Politics

Belper’s historic tea rooms - derelict for nearly four decades - are finally set to be demolished and replaced.

More than 40 per cent of all secondary pupils in Derbyshire are in schools poorly rated by Ofsted.

Veteran councillor John Walker was elected mayor of Amber Valley - but never forgets his days as a binman.

A new radio station for people living with dementia proved a big hit with listeners as it launched in Belper last week.

A huge new country park could be created on former mining land in Derbyshire.

A Derbyshire council is set to pull the plug on a controversial and costly plan for future housing development eight years in the making.

Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham has said she will campaign for Conservative colleagues in the European Parliament election even though she wished it was not happening.

Just when you thought one election was over, another one is pencilled in for next week.

The Conservative leader of Derbyshire County Council has said Prime Minister Theresa May 'must see that it is time to go' - and claimed the Tory party is 'on the brink of implosion'.

Labour has seized back control of Amber Valley Borough Council from the Conservatives.

Tories at Derbyshire County Council have declared they will not take part in the forthcoming European elections in protest over the fact Britain has not yet left the EU.

Plans to pave the way for thousands of houses on protected green belt land have stoked a wave of controversy in Amber Valley.