A Chesterfield woman who stood for election to Chesterfield Borough Council and was due to be a delegate of the local party to Labour Party Conference has been suspended for anti-semitism.
A thief with an “appalling” criminal record has been warned that if he commits another offence or fails to comply with the probation service he will be going to prison.
The county council’s children’s services department is in turmoil, with the demand for services and dwindling budgets continuing to cause headaches for yet another year.
The granddaughter of former Chesterfield MP Tony Benn has urged Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to call for an end to personal attacks on her on social media.
Derbyshire Dales District Council has successfully recovered a housing benefit overpayment of £9,878 from a notorious serial fraudster who used to live in Steep Turnpike.
Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins has come out in support of Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson - after he faced a barrage of criticism online for saying the party needed to do more to tackle anti-Semitism.
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’s head of finance says that if Derbyshire has another bad winter the highways department would not be able to respond in the way it did earlier this year.
There will be no “stay of execution” for the public toilets in Hall Leys Park, Matlock, despite passionate objections from nearly a dozen district councillors.
The board of directors at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has approved controversial plans to move hundreds of workers to an independent company.
There are nearly 650 long-term empty homes in the Derbyshire Dales, a situation which has been branded as a “blatant tragedy” and an “absolute disgrace” by councillors.
Car parking charges in the Derbyshire Dales will be increased for the first time in four years, bringing in hundreds of thousands of pounds extra for the district council.
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’.
