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A repeat cross-border shop thief has been jailed and banned from entering 12 stores in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Prolific offender Billy-Jean Summers targeted stores in Long Eaton and Sandiacre along with Chilwell and Wollaton in Nottinghamshire between 8th March and 5th April 2024.
Erewash MP Maggie Throup OBE has pledged her support to a landmark Bill that will create a smokefree generation and tackle underage vaping.
Secretary of State Mark Harper has pledged possible investment for ten new trains at Derby’s Alstom train factory, following a campaign led by Marketing Derby and backed by over 200 East Midlands Chamber members and over 300 Derby Bondholders.
Inflation has fallen to 3.2% (from 3.4%) for the month of March in the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics.
Residents who feared part of a former golf course could be sold to developers have learned from council chiefs that it WON’T – and that ALL the land will be turned into a new nature reserve for the community.
The amount of economically active people (aged 16+) in the East Midlands has risen 0.8% over the last year, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Local companies and organisations are being invited to recapture their childhoods and compete in a series of fun sporting challenges based on the traditional school sports day.
Derbyshire County Council made offers of infant, primary and junior school places to approximately 10,300 children on Tuesday 16th April.
A visit to Erewash by the Archbishop of Canterbury saw the Church of England head surprise passers-by as he prayed with them on Ilkeston Market Place.
An event to address Derby’s rising child poverty takes place in the city later this month.
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