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CS gas used in Derby street as police officer injured
POLICE have used CS gas to break up fighting in a Normanton street, which left one officer injured and needing hospital treatment. A man was arrested on suspicion of assault after fighting broke out in...
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A mobile police station will help in crime fight
A MOBILE police station in Amber Valley has been kitted out with CCTV cameras and monitoring equipment.Supported by the local district and borough community safety partnership, the van can be used by...
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Bishops Drive, Oakwood, flooded after massive thunderstorm
HEAVY rain has caused parts of Bishops Drive, in Oakwood, to become severely flooded. Several people have contacted the Derby Telegraph to say the road appears impassable - but drivers are still...
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Massive thunderstorm hits Derby
A MASSIVE thunderstorm with torrential rain hit Derby this afternoon. Derbyshire fire service was inundated with calls to flash floods in almost every area around the city, including Borrowash,...
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Caribbean carnival brings colour and rhythm to Derby streets
TWO days of carnival fun - Caribbean-style - got off to a great start in Derby on Saturday. A procession eventually set off from Pear Tree after a delay caused by items still being wet from Friday's...
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Drunken man drove partner's Mercedes into parked cars in Derby street
A FOOTBALL fan got a suspended jail term after writing off his girlfriend's prized Mercedes by crashing into five cars parked on a Derby street.Jevgeni Fedorivic, 23, had watched a World Cup game when...
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Derby streets become rivers as a month's worth of rain falls in one day
ALMOST as much rain in Derby fell in a couple of hours on Saturday as there would normally be for the whole of July.A downpour around lunchtime for about one hour, followed by a torrential storm just...
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Sports centre and court building "set on fire" in Derbyshire
ARSONISTS are thought to have set fire to a sports centre and former court building last night. The two buildings – within a mile of each other in Chesterfield – went up in flames between 10.30pm and...
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New homes and jobs hope for next stage of Osmaston regeneration
NEW jobs could be created on the site of a former Rolls-Royce foundry, a World War Two memorial erected and 100 homes built as part of a swathe of new plans to regenerate Osmaston.Part of Osmaston Park...
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New job supporting Derby City Council leader will pay up to £41,000 a year
A NEW role of "executive support officer" for the leader of Derby City Council has been created with pay of up to £41,000 a year.The job replaces the role of personal assistant to the leader but will...
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10 stupid reasons for hard-shoulder misuse
A driver decided to pull over after seeing the word fire on their dashboard, from the Adele song Set Fire to the Rain. The barmy reason was one of ten which the Highways Agency traffic officers were...
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Derbyshire police hailed as great crime-fighters AND cost-busters
DERBYSHIRE police have been praised in a national report for continuing to reduce crime while working to a tighter budget.In the Policing in Austerity report published today by HM Inspectorate of...
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Derbyshire police user of Tasers is below national average figure
A NATIONAL review of Taser use by police forces ranks Derbyshire as below average.The report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published today reveals that, last year, Tasers were...
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Death threats to Derby TV model Maria Fowler
DERBY TV personality Maria Fowler is being stalked by a sinister internet troll who has threatened to blow up her house and rape her.Police are investigating after former The Only Way Is Essex star...
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Derby would-be suicide bomber: ISIS extremists boast of beheading soldiers...
ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is a brutal terrorist group associated with the civil war in Syria which has taken over areas in neighbouring Iraq.ISIS is made up of Muslims from the...
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Derby would-be suicide bomber: Community leader insists city is no hot bed of...
SHOKAT Lal, the chairman of the Pakistani Community Centre in Derby, said he could not understand what "possesses" British people to become involved in a war in a country that "is nothing to do with"...
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Derby would-be suicide bomber: Kabir Ahmed was jailed for sickening abuse of...
KABIR Ahmed told his trial, the first of its kind in the UK, that leaflets he was distributing outside Jamia Mosque in Normantonand putting through letterboxes "carried quotes from religious texts and...
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Toyota silent on reports that new Auris is planned for 2017
TOYOTA is staying silent on speculation that it is planning to build a new version of the Derbyshire-built Auris.According to reports in some sections of the motoring press, the Japanese manufacturer...
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Derbyshire squash star Nick Matthew proudly carries England flag into...
DUFFIELD squash star Nick Matthew led Team England into the Commonwealth Games last night.The 33-year-old multiple world champion, who plays for Benz-Bavarian Duffield, was named as the squad's flag...
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VIDEO: Watch Derby County training at SV Stegersbach in Austria
WATCH video of Derby County players training at the SV Stegersbach stadium on Thursday as part of their pre-season training camp in Austria.The Rams were preparing for Friday's friendly against Slavija...
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