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Patients would be able to dim the lights, control the temperature and play music via Bluetooth at new multi-million-pound mental health facilities being built in Derbyshire. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is leading the construction of £150 million new mental health facilities in Chesterfield and Derby – dubbed the “making room for dignity” project –

A concerned MP and a determined councillor who are continuing to campaign to reduce traffic congestion along the busy A61 road through a north Derbyshire town are urging residents to take part in their consultation survey in a bid to secure funding for a new highways redevelopment. NE Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley and Derbyshire County

Three men have been charged in connection with burglaries at homes in the Baslow and Monyash areas of the Derbyshire Dales. Brandon Hollingworth, 26, and Rocco Carr, 20, both of Danewood Gardens, Sheffield, were arrested on 18 April. The pair were then charged and remanded into police custody on 27 April. Ronnie Coleman, 21, of

Protesters lined the steps of Derbyshire council’s headquarters calling for the authority not to close ten Children’s Centres and to rethink its plans to close up to 11 elderly care homes as part of strategies aimed at overcoming an estimated budget deficit of nearly £40m. But the Conservative-led county council approved the closure of ten

A holiday lodge developer has been given a year to remove dozens of unlawful concrete bases, stone boulder walls and a road, reprofile an entire hillside and replant 100 trees it illegally felled. Government inspector John Felgate has largely ruled against Anthony Barney, owner of Haytop Country Park – on the hillside above Whatstandwell –

North Derbyshire planners have given the go-ahead for the on-going massive Egstow Park residential and commercial development at Clay Cross to be altered with the introduction of more housing, the loss of employment land., and the relocation of a leisure and recreation area. The planning committee of NE Derbyshire District Council approved applicant St Modwen

Campaigners who have been concerned about how the controversial owners of land near a Derbyshire Peak District village have been trying to develop the beauty spot are urging the proprietors to sell their plot after claims that Natural England has offered to buy the land. Cressbrook Dale residents launched the Save Cressbrook Dale campaign about

A Conservative councillor says he would rather “s*** in his hands and clap” than vote to close a care home, among 11 which could be shut by his party’s administration. Cllr Nigel Gourlay, who represents the Chapel and Hope Valley division on Derbyshire County Council, has made it clear he will be rebelling against his

Plans to turn a North Derbyshire quarry into a water park resort could be inching towards a decision after more than two years in limbo. BMET Limited submitted its plans to turn Crich Quarry into a water park resort more than two years ago, with several years before that involving further development and negotiations. Now

Chesterfield celebrated their return to the Football League with an open top bus parade which ended at the Town Hall as thousands of fans joined the team to share in the joy of their amazing National League triumph. North Derbyshire Radio's Joshua Smith spoke to Chesterfield striker Will Grigg North Derbyshire Radio's Joshua Smith spoke