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Regeneration plans for Derbyshire have moved a step closer including the long-awaited £166m Chesterfield-to-Staveley bypass scheme after the county council’s cabinet rubber-stamped the allocation of millions of pounds of funding from the East Midlands Combined County Authority along with a list of potential projects. Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet approved Government-backed EMCCA funding allocations for the

Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts has welcomed the feedback received from residents and partners about the quality of policing in Derbyshire. Throughout 2024/25 the PCC continued to give residents and businesses a voice on policing issues through her ‘Listening to You’ engagement programme, amassing 3,675 responses across the whole of the force area. The

A town councillor has criticised the design of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme to revamp a Derbyshire town market place which he claims will block off struggling shops which are already suffering significant disruption during construction work. Staveley Town Cllr Mick Bagshaw says he has raised concerns with Chesterfield Borough Council and developers Stepnell who

Derbyshire County Council has given the go-ahead for £700,000 of Government funding towards plans for a clean energy facility on ‘farmland’ just days after agreeing to oppose solar farms and battery energy storage schemes on greenfield sites. The Reform UK-led council approved the Mayoral Renewables Fund grant money at a Cabinet meeting on October 16

Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader says a council tax cut would “affect residents badly” after election pledges to decrease annual bills for residents. Cllr Alan Graves, a long-term Derby city councillor and now Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader, said his administration felt stuck between a rock and a hard place over an impending decision on

Two suspected thieves have been arrested after officers deployed a stinger and boxed in a stolen van on the M1. A number of units including firearms and roads policing based at Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire forces worked together to bring the Ford Transit to a halt safely during a carefully orchestrated operation. We received a call

A dad from North Derbyshire has donated stem cells to a stranger so they can have a potentially lifesaving transplant. Jonathan Fox, who’s 30 from  Shirebrook, joined the register a few months ago, and received a call recently to say that he had been matched to a seriously ill patient. He travelled to Sheffield to

A woman has died following a collision on the A61 Dronfield Bypass today (9 Oct). Police were called to reports that a woman had been seen walking on the A61 Dronfield Bypass at around 5.10am A short while later, just after 5.20am a car collided with the woman on the northbound carriageway – just before

Derbyshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts was on hand to greet 60 new recruits to Derbyshire Constabulary during their training at Ripley Headquarters. The new officers will initially work within response policing, attending 999 calls and working alongside colleagues, including our Safer Neighbourhood Teams, to ensure our communities continue to be a safe place

North East Derbyshire District Council has set a date for a public meeting to reconsider reinstating a fishing club’s licence as part of a controversial terminated tenancy arrangement at a popular pond. The Labour controlled-council agreed last month for its withdrawn tenancy at the Wingerworth Lido for tenants Clay Cross Angling Association to be reconsidered