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Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing a lawsuit over Test and Trace - here's...

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

Colin might feel like part of the family - but how well do you know him? (Photo: M&S)

13 things you (probably) didn't know about Colin the Caterpillar as the cake tur...

Harding runs England’s heavily criticised NHS Test and Trace system (Photo: PA)

Dido Harding has been appointed to run the new national body that will replace P...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the furlough scheme as a response to economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A quarter of UK workers are now furloughed - and unemployment levels could rocke...

Boris Johnson's choice of name for son could mark out his future

Here's whether the Prime Minister will take time off after the birth of his baby...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recuperating at his official country retreat after being discharged from hospital (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Chequers country estate - where Boris Johnson...

Mark Walker with Jerome Kaino

Rugby-mad volunteer rubs shoulders with world’s best players, gets the nod from ...

Daniel Payne

INSPIRATIONAL: Teenage cancer victim Daniel praised by David Cameron after award

LETTER: Cameron should improve refugee offer

Bassetlaw MP John Mann

Worksop: Bassetlaw could only accommodate ‘small handful’ of refugees, says John...

Brian Close wore many blows during his career for the good of the team

Danny Hall: Remembering Yorkshire and England's Brian Close, one of the greatest...

Prime Minister David Cameron, Transport Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy and Dr Fiona Moore, Chief Executive of London Ambulance, carry wreathes at the July 7 memorial in Hyde Park, London, as Britain remembers the July 7 attacks amid a welter of warnings about the enduring and changing threat from terrorism a decade on.

VIDEO: 7/7 Anniversary - David Cameron pays tribute to victims

John Stollery, who died in Tunisia.

Minute silence for Tunisia victims

Flowers at the scene of the massacre in Sousse as sources warned the British death toll could rise (PA).

NATIONAL NEWS: Minute’s silence this Friday to remember Tunisia terror attack vi...

Worksop: Bassetlaw MP, John Mann, has demanded truck drivers are better protecte...

Chris Glover

Cricket column: The Gloves are off!

NEWS: The Gainsborough Standard

Lincs: YMCA to host charity ball to help tackle homelessness

Richie Benaud has died at 84

Notts joins sporting world in mourning cricketing legend Richie Benaud

Prime Minister David Cameron (left) and Chancellor George Osborne (right) address workers at the Bombardier Transportation site in Derby, where Mr Osborne announced £5.2 billion investment in road and rail projects in the Midlands as part of a plan he said could create 300,000 new jobs in the region by 2020. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday February 12, 2015. Improvements could include the electrification of rail lines linking Birmingham to Bristol and Derby, as well as the widening of sections of the M1 and M5 motorways. See PA story POLITICS Midlands. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

VIDEO: 30,000 new jobs promised for East Midlands

Prime Minister David Cameron. Pic: Peter Macdiarmid/PA Wire

Video: David Cameron: No harm done by hoax call

British Gas is to cut household gas prices by 5% Pic: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Average British Gas bill cut by £37

Work on £400million Derbyshire tourism development to start in spring

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US investor is ‘excited’ about £400m Derbyshire tourism project
The US investor in a £400million tourism development which promises to boost trade in the Peak District and Derbyshire has said he is ‘excited’ about creating a world class leisure resort.

Firearms cost hike proposed

Businesses bosses call for overhaul of ‘broken business rates’ in bid to save ou...

Picture shows a man being arrested after Prime Minister David Cameron left Leeds Civic Hall after a conference on the planned HS2 rail links. See Ross Parry copy RPYCAMERON rossparry.co.uk / Steven Schofield

VIDEO: Security fears raised after man runs into Prime Minister David Cameron du...

Is William Hague is our greatest living Yorkshireman?

Is William Hague our greatest living Yorkshireman?

UPDATE: Greenpeace activists released pending full investigation after blocking ...

Is it time to talk about English independence?

Police

Notts: Police and Crime Commissioner urges PM to increase firearms licencing fee...

Police will be carrying out more visible patrols after the national terror threat alert level was raised

Notts: Police patrols to be stepped up in response to raised terror alert threat

Videos of the week

The best videos from around the region this week

John Mann has called on David Cameron to dismiss Maria Miller from Cabinet

Bassetlaw: Mann calls for Maria Miller to be dismissed from Parliament after exp...

John Mann MP (left) and Bassetlaw councillors deliver the petition to Downing Street

Bassetlaw: Mann backs petition calling for Prime Minister David Cameron to put a...

Coun Alan Rhodes, leader of Notts County Council with some of the Fair Deal petitions

Notts: Final chance to urge Prime Minister to stop ‘unfair’ cuts

David Cameron visits IGas

VIDEO: David Cameron visits IGas in Gainsborough

Cuts simply destroying the police

John Mann MP is angry at proposed health cuts for Bassetlaw

Bassetlaw: Mann slams proposed cuts to health budgets

Proud of our country

Kevin Barron

Rother Valley: Barron calls on Prime Minister to help fight breast cancer
Rother Valley MP Kevin Barron is to contact Prime Minister David Cameron to urge him to make the issue of access to breast cancer drugs a top priority and put the cause back on the agenda.

Edward Leigh MP

Gainsborough: Edward Leigh MP speaks about Syria in Parliament

VIDEO: No quick fixes, says PM in New Year message

Mercury Music Prize nominee heads to Lincoln

Review: Birds of a Feather at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield

Famous chefs in Marton cookbook

Pie tax will depend on the weather

MP says turbines ‘offensive’

VIDEO - Prime Minister David Cameron announces “This is the year we go for it”

MP’s EU vote

PM hails future without Gaddafi - VIDEO