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Mayor Claire working to protect bus services following bus operator closure
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Mayor Claire working to protect bus services following bus operator closure

The Mayor of the East Midlands is working with partners and bus operators following the closure of CT4N, which has affected several bus services across Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, incl...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 days ago
Footage shows Dave Chappelle protesting Fugees’ set being cut short at Lauryn Hill’s Diaspora Calling! festival: “You’re fucking up history”
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Footage shows Dave Chappelle protesting Fugees’ set being cut short at Lauryn Hill’s Diaspora Calling! festival: “You’re fucking up history”

“You turned off the mic on Martin Luther King” The post Footage shows Dave Chappelle protesting Fugees’ set being cut short at Lauryn Hill’s Diaspora Calling! festival: “You’re fucking up history” ap...

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Couple had different dreams - so they opened a Long Eaton shop combining both
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Couple had different dreams - so they opened a Long Eaton shop combining both

The owners describe it as a 'one-of-a-kind offering'

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 days ago
£2m for new playgrounds to help get kids active
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£2m for new playgrounds to help get kids active

A record sum of almost £2million is to be spent by Erewash council on creating new playgrounds to get children more active. The borough’s leader Cllr James Dawson said the authority’s biggest ever inv...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 4 days ago
Erewash mill flats plan set for rejection
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Erewash mill flats plan set for rejection

The planned conversion of an historic Derbyshire mill is set for rejection due to the negative impact on a neighbouring business and flats being deemed too small. Bridge Mills, which faces the Erewash...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 6 days ago
'Dust devil' spins through London park
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'Dust devil' spins through London park

Footage captured in London's Greenwich Park on Sunday showed the moment a small whirlwind swirled around people.

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Derbyshire councillor shares ‘personal elements’ in bid to reshape adult social care
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Derbyshire councillor shares ‘personal elements’ in bid to reshape adult social care

Derbyshire County Council’s adult care chief has told how he is not immune to the ‘personal elements’ involved during the authority’s ongoing efforts and challenges to reshape adult social care for re...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 1 week ago
Major repair scheme for Harrington Bridge over the River Trent
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Major repair scheme for Harrington Bridge over the River Trent

Major structural repairs to Harrington Bridge which crosses the River Trent at Sawley will start in August, as part of Derbyshire County Council’s £70 million capital programme, which is delivering sa...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
HMO landlord ignored 'legal obligation' and hit with £1,000 fine
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HMO landlord ignored 'legal obligation' and hit with £1,000 fine

The prosecution comes as officials look at controlling the number of houses in multiple occupation

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
Reopening of major commuter route by force welcomed despite year delay
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Reopening of major commuter route by force welcomed despite year delay

The cycle route between the Nutbrook Trail and Erewash Canal, serving many commuters in the area, had been severed for more than a year due to a planning breach

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
Fined HMO owner’s £1.1k bill for ignoring borough council
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Fined HMO owner’s £1.1k bill for ignoring borough council

An Erewash Borough Council investigation into an HMO – house of multiple occupation – has seen its owner taken to court and ordered to pay £1,145 in fines and costs. The authority launched its prosecu...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
Southbound closure for Tamworth Road traffic
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Southbound closure for Tamworth Road traffic

Drivers using a busy route through one of Erewash’s towns face detours until December – as it becomes one-way while contractors crack on with giving Long Eaton a huge £10million revamp. Tamworth Road...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
SUMMER KIDZ: Boy, 15, is youngest ever to ask town hall question
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SUMMER KIDZ: Boy, 15, is youngest ever to ask town hall question

A proud schoolboy was congratulated by Erewash’s Mayor at a full meeting of the borough council – for becoming the youngest resident ever to submit a public question. Nathan Hayward, 15, wanted to kno...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
Honouring a Long Eaton ‘celebrity’
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Honouring a Long Eaton ‘celebrity’

Respects have been paid to a town stalwart as she made her final journey down Long Eaton High Street. Construction work was halted on the town’s main shopping street on Wednesday 29th July for the fun...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
Erewash hotel used to house asylum seekers has returned to the centre of debate
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Erewash hotel used to house asylum seekers has returned to the centre of debate

A Derbyshire hotel which has been used as asylum seeker accommodation has become centre of heated debate with officials. At an Erewash Borough Council meeting last week (Thursday, July 23) councillors...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago
Adored son and 'friend to many' in Derby Telegraph funeral notices this week
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Adored son and 'friend to many' in Derby Telegraph funeral notices this week

Our thoughts are with all those who have lost a loved one

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
'We don’t want your money' - 25% of drivers still paying on free parking Saturdays in towns
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'We don’t want your money' - 25% of drivers still paying on free parking Saturdays in towns

It comes as the council has rejected calls for wholesale free parking, increasing from the current chargeless Saturdays

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
Calls for dying council to 'go out with a bang' and spend £190k on flowerbeds
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Calls for dying council to 'go out with a bang' and spend £190k on flowerbeds

Calls from Reform UK involved spending all of Erewash Borough Council's money to 'go out with a bang' ahead of local government reorganisation in April 2028

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
New M1 junction touted in bid to beat congestion 'misery' around Junction 25
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New M1 junction touted in bid to beat congestion 'misery' around Junction 25

A number of solutions to tackle issues in the area are to be assessed

Derbyshire Live - Long Eaton2 weeks ago
French invasion as car fans have Avantime of their lives
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French invasion as car fans have Avantime of their lives

Erewash has seen an invasion of quirky old French cars that were last made decades ago in one of its twin towns across the Channel. Proud drivers of ageing Renault Avantimes flocked to Long Eaton on S...

News - Long Eaton - Latest and archives - Erewash Sound 2 weeks ago