Borough Wide News
14/07/2022: The achievements and commitment of students and staff across Derby College Group (DCG), including sites in Ilkeston and Morley, have gone under the spotlight with a series of celebration events.
14/07/2022: Ensuring the rail industry remained focused on the basics of health and safety management as it prepares for reform and substantial change, is one of the key messages in the Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual report on health and safety on Britain’s Railways.
13/07/2022: The Chief Executive of the East Midlands Chamber has commented on the latest figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which show that UK GDP grew by 0.5% in May 2022.
13/07/2022: Two kits (baby beavers) have been born in Derbyshire for the first time in 800 years thanks to a successful beaver reintroduction programme.
12/07/2022: Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service (DFRS) has partnered with Midlands-based smoke, heat and carbon monoxide (CO) manufacturer, FireAngel, to produce an innovative home fire safety jigsaw puzzle to engage over 14,000 school children as part of DFRS’s ongoing school fire safety education programme.
12/07/2022: Over fifty volunteers and staff have received long service awards from local charity Treetops Hospice – totalling an incredible 570 years of service.
12/07/2022: People driving, walking and cycling are being encouraged to give space and be considerate to other road users in the Government’s latest THINK! road safety campaign launched on 12th July.
12/07/2022: New figures reveal that 24% of children across the East Midlands were living in poverty in the last year, with national poverty charity, Turn2us, launching a new campaign to ask how many more?
11/07/2022: A caring seven-year-old from Long Eaton has had his long hair chopped an incredible 17 inches shorter to support a charity which makes wigs for children with cancer.
11/07/2022: Train operator, Northern, which runs services through Ilkeston Railway Station, has revealed details of light detection and radar (LIDAR) scanning technology it is installing across its fleet of 345 trains to make journeys by railway safer and more efficient.