Erewash News
08/09/2023: Residents are being encouraged to use Derbyshire County Council’s new online information finder to help promote their independence so they can lead the lives they want to live.
08/09/2023: The Midlands has come together to create two partnerships across the region to successfully submit a bid for the Government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund in partnership, alongside with Sub-national Transport Body, Midlands Connect.
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: 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.