Environment

While there has been a chilly start to this morning there will be pleasant long spells of sunshine today.

Nearly 100 affordable homes have been built in Amber Valley over the past year – while almost 1,800 people remain on the authority’s housing waiting list.

Dales councillors have unanimously agreed to send the authority’s new waste collection contract out to market.

Bolsover Against Fracking will be holding a public meeting where an expert will speak about the dangers of radioactivity.

Council taxpayers in the Derbyshire Dales will be bankrolling a fleet of new bin lorries despite the service being carried out by a private company.

Derbyshire Dales District Council is set to make a landmark move to build 50 houses which it will own and manage.

North East Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley is introducing a bill to Parliament in a bid to stop fracking companies causing earthquakes in areas in which they operate.

A small Amber Valley village is set to almost double in size with plans in the pipeline for scores of new homes.

The Hall Leys Park train which has thrilled generations of visiting children since 1974 is to embark on new adventures in a series of books.

A Matlock housing estate is to get £100,000 spent on it to improve the energy efficiency of its homes and help residents respect where they live.

Developers have lodged an appeal aimed at pushing through plans for a retirement apartment complex next to Matlock Town Football Club - on the site of an existing Ford dealership.

A newly-built house in the Derbyshire countryside may have to be demolished for “flouting planning law so flagrantly”.

A swan has starved to death after members of the public were told to stop feeding it bread following a viral campaign.

Ambitious plans to plant the UK’s first ‘young people’s forest’ on a former coal mine near Heanor are set to take a leap forward.