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.
PD
4 Apr 2023
News Archive
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 on the old airfield site near Ashbourne. This is application 19/01274/FUL and its subsequent incarnations put forward by the developers Harrisons with David Wilson Homes / Barratt Homes.
PD
3 Apr 2023
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 around in private jets as if it's a birthright!
JD
31 Mar 2023
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.
JD
20 Mar 2023
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 whatever euphemism is used these days. Even if football really isn't your thing, it is significant that the BBC asked a freelance presenter, such as Linekar, to cease and desist from using their own personal social media account, to say something critical about the government.
JD
15 Mar 2023
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 all based on a power imbalance. Couzins, it has proved, is not an aberrant member of the police but one of a truly disturbing number of those reported for crimes against women. Aggressive, bullying behaviour, whether within the workplace or home is a reflection of an unhealthy dynamic, an imbalance of power. Until these insidious 'norms' of behaviour are called out and prosecuted, then women will continue to be exploited. It is easy to congratulate our society for 'equality', in contrast to others where women are openly subjugated, but equality for all members of a society is a constant battle and the erosion of rights and opportunities can be subtle and insidious.
JD
8 Mar 2023