Planning permission has been granted to Netto to build a new store on the site of the old Kwik Save premises and Collingwood pub in Wansbeck Road. The planning permission includes more parking than in a previous plan which was withdrawn by the developer.
The Lib Dem-run city council has given the Woolsington Ward Committee £600,000 to spend locally over the next three years.
A leading member of Derby Labour Party has switched to the Liberal Democrats.
In a series of local Government By-elections over the last few weeks the Liberal Democrats have inflicted one defeat after another on the Conservatives putting pay to any idea of a Conservative walk over in the forth coming General Election.
Following on from her criticism of the budget proposals for the new Shropshire Council Heather Kidd has called for the escalating council pension costs not to lead to front-line cuts.
Britain's biggest ever subsidised industry - the big banks - bailed out by billions of government money are now back in business, raking in the profit; their main objective to enrich their top staff whilst paying paltry sums to the depositors who entrust their savings with them, and refusing to lend to productive industries who could provide real jobs. Meanwhile shareholders seem powerless to have any real control over these businesses, letting their top employees pay themselves millions in unearned bonuses on a grossly inflated scale of the real worth of such staff.