Here's today's bulletin, with news of how multi-milliuon-pound Derbyshire regeneration plans - including the long-awaited Chesterfield-to-Staveley bypass scheme - have moved a step closer
00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.
00:03Multi-million regeneration plans for Derbyshire, including the long-awaited £166 million Chesterfield to Stavely bypass theme, have taken a step closer.
00:13It comes after the County Council's Cabinet rubber-stamped the allocation of millions of pounds of funding from the East Midlands Combined County Authority, along with a list of potential projects.
00:23Derbyshire County's Council Cabinet approved funding allocations for the area as part of the Authority's Regeneration Project pipeline.
00:31Projects supported by the funding include investigations of options for the Glapwell bypass, the Chesterfield to Stavely regeneration route, as well as work on the A61 corridor allowing further development at the Avenue in Wingerworth.
00:44Little superheroes and their family have stepped up the funds of Ashgate Hospice by £50,000 after taking part in a sponsored night walk.
00:55More than 1,600 people supported the event, which was held at Queen's Park in Chesterfield.
01:01The charity's Superhero Night Walk saw children and adults dressed as their favourite heroic characters, including Wonder Woman and Captain America.
01:09Many were walking in memory of people who had been cared for at the hospice, which needs to raise £11 million each year to provide its services.
01:18Every child who took part in the event, which was sponsored by Motang Colertronic Ltd, received a superhero cape and glow-in-the-dark mask to wear along the route.
01:27Flamley's also enjoyed live entertainment, singers, dancers and bubble displays throughout the evening.
01:33The superhero knight raised more than £50,000, with sponsorship money still to come in.
01:39Charlotte Butterworth, who is Head of Fundraising at Ashgate Hospice, said,
01:43Every pound raise helps us continue providing specialist care and support to patients and people important to them when they need us most.
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