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We can email you the latest info on winter road conditions.
 Did you know that you can sign up to receive emails that tell you if main roads are closed because of snow or ice?
You’ll also get emails as the roads are re-opened again.
To sign up, visit our website and enter your email address.
We're looking for volunteers to help clear snow and ice from Derbyshire’s roads and pavements this winter.
We're hoping to hear from residents and farmers willing to help keep their communities safe when bad weather hits, to supplement the work carried out by our own gritting teams.
Town and parish councils and schools help to clear snow in their areas as part of our snow warden scheme already. Last year we extended the scheme to enable voluntary and community groups to take part. Each group is given a free delivery of up to a tonne of bagged grit, and given training on how to clear snow and ice safely.
Farmers and others with ploughing or gritting equipment are also being asked to work as contractors to help keep their local roads on the move from now until next April. Contractors will get £200 for signing up, plus extra payments for call outs.
Town and parish councils, schools and other community groups interested in volunteering can find out more and sign up by emailing snow@derbyshire.gov.uk
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If all the talk of climate change has left you wondering what you can do to help the planet, help is at hand.
 Our website has links to various websites offering tips and advice, including the WWF which has an online checker to calculate the size of your carbon footprint and what you can do to reduce it.
It’s all part of our Journey to Net Zero Derbyshire – a once-in-a-generation opportunity we’re leading to reduce carbon emissions generated in Derbyshire to help meet ambitious targets needed to tackle climate change.
We’re aiming to become a net zero organisation by 2032 and help the rest of Derbyshire reduce carbon emissions generated within the county to net zero by 2050 or sooner.
Net zero means reducing our carbon emissions right down to the lowest possible level and off-setting those that cannot be cut through measures such as planting more trees and other forms of habitat creation to absorb excess carbon from the atmosphere, making the overall net emissions zero.
Reducing the amount of carbon emissions generated in Derbyshire isn’t something the county council can do on its own. We need everyone to play a part.
It’s a big challenge but the benefits are massive. Changes we make now will help global issues like protecting our marine life from rising sea temperatures and local issues too like preventing recent extreme weather events from happening more regularly.
And action on climate change and reducing emissions can benefit our communities in other ways such as creating local jobs, reducing fuel poverty, improving health and wellbeing, avoiding flood damage costs, enhancing green spaces and improving air quality.
We’ve already started talking to businesses and other groups about some exciting new projects to reduce carbon emissions and we’ll be working more closely with the public in the coming months to support more people to take action.
Eligible people can visit Shirebrook Health Centre for a covid jab without an appointment next Saturday, 13 November.
If you, or someone you know, is eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine, please encourage them to come to a vaccination clinic.
A walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinic is taking place at Shirebrook Health Centre in Patchwork Row on Saturday 13 November from 9.30am to 4.30pm. You don't need to book.
You can get the first, second and booster doses of Pfizer plus second doses of AstraZeneca.
The vaccines are safe and effective and they are your best protection against becoming seriously ill from the virus.
Get it to protect you, your loved ones and your community.
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Have you ever thought about fostering and changing someone's life?
Why not find out more by joining our next friendly, informal Talk Fostering event online via Facebook?
It's on Tuesday 9 November, 6pm till 7pm.
You can just listen in or ask as many questions as you like.
We're looking for people from all walks of life to become foster carers.
You can be single or in a relationship, married or in a civil partnership, LGBT+, any ethnicity, race, culture or religion, working or not, and either rent or own your own home. All you need is a spare room and to be aged 21 or over.
You don't need any special qualifications but all our foster carers are people who care about and like children.
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England and Wales have been declared prevention zones to reduce the risk of the transmission of bird flu from wild birds to captive birds.
The measures apply to all keepers of captive birds from large-scale poultry producers to seasonal poultry keepers and keepers of backyard flocks and pet birds.
Avian influenza is a highly infectious disease affecting many species of birds, including commercial, wild and pet birds. It may also affect people and other animals in certain circumstances.
Find out how to spot avian influenza (bird flu), what to do if you suspect it, and measures to prevent it in the latest government bird flu guidance
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Our access and inclusion librarian Helen Cunningham beat off stiff competition to win the Vision and Print Impaired People’s category of the first national Libraries Connected Awards 2021.
The awards were launched earlier this year with the aim of celebrating the achievements of people working in libraries, recognising good practice and acknowledging excellence.
The national Libraries Connected charity, which is part-funded by the Arts Council, was looking for individuals or teams working in public libraries who have had a positive impact on the library service, library users or the local community.
Helen won the award for her work transforming the Buxton Library Listening Group for people with sight loss to an online listening group accessible to people anywhere in the county.
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One of our school catering service apprentices has won a national award for his work to reduce food waste in primary and junior schools.
Jovaras Rinkevicius has been awarded the Apprentice/Trainee of the Year Award at the LACA (Local Authority Catering Association) Awards for Excellence 2021
Jo (23) was selected as the winner by a panel made up of professionals from across the school catering industry.
The award is in recognition of his development of a food waste reduction initiative during his paid internship with our catering service in 2019. The internship was run in partnership with the University of Derby and contributed towards Jo’s Professional Culinary Arts BA degree in June 2020.
During the placement Jo ran the food waste initiative across several Derbyshire primary and junior schools – in one school successfully reducing waste by 12 per cent.
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