Ilkeston News
16/11/2023: Laura Smith, a former student at Derby College Group (DCG) who now works at the College as a member of their teaching staff, is celebrating after being awarded runner up in the national Association of Colleges’ (AoC) Student Green Commitment Award at the Student of the Year Awards.
13/11/2023: A critically ill baby at the centre of a legal battle over end-of-life care has died. Indi Gregory from Ilkeston, who had mitochondrial disease was transferred to a hospice on Saturday.
13/11/2023: A VIP delegation from a French village where an Ilkeston woman’s brave RAF father was killed 83 years ago have visited Erewash to honour the borough’s war dead – after she turned detective to track down the hero’s grave.
13/11/2023: A soldier with a passion for motorbikes has seen his heroism during World War Two marked by a visit from civic dignitaries on Armistice Day – as he revs up for his 109th birthday.
13/11/2023: Northern, which runs services through Ilkeston Railway Station, has offered complimentary travel across the entire network for service personnel travelling to Remembrance Sunday services.
10/11/2023: Derby College Group outreach work to schools continues to grow and support a greater number of schools, with the Schools Liaison team and the Apprenticeship Recruitment team working with the majority of schools across Derbyshire, which includes Special Schools.
10/11/2023: Knitted poppies are among hundreds that have transformed the grounds of Erewash’s museum ahead of remembrance weekend – in a spectacular tribute masterminded by a stalwart of the heritage hub’s Social Stitching group.
08/11/2023: Ilkeston was one of a number of Derbyshire locations to be targeted by police officers during a week-long operation to target county lines drug dealing.
08/11/2023: A borough crusade against troublemakers gathering to drink alcohol on benches and in other parts of Ilkeston and Long Eaton is being beefed up – along with a crackdown on irresponsible dog owners.
08/11/2023: Northern, which runs services through Ilkeston Railway Station, has issued a warning to persistent fare evaders that, once identified, they should expect to be prosecuted for historic cases of fare evasion as well as the journey for which they were caught.