Ockbrook News
28/06/2023: Liberal Democrat members from within the constituency of Mid-Derbyshire have selected Barry Holliday to fight the next general election campaign.
The seat is currently held by retiring Conservative MP Pauline Latham, covering the west and south west of the Erewash Borough.
10/03/2023: The Mid-Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham has written to the Prime Minister to inform him that she will not be seeking re-election at the next General Election, likely to take place in late 2024 or early 2025.
14/02/2023: Erewash Borough Council is offering support and guidance during the cost of living crisis for all residents.
27/01/2023: Erewash Sound has intervened after drivers saw red at a set of re-occuring roadworks in the south west of the borough.
11/01/2023: Ockbrook has been renamed 'Potbrook' by one social media user whilst reporting that a previously patched part of a local road had begun to break up again.
14/12/2022: Officials at the Ockash Trust have expressed delight at being able to visit a local school to support a recipient of a Citizens Award.
30/11/2022: With the aim to offer somewhere warm, comfortable and welcoming for people struggling to heat their home and/or if feeling isolated, Warm Spaces are being set up across the borough to run during the Winter months, using funding available from Derbyshire County Council.
30/09/2022: Erewash is celebrating another set of fantastic results at this year’s East Midlands in Bloom Awards.
04/09/2022: Passengers using the Ilkeston Flyer bus service from trentbarton could see an increased number of people on board after the firm said it would stop running four loss-making routes which have been severely impacted by the pandemic and which have no prospect of attracting sufficient customers, with the Flyer service running through an area in which another has been cut.
11/06/2022: The store manager at a Borrowash supermarket has taken to social media to distance herself from a potential row over changes being made in the village car park.