Section: East Midlands

Richard Hall speaks to farmer Andrew Ward about how farmers are changing their views about Brexit due to broken farming promises.

Leek is a strange place therefore to find a plaque “To the memory of sons of France” but the connections go back to Napoleonic times.

Central Bylines’ Christmas celebration of just a few of the wonderful people and organisations from around our region.

Belong Nottingham and Beeston Hockey Club have partnered together to promote more active lifestyles to young people.

In a world concerned with the climate crisis and energy costs, the Bradwell Hydro project has conjured up some sustainable sparkle for their Christmas lights.

Matt Turpin pens a paean to the Parkway – the East Midlands Parkway, that is, the forlorn platform caught in the HS2 debacle.

Revive Healthy Living Centre is a charity based in Chaddesden, Derby. It covers the areas of Chaddesden, Oakwood and Spondon, as well as its heartland of Derwent. It is one of many small charities that have been working overtime through the pandemic and see first hand the impacts of government policy and economic changes.  Alongside […]

Buxton’s first ever fire walking event is happening in December to raise funds to help Peter, a local boy with neuroblastoma.

Lincolnshire MP Sir John Hayes supports new group fighting anti-woke culture war against the National Trust.

Driver shortages have a huge knock on as nearly 500 jobs lost in Derbyshire as logistics firms struggle to operate with a lack of drivers.

On the first anniversary of Central Bylines the team look back on what it means to them and the difference it has made to their lives.

Surrinder Chera on Making votes matter in the Midlands. How opposition parties can reclaim their share of the vote via electoral reform

In Part three of two academic years a Midlands head teacher concludes their account of the last two academic years

In this second article, a Midlands junior school headteacher describes what happened to ensure school staff and pupils responded

Farmers in Lincolnshire are being badly affected by broken supply chains. Brexit has led to a shortage of seasonal workers and lorry drivers.

The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, begun by UNESCO, is held on the 23rd of August every year. To commemorate this day, Molly Woodcock investigates some links the Midlands had with not only the slave trade, but also the abolition of the slave trade and slavery.

Derbyshire Dales council bailout Serco for the third time as the company fails to provide adequate refuse collection service.

Residents in Lincolnshire are unhappy with the nuclear waste proposal – will this lead to another ‘Lincolnshire rising’?

When Leicester’s Tara Munroe, an expert in Black Heritage and director of Opal 22 Arts and Edutainment found a stash of paintings ‘ stacked by the back door at Leicester’s New Walk Museum’ in 2009, she had no idea just how important these were at first. 

July’s Buxton Festival Fringe saw the debut of our very own Anna Girolami’s play, Laudable Pus (from Galen to Gallstones), a witty romp through the annals of medical history. The play was entertaining for old and young. In the relaxed setting of the High Peak bookstore, the highest bookshop in England, the well attended show […]

Summary Alfreton is considering allowing a 300 acre solar farm which would both affect local amenity value and remove precious farmland. Is this the right thing to do?