There are three Sinfin Play Areas out of the ten identified for the whole of the City of Derby by Derby City Council for closure:

• There is one on Sinfin Moor Park which is different from the other one there and one cannot replace the other
• there is one on Sinfin Lane Recreation Ground, and
• there is the one at Cotton Lane Activity Centre.

Three in Sinfin Ward out of ten play areas in Derby is not right!
It is unacceptable to us that we should lose any play facilities in addition to Sinfin Ward people having the former QDF site with waste handling facilities imposed on us.
We need more opportunities for children to be active in safe environments – not fewer.
We object to the council’s plan to close and not to improve our play areas and call on it to improve all of them so as to maximise the healthy opportunities for our children.

May 1 was a very bad day for the Labour Party in Derby. It signaled the end of an era and the start of a new one as the Liberal Democrats replaced Labour as the largest party on the council.

Of course it’s worth remembering that 19 of Derby’s current crop of councillors were elected on the Labour ticket. Had two of them not betrayed their former comrades, and the people who voted them in as Labour councillors, Labour would have remained the largest party.

But that is cold comfort. Even if Labour had been left with 19 rather than 17 councillors, May 1 would still have been a disastrous day for us.

Three years ago we regained control of the city following a famous by-election success in Abbey ward when Asaf Afzal’s victory gave us an overall majority on the council.

But as I watched the votes being counted in the early hours of May 2 I knew the game was up. The euphoria of that by-election seemed a distant memory. This year’s election turned out to be Labour’s worst defeat in Derby for 40 years.

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Labour’s Baggy Shanker is keen to involve local residents in the discussions about what happens to the old Rolls Royce factory site.
Speaking to Labour Voice he said:

“I want to make sure that every household in Osmaston is consulted and involved in the Master Planning for the re-development of the Nightingale Road site”.

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Gordon Brown has presented the Government’s new National Security Strategy to the House of Commons. In a Parliamentary statement the Prime Minister said that the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel. The Prime Minister’s statement

“The primary duty of government - our abiding obligation - is, and will always be, the safety of all British people and the protection of the British national interest. So following approval by the National Security Committee and the Cabinet, the Government is today publishing the first national security strategy.
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