Snake Pass is one of Derbyshire’s most crucial yet notorious roads, crossing the Pennines and Peak District and connecting Manchester and Sheffield. It is a route renowned for being host to expansive views across protected countryside as well as being a popular cycling hotspot, but it is also notorious for being periodically closed on a
A vacant North Derbyshire pub which never reopened after the pandemic lockdown is now set to be converted into homes along with bungalows being built in its former car park. The Kings Arms pub in The Common, Crich, closed in March 2020 in line with the first Covid-19 lockdown and while the intention remained for
Four properties on Fairfield Road in Buxton have been closed after persistent reports of drugs and anti-social behaviour. Magistrates in Derby granted a three-month closure order on the addresses yesterday, Thursday 13 June. Officers from the Buxton Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team gathered evidence over a number of months of local concerns, incidents and action taken
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