South Derbyshire, England News

TEN taxi drivers have been handed fixed penalty notices during a crackdown on unroadworthy vehicles.

A SOLDIER who died in what police described as a E tragic accidentE1 4 is to be laid to rest in South Derbyshire.

ILLEGAL car E tradingE1 4 at the side of a busy South Derbyshire road could cause an accident, a parish watchdog has warned.

A CAMPAIGNER for tougher speed restrictions has given the green light to fresh Government proposals to let community chiefs introduce more 20mph limits.

A SOCIAL housing development in Swadlincote has been approved for a second time A- after the committee which had already voted in favour of it once was replaced in an E unprecedented E1 4 move.

A JOINER who spent years drilling, cutting and fitting asbestos sheets died from industrial disease.

CRIMINALS who knocked out the electricity supply in parts of a South Derbyshire village after setting fire to an electrical cable 'should be strung up', a councillor has said.

FIREFIGHTERS have extinguished a blaze at a South Derbyshire skate park. A crew from Swadlincote Fire Station attended the fire at the Woodville Skate Park, in Woodhouse Street, at 6.16pm on Sunday.

THE DATE has been set for the funeral of a South Derbyshire school teacher who died suddenly last month.

POOR broadband services are E killingE1 4 development in South Derbyshire, telecommunications chiefs have been told.

DERBYSHIRE'S hopes of a fair finance deal have been dashed by Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report.

COMMUNITY police officers in a South Derbyshire village will be E a third of a team shortE1 4 because one of them has been shipped out to cover another patch being blighted with anti-social behaviour, a PCSO has told a parish council.

BURTON and South DerbyshireE1 4s most talented young chefs are being sought to enter the final phase in an awards scheme aimed at recognising dining excellence.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS chiefs are to be quizzed by a community about E poorE1 4 broadband services.

PEOPLE living in a quiet Swadlincote street are struggling to access their own drives due to E bumper-to-bumperE1 4 parked cars left by town centre workers, according to three separate homeowners.

A WOMAN from Bestwood Village was one of 11 people who allegedly fastened themselves to diggers by their necks in a protest at an opencast coalmine site, a court heard.

PLANS to site a gipsy caravan on land in a South Derbyshire village have been approved - despite impassioned pleas to reject them.

THE INQUEST into the death of a schoolteacher from Newhall is to be formally opened on Monday.

FROSTY fund-raisers are aiming to raise more cash for the MailE1 4s Home At Christmas? campaign A- by lugging a fridge from Burton to Swadlincote.

A FOOTPATH row which has raged for almost a quarter of a century is about to be resolved.