- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
Politics
Parked cars cause road safety hazard
CALLS for urgent action have been made over a road safety hazard caused by parked cars in Hayfield.
Whaley town councillors split over council tax vote
THE chairman’s casting vote saw a parish precept increase in Whaley Bridge of 4.96 per cent approved.
Chapel council precept
Chapel-en-le-Frith parish councillors have unanimously agreed a precept for 2011/12 that would mean a zero per cent increase on the parish rate.
New strategy aims to see allotment provision grow in Buxton and Glossop
TIME is running out for residents to have their say on plans to provide new allotments in Glossopdale and Buxton.
Another freeze on council tax
A council tax freeze for the second year running has been confirmed by Derbyshire County Council.
Chinley plans to be rejected?
HIGHWAY issues look set to scupper the current proposals for the planned redevelopment of the former Dorma factory site in Chinley.
Council post filled
COUNCILLOR Chris Furness has been elected unopposed to represent Derbyshire Dales District Council’s Bradwell ward. Cllr Furness fills a vacancy created by the death of Janet Goodison, a long-serving member of the District Council, in October last year.
Green light to turn off lamps at night
PROPOSALS to turn off some of Derbyshire’s street lights will be considered next week with almost three quarters of the county’s residents backing the plans.
1 commentYet another 600 council jobs to go?
A £25 MILLION cut in the budget and the loss of 600 jobs is being proposed by Derbyshire County Council.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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