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Busy Derby street 'losing its character' amid housing row

Residents signed a petition in 2023 calling for Brighton Road to be protected

Toilet Block Near Derbyshire Tourism Hotspot Set To Reopen After Seven Years

The former toilet block at Artist's Corner on the A6 near Matlock Bath were closed by the council seven years ago

List Of Six Derbyshire Car Parks Set To Undergo Major Parking Charge Changes In New Plans

Derbyshire Dales District Council is set to make many changes to its current parking charges

Chaos in Swadlincote retail park as crowds watch Citroen crash into 14 cars

Derbyshire police say no criminal investigations have been launched after the incident

Peak District Outrage Over 'Ridiculous' Parking Mayhem At Popular Beauty Spot

Police have repeatedly been called in to deal with cars abandoned by visitors

The Quaint Town Set To Be The 'Next Cool Place' In The UK After £100m Makeover

Buxton in Derbyshire is known for its charming Victorian architecture and beautiful landscapes, but now it's set to become the 'next cool place' in the UK after £100m makeover

‘Inside I was doing the Mario jump’ – how one artist became a key player in Nintendo’s story

Takaya Imamura worked at Nintendo for 32 years before leaving to create his own game, Omega Six. He shares anecdotes from those pivotal years at the creative giantIn 1889 in Kyoto, craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a hanafuda playing card company. He called it Nintendo – a phrase whose meaning is...

The gig economy: ticket inflation is getting worse, so where does all the money go?

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and the Gallaghers’ ill-fated dabble with dynamic pricing have put the spotlight on how much we’re willing to pay for live music. But, on the other side of the equation, the costs can be exorbitant and the risks are eye-wateringThe news that Oasis were to reunite sparked a w...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House

Large, gruesome, brutal and gluttonous: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?The animated film Shrek opens with the eponymous hero wiping his bottom on a book. Shrek then emerges from the toilet and we follow his swamp-savvy morning routine. He ba...

‘An unmitigated joy’: why Married to the Mob is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedyThere’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a delightful nonsense song that mi...

Share your tributes and memories of David Lynch – and your most Lynchian photograph

We would like to hear your memories of David Lynch, as well as whether you are attending today’s global group transcendental mediation at noon PT David Lynch, the maverick American director, has died aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries and made a string of influential, criticall...

Man injured in rush-hour crash in Derby as bus services forced to divert

The road was closed while emergency services dealt with the incident

Mother Father Sister Brother Frank review – frantic night of murder, mayhem and family bonding

This tale of nice ordinary folk doing bad things is a cartoonishly grisly comedy with a hint of Fargo, though without the off-kilter humourThe family that eats together stays together, they say. But the proverb will have to be tweaked for director Caden Douglas’s cartoonishly grisly comedy, in which...

Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture

The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuanceMatt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of...

We All Come Home Alive by Anna Beecher review – the pain of grief and joy of living

Beecher’s beautiful memoir, written partly in response to the death of her brother aged 25, describes in startling detail the highs and lows of existenceThe title of Anna Beecher’s first work of nonfiction can be read in various ways – an expression of triumph, relief or anticlimax. She uses it as a...