A preview of some of the leaflets that Lib Dems (re-energised after their success in the recent local elections) will be delivering in the next two weeks;

A4 version

A3 version

'Tabloid Newspaper' version - outside

'Tabloid Newspaper' version - inside

Here are some of the photos taken at the count. There are also a good selection on the Ashbourne News Telegraph website

Thursday's elections saw sweeping gains for Derbyshire Dales Liberal Democrats as they almost tripled their number of seats on the District Council, taking over as the official opposition from the Labour Party. The Conservative controlling group now have an overall majority of just one seat.

Full results are on the Derbyshire Dales District Council website.

What did you think about the Climate Change protest in the House of Commons on 1^st April? Not what they were or weren't wearing, but what it was all about? An unnecessary distraction from the really important business of Brexit?

But think for a moment. In the end, which is more important, Brexit or Climate Change? Our relationship with our continental neighbours or the very future of the planet and its human inhabitants?

Brexiters repeatedly quote the fact that 17.4 million voted Leave in 2016, often spuriously adding a date when "we voted we should leave" or the precise detail of the Brexit "we voted for".

But here are some other interesting numbers.

2 years 9 months - the time the government has had to come up with a Brexit plan, including a solution to the Irish border while keeping the Good Friday agreement. No plan! No solution!

It happens all the time in the Derbyshire market town of Ashbourne - two large vehicles meet each other in the narrow roads. It is usually the pavements that provide a way to pass each other (with pedestrians having to get out of the way) but on this occasion even the pavement didn't provide sufficient room and the two vehicles locked against each other causing traffic to back up through the town.

Now you see it, now you don't....

A very convenient bin, particulalrly for conscientious dog walkers, has disappeared. Located next to a bench celebrating players of Shrovetide Football and (fairly) regulalry emptied by the Distrct Council for several years, there is now just a plinth and some poorly directed pieces of litter to show where it once stood.

We urge the Derbyshire Dales District Council to carry out urgently needed repairs to the Bandstand in Ashbourne Memorial Park. It is poor stewardship of a valued town asset, that the Council have allowed it to fall into such a state of disrepair that there are holes in the roof.

Ashbourne Memorial Park with its children's play area, once boasted two shelters and some rather convenient conveniences to provide a solution to the problems of inclement weather or being caught short. Now only one of these remains and that has been closed. Two have been reduced to bare concrete plinths , and the conveniences locked and bolted.