Borough Wide from Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Police officers from the Long Eaton Safer Neighbourhood Team on patrol have used systems available on the move to target a vehicle highlighted as being related to drugs activity.

Police officers from the Long Eaton Safer Neighbourhood Team have conducted a drugs warrant at a property in Sawley.

Officers from the Ilkeston Safer Neighbourhood Team are to execute powers to issue Community Protection Notices under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing 2014 act in a bid to curb anti-social behaviour around the Town Centre.

Hundreds of B negative donors in the East Midlands are being called on to donate as the NHS warns that supplies of this rare blood type are at risk of running low.

After inflation soared to 3.6% in June and amid fragile confidence from the region’s businesses evident in its most recent Quarterly Economic Surveys, East Midlands Chamber has said plans outlined in the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech may do little to boost gro

Derbyshire County Council has voted by a majority to agree in principle to opt for a new two-layer authority with a north and south split under Government reorganisation plans for Local Government arguing the importance of being ‘at the table’ to influence the process.

Financially-troubled Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Efficiency has told how the authority is ‘not out of the storm’ and it is ‘battening down the hatches’ and it has got to be careful not to ‘sink’ as he presented the authority’s final budget report for the 2024-25 financial year.

Complaints about Education and Children’s services are still dominating the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s casework in the East Midlands according to its annual review of local government complaints.

Mayor of the East Midlands Claire Ward is urging Marketing Derby Bondholders to share their views on how billions of pounds of government cash should be spent in the region.

Potential music events at a planned new Derbyshire village venue will not be akin to AC/DC playing at Download festival, the owner has said in response to noise concerns.

The East Midlands Chamber has reinforced calls for parts of the Employment Rights Bill to be reconsidered after UK-wide research revealed significant concerns from businesses across a number of areas, such as the speed at which the Bill is travelling through Parliament and the impact of policies on tax, employment and regulation seen as a ‘barrier to growth’.

Erewash Borough Council is set to approve an extra £2 million into public services and the long-term future of the borough through the Erewash Investment Fund.

A number of Marketing Derby Bondholders have been working with the police to make Derby city centre a safer and more vibrant place to be.