Four people have been charged with drugs offences following a series of warrants on Thursday morning Officers executed the warrants at properties on Sough Road at South Normanton, Sudbury Drive in Huthwaite and Wagstaff Lane at Jacksdale on Thursday 13 June. A number of phones were seized, along with a small amount of suspected Cannabis.
The next phase of the regeneration of Chesterfield town centre is set to start in July – with experienced contractor, Thomas Bow, now appointed to take the project forward. The multi-million pound Revitalising the Heart of Chesterfield project includes a range of improvement works to transform the look, feel and flow of the town’s key
The newly-formed Chesterfield Town Board’s chairperson is urging people to take part in a recently-launched online survey to help shape how a £19.5m investment plan should be rolled out to improve the town. Chesterfield Borough Council has already agreed to be part of the Government’s new Long Term Plan for Towns scheme and to help
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