A Kirk Hallam woman is waiting on standby for a complex operation to replace most of her digestive organs, hoping it will give her a new lease of life.
Derbyshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a Crich pensioner was left looking on in horror as her Yorkshire terrier was killed by another dog.
A babysitter has been banned from keeping animals after he smashed and killed a pet ferret with a marble slab and threw another at a fence in front of horrified children.
Officers from Derbyshire Roads Policing Unit are to go undercover as part of the national campaign to crack down on drivers using mobile phones at the wheel.
Car wheels, road signs, a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of plastic bottles and a scooter were just some of the items pulled from one Derbyshire river during a huge clean-up.