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Around £2m has been given to projects to help boost businesses, create jobs and improve the career prospects of residents in the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales following our bids for government cash.
 Funding from the government’s UK Community Renewal Fund has been awarded to the following.
Better Futures project – £500,000
This pilot project will help unemployed people primarily in the Derbyshire Dales to improve their skills and find work locally. It will also help to improve the skills of residents who have recently found work, are at risk of unemployment, in part-time roles but wish to go full time or are highly skilled but in low paid, low-skilled jobs.
Derbyshire Accelerator project – £1.48 million
This will help fund a number of initiatives in the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales.
Do you keep birds? An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a commercial premises in South Derbyshire.
The case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, was confirmed after a visit to the premises near Willington by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) this week.
Further testing has confirmed this to be a highly pathogenic strain (HPAI H5N1).
A 3km protection zone and a 10km surveillance zone have been put in place around the infected premises to limit the risk of the disease spreading.
Our trading standards officers are working closely with emergency planning colleagues and Derby City Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and APHA to control the outbreak.
All keepers of birds in the disease control zones must follow increased measures while the restrictions are in place as a legal requirement.
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We would like to hear from you if you use Clowne Greenway in the district of Bolsover.
 Our recently completed route for walkers, cyclists, mobility scooter users and horse riders is proving popular already and we want to find out what benefits individual users or groups have found.
Clowne Greenway forms a section of Derbyshire’s growing network of such routes and we want to make sure that the needs of Derbyshire residents and those visiting or working in the county are met when we develop the network further.
So please let us know what you think about the Greenway and whether it has improved your lifestyle by filling in our questionnaire.
We've put together lots of advice and tips on keeping your seasonal spending on track as well as helping you have a more eco-friendly Christmas.
 So if you're looking for ways to make the festive season lower cost and waste free, sign up to our emails.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll share tips and advice on everything from planning Christmas dinner to low-cost ideas for cheaper celebrations.
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