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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. Just visit our website and enter your email address.
As temperatures start to drop it’s worth a look at the snow pages on our website.
We grit and clear snow and ice from around 1,500 miles of roads across Derbyshire and you can visit our website to find out which roads we grit and when, how to report a problem with a grit bin, get winter driving and riding tips and read a checklist of things you can do to help elderly and vulnerable neighbours this winter.
Spot checks at petrol station pumps across Derbyshire have been carried out by our trading standards officers to make sure motorists are getting what they paid for – and the good news is you are.
Our trading standards officers spent six months earlier this year carrying out the checks at a number of petrol stations around the county.
Officers tested 147 petrol pumps at eight sites, as part of a cost of living project. They were happy to report that all the pumps tested were found to be correctly delivering fuel within the permitted legal tolerances.
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Are you looking for support to get a new job or improve your career prospects?
We have free, online workshops available this month and next. We're also planning further dates for 2024.
The workshops are for you if you're 19 or over, but 18-year-olds who are not in education, employment or training can also apply. The one-and-a-half hour workshops give information and advice on the following:
- applying to the civil service
- employment support for those over 50
- interview skills
- writing CVs and job applications that really work
- identifying your transferable skills
- applying for Derbyshire County Council vacancies.
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Are you an unpaid carer?
If you are, you're invited to attend an event hosted by Derbyshire Carers Association to mark this year’s Carers’ Rights Day on Thursday 23 November 2023.
You'll be able to find out more about your rights and access free legal, financial and employment advice at the event at the Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton, Derbyshire, DE55 2EJ from 10am to 1pm on Thursday 23 November.
For more information and to book a place contact Katie Matkin, email katie.matkin@derbyshirecarers.co.uk or tel: 07773 173416 . Free transport will also be provided where possible.
If you can't attend this event in person you can call Derbyshire Carers Association on 01773 833833 for support or visit our Carers’ Rights Day information page
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Tideswell Library is to be the second of our libraries to transfer over to community management as part of our Libraries for Derbyshire programme
The library, in St John’s Road, will close its doors at 1pm tomorrow (Saturday 18 November 2023) as a council-run library, and the community group behind the new venture aims to reopen it on the afternoon of Monday 11 December 2023.
After the library closes its doors, the group set to take over will be on site getting training and support in preparation for reopening.
Loan periods will be extended for anyone who borrows items before the library closes, and you won't be expected to return the items until after the library reopens.
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If you have friends or family who would like the chance of winning afternoon tea plus bed and breakfast for two at an historic Derbyshire hotel, encourage them to sign up to our Derbyshire Now enewsletter.
 Forward this link to anyone you know who would like news and information from the county council straight to their inbox. And if they subscribe, there’s a chance they could win a fantastic prize.
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But hurry, as the free prize draw closes at midnight on Friday, November 24.
New subscribers to the Derbyshire Now enewsletter, as well as current subscribers, will be entered into the prize draw to win afternoon tea plus bed and breakfast for two at Makeney Hall Hotel. Thanks to Makeney Hall Hotel for donating this prize.
Terms and conditions apply
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The free prize draw is featured in the latest edition of our residents’ magazine Derbyshire Now where you’ll also find money off vouchers for three popular Derbyshire visitor attractions.
Other items include keeping well this winter, help with the cost of living, celebrating our Trusted Trader scheme, and support for families.
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