Yesterday, the Council’s Cross-Party Executive Scrutiny Board examined and challenged the Cabinet paper on the new, refurbished, Assembly Rooms plan. This proposal was part of the Conservative Group’s 2018 manifesto; the commitment […]
The pressure to terminate the Sinfin Incinerator contract is unceasing. Many locals just want it to close down and for the noise, odour and airborne pollutants to stop. They are calling for […]
High street banks these days seem to have lost that personal touch with nearly everything being on-line, on the phone, or automated. This may work well for some people , but for […]
Around 25,000 people in Derby ( ~10% of the population) are unpaid Carers – and the figure continues to grow. These are people caring for family, and friends who are disabled, or […]
Today, the Judge dismissed Ranjit Banwait’s petition against Cllr Paul Bettany. Had the petition been successful, Cllr Bettany would have had to have left office immediately. It would have also have had […]
In 2007, when the Sinfin Incinerator was considered an important part of Derby City Council’s “Climate Change Action Programme”, another initiative was gaining Cabinet approval, the Longbridge Weir Hydro Electric Power Station ( […]
30 Sep 2018 was the point at which the Council ( including Derbyshire County Council) had the legal right to cancel the Sinfin Incinerator waste contract. This was deferred to 31 December […]
The Conservative administration will be formally agreeing their plans, this week, to re-introduce a 52 week free Brown Bin collection of garden and food waste. This is, effectively, a complete reversal of […]
The Derbyshire Submariners led the services at the Cemetery, today, with their homage to ERA John Brooks (D/269639) and Signalman Charles A Buttle (D/J9244). Both men lost their lives in action during […]
The Enthusiasm Trust was recently presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services, yet, has few volunteers. It claims, as a small charity that “…more of your money goes directly to […]
Derby News reported a few days ago about how Boots were back-pedalling in the Derby Telegraph article on the issue of lost “prescriptions/tokens” from its Chaddesden store. Why is Boots, with the […]
On 23rd October, Derby News published Boots conceal from customers, breach of confidentiality ; 47 lost ‘prescriptions’ from its Chaddesden store which exposed the fact that Boots had chosen not to communicate […]
[The original version of this article referred to 400 prescriptions being lost ; this was the information from my source in Boots. Boots threatened legal action unless I reduced it to 47; […]
Since May 2018, there have been a number of reports presented to the Cabinet about gaps in the Council budget: 2018 / 19 – £21m gap ( £12m caused by the overspend […]
At the Executive Scrutiny Board last night ( 9th October), one of the many subjects on the agenda was “Improving Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Provision in Derby”. A comprehensive document which […]
The Council’s cross-party Executive Scrutiny Board robustly challenged the Council Cabinet’s position on the termination of the Sinfin Incincerator ( to be formally presented on the 10th October) “To defer any decision […]
In November 2017 the Council issued a consultation document on the strategy for Special Education Needs (SEN) children. Whilst the plan maintained annual funding, which is substantial at £55m pa, there were […]
PRESS RELEASE A Derby woman is putting on her glad rags and heading to London for a glitzy awards ceremony, after being shortlisted for a national special educational needs award. Karen Brownhill, […]
The Council’s Libraries Strategy has run aground! Despite overly positive rhetoric from Council Officers about how well the Libraries project is doing, the evidence does not bear this out at all. At […]
