Borough Wide News
11/09/2023: With the collapse of high street retailer Wilko gathering pace as store closures begin to be implemented, the Long Eaton branch has been included in a list of five Derbyshire based stores to shut its doors for good.
08/09/2023: Police officers from the Ilkeston Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team have taken to social media in anticipation of children coming home explaining a Police presence either outside or within school.
08/09/2023: Two men have been charged in connection with a robbery in Long Eaton.
08/09/2023: Maggie Throup, Member of Parliament for Erewash, has welcomed the announcement that Long Eaton Rugby Football Club (RFC) is set to benefit from RFU (Rugby Football Union) funding which will boost the women’s game.
08/09/2023: A burglar who, armed with a knife crept into the bedroom of an 85-year-old woman while she slept, has been jailed.
07/09/2023: The borough council's cost-of-living battle has been given a £25,000 boost using cash from the government to help people at risk of being made homeless or struggling to find somewhere new to live after racking up rent arrears.
07/09/2023: Maggie Throup, Member of Parliament for Erewash and former Public Health Minister is urging all students heading to university this Autumn to check their NHS vaccination records and get jabbed up if they are missing MenACWY, MMR or HPV jabs.
06/09/2023: Borough council planners have played their part in the start of a BBC TV initiative at Treetops Hospice forming part of the annual Children In Need appeal.
06/09/2023: A teenager has been arrested after a man was assaulted in Sawley.
06/09/2023: An action plan created by the borough council to help residents through the cost-of-living crisis was given the go-ahead at a crunch town hall summit – where Erewash councillors also voted on ways to plug a looming £1m+ black hole in the authority’s day-to-day budget.