An essential service for victims of rape and serious sexual assault in Derbyshire has now reopened fully. Millfield House Adult Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is once again fully operational following the completion of essential maintenance work, during which the Derbyshire team were working from Nottinghamshire’s SARC. The team provide confidential healthcare and compassionate support
Derbyshire Police are appealing for drivers who may have dashcam footage of a collision in Alfreton to come forward. The collision involved a white Mercedes Benz and a 14-year-old boy who was riding on an electric bike. It happened in King Street at about 4.30pm on Saturday 1 March. The boy was taken to hospital
Council planners have once again rejected a scheme for a children’s home in Chesterfield to the relief of many nearby residents despite the developer’s introduction of a number of amendments. Chesterfield Borough Council’s planning committee voted by a majority at a meeting on February 24 to refuse Dr Catherine Kemp’s amended planning application for a
Derbyshire councils are in deadlock over how to redraw the county’s local government map after the impending scrapping and merging of all its major authorities. It has become a case of Derbyshire County Council versus the eight district councils (Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire) along
Work to refurbish Barrow Hill Memorial Hall and create enhanced community and healthcare facilities has started on site. Barrow Hill Community Trust is refurbishing its historic home to create a social space for the community and add new facilities that will enable local residents to access healthcare services. With funding provided through the Staveley Town
Warnings not issued until six hours after homes started to flood, ignored sandbag requests, HGV drivers pushing floodwater into houses, failing sewage networks and blocked drains. Homes flooded above the height of their letterboxes and windowsills, cars submerged and one life lost. This is the story of Storm Babet’s impact on Derbyshire during the region’s
Thirteen blank firearms have been handed in as part of our amnesty in Derbyshire so far. Across England and Wales, more than 1,000 of these Turkish manufactured guns, which will soon be outlawed due to tests showing them as readily convertible, have been handed in. The top-venting blank firing (TVBF) guns can be handed in
A Nottingham man has been remanded to prison after cannabis grow and hundreds of wraps of Class A drugs found following a car being stopped in Pinxton. A Ford Mondeo was stopped in Town Street just after 11.30am on Wednesday 6 February. Inside the car suspected class A drugs were found. A further search of
A road past one of Derbyshire’s most popular hiking routes is where the highest number of parking fines have been handed out across the whole county. Rushup Edge, which runs past Mam Tor, above Castleton and Edale, was the location of 1,918 “higher level” £70 parking fines for “parking on yellow lines or clearways”. A
Cash-strapped Derbyshire council has agreed to sell-off a care home and convert two others into rehabilitation centres – despite a large protest with campaigners gathered outside the authority’s headquarters. The Conservative-controlled council’s Cabinet approved plans at a meeting on February 20 to put the Ada Belfield care home, on Derwent Street, in Belper, on the