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Councillor Hardyal Dhindsa has welcomed the council's AI Darcie Upgrade for online users. Image by Derby City Council.

Council's AI call assistant struggles to understand Derbyshire dialect

Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, approved the £80 million, 140 megawatt Oaklands solar farm, which will cover more than 472 acres between Walton and Rosliston.

Derbyshire’s largest solar farm approved by Ed Miliband

Mary Smail and the solar panels she unlawfully installed on her home in Church Street, Ashbourne,

Council drops action against woman who faced jail over unlawful solar panels

A north and south council option has been proposed.

Councils to elect councillors for one year to oversee demise of authorities

Harrington Junior School in Long Eaton burned down in an accidental blaze.

Reform refuses to pledge to install sprinklers in all Derbyshire schools

Alan Graves is a Derby South candidate for Reform UK.

Reform UK appoints its Derbyshire County Council leader

Labour has been given a ‘vivid wake-up call’ following near-total defeat in the Derbyshire County Council elections, its MPs say.

Labour has been given a “vivid wake-up call” followin council elections, MPs say

An artist's impression of the proposed Crich Quarry development. Image from Pennyroyal Design Group.

Controversial plans to turn quarry into waterpark resort temporarily shelved

A photo from Daniel Hay's public Facebook page.

Former Derbyshire doctor interviewed under caution by police

The current damage to Leashaw caused by the landslip.

Repairs to landslip-hit road will cost £1 million and be further delayed

The former Ada Belfield care home in Field Lane, Belper.

Anger over "derelict, dilapidated and dangerous” former care home

Derby County Court, home to the family court, in Derby city centre.

Dad-of-two had sex with his 16-year-old daughter numerous times

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

Amy Harhoff, the new chief executive of the East Midlands Combined County Authority. Image from the East Midlands Combined County Authority.

East Midlands Combined County Authority chief executive has salary of £185,000

The trial Demand Responsive Transport service van, operated by Derbyshire Community Transport, parked outside Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Charity providing transport for disabled and elderly set to cease trading

Tracy Allen, chief executive of the Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust. Image from Eddie Bisknell.

Derbyshire health leader steps down after 34 years

Campaigners in Cavendish Road, Matlock, including members of the Matlock Community Land Trust.

Residents campaigning to buy car park claim their offer is being hampered

Judge Coles said Derbyshire County Council should assist in any way it can to help the father find another home, fit for sharing with his two daughters, including potentially helping with a deposit for private accommodation.

Judge calls on council to help dad staying in a one-room bedsit with daughters

One of the nine most recent complaint decisions involves more than £10,000 being paid to one family after their child went without any education for four terms of school – from April 2022 to October 2023 - over a year and a half.

Council failures to support vulnerable Derbyshire children revealed

Greg and Paula Williamson, from Glossop.

Derbyshire family facing a year out of school due to insufficient support

The proposed Matlock Wolds housing site, circled in red, above Matlock.

Council set to refuse controversial plans for more than 400 homes

Derbyshire County Council's offices at Chatsworth Hall in Chesterfield Road, Matlock

Historic office block in Derbyshire town to be sold

What the 75-home scheme in Chesterfield Road, Matlock could look like

Hillside homes above flood-hit Derbyshire town set for their final approval

Mark Kenyon, Derbyshire County Council's director of finance and ICT.

Council chief uncertain he will be able to fill £33m budget black hole

The planned site of 14 homes, an existing garage and hand car wash in Butterley Hill, Ripley.

Staff at car dealership were unaware of plans to build homes on their businesses

Some of the Ramblers Coffee Shop and Cafe staff. Left to right: Helen Woodruffe, Heln Newman (assistant), Wendy Harrison (deputy manager), Margaret Brown (assistant), Sharon Brunellschi (assistant) and Alison Counsell (owner/manager). Image: Alison Counsell

Derbyshire cafe owners hit out at council, after lease not renewed

Leon White, co-owner of Chase Cafe in Leashaw, Holloway. Image from Leon White.

Derbyshire cafe owners fear landslip road closure could kill their business

County Council headquarters in Matlock

Job cuts at cash-strapped Derbyshire council not being ruled out

The Albion building in Bath Street, Ilkeston. Image from Google.

Urgent repairs to be carried out at hazardous Derbyshire town centre shop

The community group\'s rival plans for the Matlock site. Image from Matlock Community Land Trust.

Residents draw up plans to build on council's car park and playing field

Belper Leisure Centre. Photo: PKF Smith Cooper

Council set to give £150,000 to struggling Derbyshire leisure centre

The latest statistics for obesity in Derbyshire show that by the start of reception nearly a quarter of children (22.8 per cent) – one in every four – are already overweight or obese.
Photo: RADAR

Derbyshire health chiefs in new bid to tackle “wicked issue” of child obesity

The Peter Webster Centre on Sheffield Road, Chesterfield, is one of a number of council properties ear-marked for clsoure. Image: Google

Plan to close council offices in Chesterfield slammed as 'idiotic'

Derbyshire County Council is set to close all 10 of its Chesterfield area offices and move more than 500 staff into one new building in a bid to save money, including in the Market Hall in Chesterfield.

Council to close 10 of its Chesterfield offices and move 500 staff to save money

The council has fenced over the garden entrance to the homes and says there are no access rights to its land

'Spiteful' council fences over garden gates of two Matlock homes

Residents who want to buy a council car park and build affordable houses on it are being told they can no longer leave their vehicles there.

Residents told they can no longer leave their vehicles in Matlock car park

More than 2,000 Derbyshire patients are in need of vital autism assessments and are now waiting an average of over a year and a half for help.

Derbyshire patients in need of autism assessments waiting over a year for help

Staveley Town Hall

Chesterfield cash bail out saves Staveley Town Council from bankrupcy

Tongue of a child with scarlet fever - strawberry tongue.

Derbyshire health leaders offer reassurance and advice over scarlet outbreak

Crich Quarry could be turned into a huge water park under plans submitted to Derbyshire County Council.

Council demands more detail on controversial Derbyshire water park plans

Bouts of heated confrontations have allegedly occurred between residents and the family, with villagers blocking the access road with vehicles and replacing concrete blocks in front of the site gates

Family of Derbyshire Gypsies speak out about years of racism and violence

County councillors Mick Yates and Joan Dixon join Bolsover town councillor Cathy Jeffery and Bolsover district councillor Donna Hales outside Oxcroft Lane, Bolsover.

Derbyshire council chief denies claims adult day centres have been ‘mothballed’

Chris Ward, who lives close to the site in Upper Marehay Road

Plans for homes next to noisy Derbyshire industrial estate thrown out

Pauline Hill was treated at Chesterfield Royal Hospital by Dr Daniel Hay in 2003

Brave mum speaks out over Derbyshire surgeon whose work is under investigation

Derbyshire County Council leader Barry Lewis.

Derbyshire council chief disputes ‘super authority’ would cost taxpayers more

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