Erewash Police officers are appealing for the public’s help to trace a man who is wanted for questioning in relation to an incident of making threats to kill. Despite extensive enquiries, officers have been unable to locate 31-year-old Thomas Stark, who is from Sandiacre, leading to the appeal and the [...]

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Thousands of trees are being planted across Derbyshire now the second planting season of the county’s ambitious Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest is well underway. Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest is a long term programme led by Derbyshire County Council to increase tree cover across eastern and southern Derbyshire and Derby. Tree [...]

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By Eddie Bisknell – Local Democracy Reporting Service A developer has scrapped plans to build a four-storey apartment block in a Derbyshire town after the site’s flood risk was increased to the highest level. McCarthy Stone’s plans for a four-storey block of retirement apartments for the over 55s were submitted [...]

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By Esther Ogonya and Helen Purcell A seven-year-old girl battling cancer is aiming to break a UK record and a Sandiacre pub is helping her do it. Amealia Kolpa, from Rowley Regis in the Black Country, has announced her dream of receiving 8,000 birthday cards for her eighth birthday on [...]

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An increase in Erewash homes being bought to house multiple tenants is seeing the borough council having to seek a legal dispensation so it can properly crack down on those getting converted under the radar, concerned councillors have been told. The town hall is on a mission to stem the [...]

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By Jon Cooper – Local Democracy Reporting Service The Government’s Home Office has insisted it will close every single asylum seeker hotel after Derbyshire County Council has called for a clear timeline on the Government’s plans to shut down the controversial system which houses a worrying number of immigrants seeking [...]

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By Jon Cooper – Local Democracy Reporting Service Derbyshire County Council has agreed to call upon MPs to demand a clear timeline on the Government’s plans to shut down its controversial asylum seeker hotel system which the authority says currently allows for as many as 565 men to be housed [...]

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Two horses have reportedly been euthanised after an incident on a busy road through the borough involving a number of vehicles. On Sunday 15th February, traffic was stopped in both directions of the A52 between the A5111 and the M1 junction 25, after the animals got on to the carriageway. [...]

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A Derby woman who was arrested at a Long Eaton property has been handed a custodial sentence, along with a a Stapleford women, both of whom faced charges related to theft. Aimi Turner from Drewery Lane in the city was detained by local Safer Neighbourhood Team Police Officers, at a [...]

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By Eddie Bisknell – Local Democracy Reporting Service A move to lobby the Government for a timeline on when a Derbyshire hotel will no longer be used to accommodate asylum seekers has been rejected by council officials. At an Erewash Borough Council this month (January 22nd), the move to lobby [...]

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