Erewash News
09/03/2024: Erewash Sound presenter Richard Dawson, who spent over 50 hours on the air on an outside broadcast, has doubled and smashed through a £1,000 target.
08/03/2024: A series of senior leaders in local government and business in the East and West Midlands have all signed a statement welcoming last week’s £123 million to begin work on the Midlands Rail Hub.
08/03/2024: Borough councillors in Erewash have voted for a below-inflation 2.99 per cent rise in the borough’s council tax.
08/03/2024: A consortium of equine organisations including Derby College Group is rallying the industry to play a leading role in addressing the climate crisis and shaping a better future, with the launch of the first nationwide equine carbon calculator.
07/03/2024: Sophie Harris, an Advanced Practitioner teaching Fashion Business Retail at Derby College Group received her award for The Technical Teaching Fellowships for 2024/25 at a glittering ceremony held recently.
07/03/2024: Erewash Borough Council has welcomed a surprise levelling-up boost in the Budget – of a potential £5million towards “culture projects” in the borough.
07/03/2024: New research from Midlands Connect suggests Derby and Derbyshire remain on track for an EV boom and could see just under 66,000 electric cars on its streets by the end of the decade, with a significant increase in public EV charge points needed to keep up with demand. The new projections were announced at the recent Midlands Connect EV Conference.
06/03/2024: A spokesperson for the East Midlands Chamber has said that an increased VAT threshold to help small businesses and measures to get people back into work are among the positive takeaways from an otherwise “very safe” budget.
06/03/2024: An 11 year old boy from Erewash has amazed the stars of ITV programme This Morning as he showed off his invention of a revolutionary T-shirt – which has gone into production thanks to a borough council grant won by his dad’s business.
06/03/2024: A borough council salute to the brave men and women of the Royal Navy’s Flying Tigers helicopter squadron is poised to see landlocked Erewash grant them the Freedom of the Borough.