In December, the government published plans to merge areas where there are currently more than one tier of local authority - ...

An interactive map reveals the areas of Derbyshire which are most dependent on Universal Credit (UC) after research found that the standard rate doesn't cover food and basic necessities.

"It's a waste of money and doesn't make sense." That is one particularly unsentimental attitude one Derbyshire MP expressed to me about the county's current patchwork system of local government ...