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No relief in sight…
The latest figures for air pollution in Ashbourne have just been released and they show...well not much change really.
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District Council Elections May 2023 Manifesto published
The manifesto on which Derbyshire Dales Lib Dems will campaign for the May elections has been published.
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Henmore Brook polluted by 1881 hours of storm overflow in 2022
During 2022 this sewage works spilled untreated sewage into a small brook 127 times for a total of 1881 hours - the equivalent of 78 days non-stop.
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Have JCB dropped a spanner in the Council’s plans?
As close observers of planning applications* in Derbyshire Dales will have noticed, there has been a significant addition to the documents associated with a major application for a total of 469 homes…
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Come fly with me! Let's fly, let's fly away!
Whilst the majority of the British electorate is trying to work out how to pay their bills and definitely aren't consumed by concerns of how to heat their private swimming pools, Rishi Sunak swans…
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin.
On Wednesday the Commons Privileges Committee will be finally having its long awaited face to face questioning of Boris Johnson and 'Partygate' and we are all invited to watch on tv.
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Editorial Freedoms
Anyone with no interest in football and not a regular consumer of Match of the Day (MOTD), may have been perplexed at the outrage created by the BBC telling Gary Linekar to take 'gardening leave', or…
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International Women's Day
It will be hard for anyone to be ignorant of the headlines that have bombarded us of late, in which violence against women has been at the core. Violent, dominating or intimidating relationships are…
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Nepotism - the Johnson Family Way.
Nepotism: "The unfair use of power in order to get jobs or other benefits for your family or friends." Collins Dictionary
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RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT at last!
The Sunak administration is congratulating itself on supposedly pulling off a major coup in negotiations with the EU over Northern Ireland. This is rank hypocrisy.