EVERY child attending a Langley Mill or Aldercar primary school is to receive a special commemorative Jubilee mug to celebrate the Queen’s 60th year on the throne.

THE SALVATION Army in Somercotes is holding a free Jubilee Tea on Saturday June 2 in the Corps Hall on Sleetmoor Lane from 3pm to 5pm.

A RIDDINGS bakery gave customers the perfect excuse to dive into a doughnut by taking part in National Doughnut Week and raising cash for charity.

CAN you help the fight-back against fake lotteries, get-rich-quick schemes and deceptive prize draw offers that drop through your door?

AN HISTORIC plaque and bell from a submarine were returned to the people of Alfreton in a special ceremony last week.

SCOUTS in Ilkeston will be rolling up their sleeves this week to help out their community this weekend.

A TOWN charity shop has launched a drive for donations to help it raise more cash.

MAKE sure you tell us what your team, be it football, cricket, darts or swimming - is up to.

IF you have taken photographs while out and about in the area then send them in.

THE TOTAL in our Jubilee Jam Jars Appeal stands at an impressive £200 this week.

As the outgoing Mayor of Eastwood handed his chains over this week, he called for the council to ’disband’ and refused to attend another meeting until councillors ‘sorted themselves out’.

STAFF and governors at an Alfreton junior school are up in arms after they were told the school must become an academy to tackle ‘unacceptably low’ results.

Two people have been arrested following two fires in Somercotes.

DID you guess last week’s Mystery Picture?

TO CELEBRATE the tenth anniversary of Alfreton Party in the Park the committee are trying to contact and reunite the past ten Party Queens to take part in this year’s proccesion.

A PUBLIC inquiry to decide whether 98 homes will be built between Waingoves and Codnor finished on Friday.

THE SALVATION Army held a plant fair in Somercotes on Saturday to raise funds for security improvements to their hall following a spate of break-ins.

A TEENAGER has been given a suspended sentence after a ‘disgraceful’ attack on a Kirk Hallam man, which left him needing 70 stitches in his face.

MORE than 600 people took advantage of Saturday’s sunshine and visited new and classic motorbikes on show at Erewash Museum.

SOCIAL housing provider Three Valleys has set aside £20,000 to support community projects.