January

We are urging Derbyshire Dales people to start 2011 by recycling and re-using as much Christmas waste as possible.

Derbyshire Dales District Council’s free health walks are proving so popular that more volunteer leaders are needed to step forward.

Well over 300 residents of a Matlock estate have signed up to an innovative scheme to keep their property safe with DNA technology.

Derbyshire Dales District Council has conferred its highest honour on our local soldiers.

One lifestyle change has led to another for Darley Dale woman Martha Sharpe – lucky winner of a free gym membership in a Derbyshire Dales District Council competition.

Young motorists and bikers are being given a cash boost to improve their skills in a drive to make Derbyshire Dales roads safer.

2010 is already a winning year for Ashbourne woman Bridget Brown after she won a free gym membership in a Derbyshire Dales District Council competition.

Derbyshire Dales District Council is likely to look for alternative sites for a new £100,000 outdoor multi-use games area (MUGA) because of the expense of addressing local residents’ noise concerns at the proposed Dimple site between Matlock and Darley Dale.

A Derbyshire Dales partnership’s crime-prevention blitz on a Matlock estate this week will give residents the chance to keep their property safe with DNA technology.

Derbyshire Dales District Council wants to hear about community champions who make a difference in day-to-day Dales life.

Derbyshire Dales District Council is sponsoring an event in Bakewell on 26 January that is designed to help local businesses during the recession.

Bridget Brown from Ashbourne is the first lucky winner of our website competition that invites Derbyshire Dales people to get the balling rolling in 2010 with a gym membership at one of our four leisure centres.

Derbyshire Dales District Council has issued the following advice, provided by the County Council

The 2011 Census is fast approaching and on behalf of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hundreds of temporary jobs are being created around the country to help it run smoothly.

Car parking charges in the Derbyshire Dales are set to rise for the first time in three years – but residents’ parking concessions will continue to allow local people to park free every day of the year up to 11am and after 4pm.

Derbyshire Dales District Council has hailed the latest Matlock Bath Illuminations as the best for years, with visitor numbers up more than 23%.

Bakewell’s Christmas Farmers’ Market was a truly brr-rilliant event as 5,000 people flocked to the town’s Agricultural Business Centre despite freezing temperatures that plunged to minus 9 degrees!