Borough Wide News
23/05/2023: Derbyshire’s specialist child exploitation charity, Safe and Sound, has recruited more local people to help raise awareness of the dangers facing vulnerable children and young people.
23/05/2023: Friesland School in Sandiacre recently had the privilege of hosting Sir Martyn Poliakoff, Professor at the University of Nottingham and the creative mind behind the popular YouTube channel @periodicvideosm, which boasts over 1.5 million subscribers and counting. Sir Martyn visited the school to speak to Year 7 and Sixth Form students, leaving a lasting impact on their scientific journey.
23/05/2023: Maggie Throup, Member of Parliament for Erewash, recently popped along to a parliamentary event to find out more information about dementia diagnosis rates in Erewash.
23/05/2023: New research from a study of 2,000 UK residents has shown that an axe, a stuffed snake and a tortoise are not the weirdest things people have been left in wills.
22/05/2023: Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster has welcomed new figures which prove her three-year plan to crackdown on burglary is delivering strong results.
22/05/2023: In a recent survey into the purchasing habits of pet owners by an animal healthcare brand, results surprisingly revealed that 77% of pet owners in the East Midlands said they would be willing to pay for a dog licence if they were reintroduced by the Government. The region drew the highest percentage of anywhere in the UK areas surveyed.
20/05/2023: Police officers in Long Eaton are appealing for help identifying two Good Samaritans who stopped to help a woman after an assault in a street in the town.
19/05/2023: The owner of an Ilkeston restaurant has been handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to four breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
19/05/2023: An ex-pat Ilkestonian emigrated Down Under, long before the Erewash borough was anywhere near getting its own local radio station, so he was 'chuffed' after recently discovering that he could listen to a taste of home in Western Australia.
19/05/2023: Communities across the East Midlands are set to benefit from £8.4million of Government funding for cycling and walking schemes, helping to boost local economies, and transform the school run for thousands of children, generating up to 16 million extra walking and cycling trips a year across the country.