Erewash News
06/09/2023: As the badger cull begins for another season, a representative of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has referenced a letter reported by newspaper The Independent which indicates that the Government is preparing to consult on new proposals to include the killing the badgers “on a targeted basis” alongside other disease-control measures.
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.
05/09/2023: Angelique Foster, Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner, has welcomed the ban on Nitrous Oxide, otherwise known as ‘laughing gas'.
05/09/2023: The leader of Erewash Borough Council has responded after Erewash Conservative MP Maggie Throup pledged to fight back against the introduction of a new so called "Bin Tax" from Spring next year, by the now Labour-controlled authority.
05/09/2023: Erewash Borough Council has partnered up with an independent free debt advice service for residents who are behind with their Council Tax.
04/09/2023: Green growth activity in the East Midlands has fallen over the past year amid a cost-of-doing-business crisis – but has still more than doubled since 2015, new research shows.
04/09/2023: Police officers investigating the alleged murder of Owen Fairclough in Breaston have made a further arrest.
01/09/2023: A further dispersal order has been put into place in Ilkeston over the course of the first weekend in September after incidents of anti-social behaviour in the area.
01/09/2023: A campaign has been launched by residents in Borrowash to retain and protect a long-term area of green space in the village which has been put up for sale by the new Erewash Borough Council administration.