A Derby magician has been left hopping mad after a hare-raising £429 city council bill – because he uses a rabbit in his shows. Littleover-based Stuart Brown, known to many as Magic Stuart, has been taking his white bunnies to magic shows around Derby for more than 15 years – …
Read More »Derby Royal Mail sorting offices could be demolished under major redevelopment plans
Derby’s Royal Mail sorting offices could be demolished “in the longer term” to make way for hundreds of new homes. A report into a major regeneration scheme for the city’s train station details potential big changes in the pipeline at Midland Road – where the company’s main Derby offices are …
Read More »Derby Royal Mail sorting offices could be demolished under major redevelopment plans
Derby’s Royal Mail sorting offices could be demolished “in the longer term” to make way for hundreds of new homes. A report into a major regeneration scheme for the city’s train station details potential big changes in the pipeline at Midland Road – where the company’s main Derby offices are …
Read More »Contractors begin work on 12 affordable new homes in Derby – but 6,000 people are in the queue
Contractors have been appointed as work begins on a dozen new affordable homes off a main Derby road. The new residential site in Barlow Street, off London Road near Royal Mail, is set to provide homes for families in desperate need of housing. Derby City Council has appointed Tanbry Construction …
Read More »New café and night bar planned for thriving Darley Abbey Mills in Derby
Plans have been submitted for a new café and bar at Darley Abbey Mills. The owners of The Lamp House have expressed their intentions to replace its existing photography studio at the historic Derby setting with a new food and drink venue. The site has been used as photographic space …
Read More »Derby’s ‘crumbling’ La Gondola restaurant to be demolished after appeal granted
The La Gondola restaurant on Osmaston Road will be demolished, it appears, after an appeal by the developers against the council’s rejection of their application was granted. Derby City Council’s planning committee rejected the plans for 42 new flats to replace the “crumbling” La Gondola building in January, on the …
Read More »Derby taxi driver loses licence and livelihood after hitting 36mph in a 30mph limit
A former Derby taxi-turned-delivery driver has failed in his appeal to get his driving ban lifted after he reached 15 penalty points on his licence. Jabber Choudhry lost his licence and his livelihood after going just 6mph above the 30mph speed limit in London Road, Derby. He told Derby Crown …
Read More »Call for flag to fly over Derby city centre to mark Brexit Day
A Derby Brexit Party councillor has welcomed the flying of the Union flag on the Council House on January 31, the day earmarked for Britain to leave the EU. Councillor Alan Graves claims he had personally asked for the flag to be flown because “it marks independence for Britain” and …
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