On top of the main refurbishments, new outdoor fitness equipment is now open at Oakhurst Close in Belper. Sovereign Fields in ...

Lee Attenborough can become just the third Belper Town manager to secure promotion to the seventh-tier of English football, ...

A planning application is being drawn up for a crumbling historic mill in Derbyshire. Belper Mills, a historic site dating back to 1804, forms part of the Derwent Valley Mills - a Unesco World ...

It all started after when a Quaker was released from prison after refusing to fight during the First World War ...

Would-be homeowners, many of whom were first-time buyers, have been left frustrated by indefinite delays to a new-build housing development in Derwent Street, Belper. Developers on behalf of ...

Art and heritage will be celebrated in an event which will bring artists, musicians and creative workshops to the heart of a ...

A town in Derbyshire inadvertently started a new local tradition as a way to fight the coronavirus lockdown boredom. At 18:30 every evening for the past three weeks, locals in the town of Belper have ...

People in Belper have been expressing their thoughts and feelings following a "shocking" incident on Saturday, which saw two men allegedly assaulted in the King Street area of Belper, during the ...

Clarkes of Ripley has opened a store at 30-32 King Street in Belper to join its existing store at 8-18 Grosvenor Road in Ripley, offering brands including White Stuff, Weird Fish, Seasalt and Jacques ...

In 1850, the poet Thomas Crofts wrote of Belper: “It has nailshops past my counting, where men and women toil, making Roundheads, Forties, Clinkers, for the tillers of the soil” By this time Belper ...

Strutt’s mill heralded the arrival of a new age of mechanisation and mass production, and yet the nailers staunchly held on to their own way of doing things. Only one nail “factory” employing 500 ...