High Peak MP Ruth George began the parliament’s summer recess by heading out in the middle of the night with a Derbyshire Wildlife Trust badger vaccination team.
The county council is set to spend £26,000 rolling out free food waste bag trials to tackle the mounting cost of sending 57,000 tonnes of leftovers to landfill each year.
Peak District gamekeepers have renewed calls for an upcoming Chinese lantern festival to be snuffed out after seeing the devastation caused by the huge wildfire on Saddleworth Moor.
The head teacher of a primary school a few hundred metres from a proposed shale gas drilling site fears that parents will remove their children from the area if the plans are approved.
Three major Derbyshire roads, which are considered to be among the most dangerous in the UK, are set to be revamped as part of the government’s new ‘Safer Roads Fund’.
A national public transport organisation is to hold an event in Matlock later this month to show its support for efforts to re-establish rail services on the line towards Buxton.
The Campaign for National Parks charity has welcomed the Westminster Government’s announcement of Julian Glover as the chair of a 21st century “Hobhouse” review into England’s National Parks.
The Met Office has this morning upgraded its weather warnings for parts of Yorkshire as the much heralded Beast from the East blows in freezing temperatures and wintry showers from Siberia.
