A metal sculpture of a woolly mammoth has been installed near Creswell Railway Station.

Students from Heritage High School in Clowne and The Bolsover School, were given the opportunity to learn fabrication and welding skills in an authentic workshop environment. These sessions have supported the students to develop their employability skills and plan for their post 16 progression.

The students all completed the course with a certificate in fabrication, earned over a total of 24 sessions, which they can take forward to help secure future employment.

The mammoth was designed, and then a prototype produced, before the final, large-scale model was completed by the students all aged between 14 and 16 years.

A £2.6 million pound refurbishment of the Valley View independent living scheme complex in Hillstown is nearing completion.

We have invested the money as part of our Safe and Warm scheme that has seen the full refurbishment of the flats and the construction of a two new one-bedroom bungalows.

Bolsover TV  went along to Valley View to have a look around.

A resident from Langwith has paid a £100 fixed penalty notice (FPN) for a littering offence.

The offender was witnessed illegally depositing a cigarette butt in Newton, contrary to Section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, by one of our enforcement officers in May 2024.

Littering is a crime and we will take enforcement action against all perpetrators of environmental crime in our district to keep it clean and tidy.

Littering FPNs are currently set at £150 paid within 14-days, or at a lower rate of £100 if paid within 10-days.

We have the latest in our series of ‘Unearthed at Creswell Crags’.

Most of what we have brought you so far dates back to the ice age with bones and fragments from animals such as the woolly mammoth and hyena.

Bolsover TV joined Dr Angharad Jones in Mother Grundy’s Parlour who tells us of a very surprising find in the cave.

A person from outside Bolsover District has been issued and paid a fixed penalty notice of £300 for fly tipping in the area.

An eagle-eyed resident confronted the individual who had come to Bolsover District to fly tip their waste on Hawking Lane in Stainsby in May 2024.

The resident took photos and supplied them to us so we could investigate the incident.

In this issue we introduce our new Community Woodland Project Officer who will be talking to local communities in the coming weeks to find out how people engage with our open spaces and woodlands and how he can help to improve our local environment further.

You can also read about plans to commission a new woodland strategy which will help to enhance our local nature recovery plan and enable us to make decisions about our woodlands and other trees.