Politics

School climate strikers are planning their biggest demonstration yet in Matlock this week and are asking workers to join them in a day of global action.

Controversial plans to build 35 homes in a Derbyshire village are once again set for approval after being recalled by Amber Valley’s new Labour administration.

Encouraging drug or alcohol addicts to immediately stop their substance abuse is not the best way to avoid premature deaths, health bosses say.

The leader of Derbyshire County Council has warned ‘difficult decisions’ lie ahead as the authority’s funding is cut further.

Derbyshire County Council is set to get a boost of £10 million for its cash-strapped children’s and adult’s social care departments.

Derbyshire County Council’s leader has called the outsourcing of its caretakers and cleaners to Suffolk County Council ‘modern’ and ‘athletic’.

One in three black and minority ethnic staff at one of Derbyshire’s main health organisations have recently been hit with bullying, harassment and abuse from patients, according to a report.

Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a dramatic demonstration in Wirksworth at the weekend to call for urgent action in response to the climate crisis.

Dozens of frustrated residents expressed their outrage at plans to sell alcohol from a Derbyshire theme park hotel at a hearing.

Derbyshire County Council has spent almost all of its money for winter maintenance – and it is only September.

The county council is set for another multi-million overspend on children’s services.

Hundreds of caretakers and cleaners currently employed by Derbyshire County Council are set to be outsourced to Suffolk County Council, 180 miles away.

Redundancy letters have been sent to 31 youth workers in Derbyshire, it has emerged.

Derbyshire MPs have responded with a mix of approval and outrage after Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to suspend Parliament ahead of the October 31 Brexit deadline.

Derbyshire Dales District Council has withdrawn from the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership in order to continue membership of its Derbyshire counterpart.

Plans to turn a former Derbyshire GP surgery into a bedsit are set for approval despite more than 400 objections.