield Road at Span Carr near Kelstedge on 9 December 2023 when he attempted to overtake a car in the driving rain.

The first East Midlands Mayor, Claire Ward, will be paid £93,000 a year and will have a deputy mayor on up to £46,500. In May, just over a quarter of eligible voters cast their ballots in the inaugural East Midlands Mayor election, with Labour’s Claire Ward winning by a significant margin, claiming victory in almost

A former pub landlady said she felt “sick” and as if a “dark cloud hung over the place” when a Derbyshire council announced her care home could be closed. Mary Biggin, aged 89, used to run the Victoria Inn and Red Lion, in Chesterfield, along with three further pubs in Sheffield and has been living

A judge has quashed a developer’s bid to strip a beloved former Derbyshire allotments site of protection in the interest of the community. Brian Newton, the owner of the former Starkholmes Allotments site, on the outskirts of Matlock, took Derbyshire Dales District Council to a first-tier tribunal over the future of the plot. The council

A 54-year-old man has been arrested in Chesterfield on suspicion of assault and possession of a firearm. The man was arrested by armed officers in Grove Way just after 6.30pm this evening (3 June) – after a report of a domestic incident in Brimington on Saturday 1 June. While there was a significant police presence

East Midlands ambulance crews across the region lost more than 25,000 hours due to handover delays at hospitals in the space of two months. East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) covers Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. Around 12,800 hours were lost in the month of April while crews waited to hand over patients to

The charity Crimestoppers is offering ways to help identify those who are at risk of being exploited and groomed into a life of drug dealing, along with the associated risks in Buxton. Buxton, at the heart of the Peak District, has been highlighted as a key area of concern for exploitation by County Lines drug

Hundreds of houses and acres of warehouses are set to be built near several toxic tar pits in Derbyshire. Plans from Harworth and Pegasus Group for 300 homes and 74 acres of warehouse and industrial space are set for approval on land north of Derby Road, Denby, on a site known as Cinderhill. The site