Erewash News
18/04/2024: Officers from the Long Eaton Safer Neighbourhood Policing Teams have seized a large quantity of vapes with an estimated value of £300 during a routine patrol.
18/04/2024: Michael Dallard from Long Eaton had been training for the London Marathon this weekend after receiving a place through his employer.
18/04/2024: A repeat cross-border shop thief has been jailed and banned from entering 12 stores in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Prolific offender Billy-Jean Summers targeted stores in Long Eaton and Sandiacre along with Chilwell and Wollaton in Nottinghamshire between 8th March and 5th April 2024.
18/04/2024: Erewash MP Maggie Throup OBE has pledged her support to a landmark Bill that will create a smokefree generation and tackle underage vaping.
17/04/2024: Secretary of State Mark Harper has pledged possible investment for ten new trains at Derby’s Alstom train factory, following a campaign led by Marketing Derby and backed by over 200 East Midlands Chamber members and over 300 Derby Bondholders.
17/04/2024: Inflation has fallen to 3.2% (from 3.4%) for the month of March in the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics.
16/04/2024: Residents who feared part of a former golf course could be sold to developers have learned from council chiefs that it WON’T – and that ALL the land will be turned into a new nature reserve for the community.
16/04/2024: The amount of economically active people (aged 16+) in the East Midlands has risen 0.8% over the last year, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
16/04/2024: Local companies and organisations are being invited to recapture their childhoods and compete in a series of fun sporting challenges based on the traditional school sports day.
16/04/2024: Derbyshire County Council made offers of infant, primary and junior school places to approximately 10,300 children on Tuesday 16th April.