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Annual Canvass Open or Close
Each year every household in the North East Derbyshire District will receive a Household Enquiry form, which is also known as the annual canvass. The information we gather from this enables us to produce the new electoral register and ensures that everyone who should be entitled to vote can do so.
If you are not included on the electoral roll you will not be able to vote so it is important that you provide us with up to date information on the occupants of your address. You can't vote until you reach the age of 18 but any 16 or 17 year olds in your household should be included on the form. You should not include any children under the age of 16.
All of the major credit reference agencies use the electoral roll to verify your details when you apply for a mortgage, loan or other credit agreement. If you are not on the electoral roll you are likely to have problems in obtaining any form of credit.
We will be sending Household Enquiry Forms towards the end of July 2018 to every household in the district. When you receive your Household Enquiry Form, please check this carefully to ensure it is correct and advise us of any changes that need to be made. The form will include details of how you can do this. Please respond without delay as this will mean we need to send out fewer reminders and helps us to keep costs down. Reminder forms will be sent at the beginning of September 2018 to households where no response has been received.
The revised Register of Electors will be published on 1 December 2018.
By-elections Open or Close
Results and notices in respect of local by elections in North East Derbyshire District are highlighted below:
- Notice of vacancy
As no valid request to call an election was received within the 14 day period, the Town Council have been informed that they can proceed to co-opt to the vacancy. For further information on the co-option process please contact the Dronfield Town Clerk.
- Notice of vacancy
As no request to call an election has been received within the fourteen day period, the Parish Council have been advised that they can co-opt to the vacancy. Please contact the Parish Clerk for further information.
Killamarsh Parish
Grassmoor District Ward
- Notice of vacancy
- North Ward of the Parish of Eckington - Notice of Election
- Statement of Persons Nominated - Eckington North Ward
Shirland and Higham
County Election Open or Close
The next elections to take place in North East Derbyshire are the Derbyshire County Council Elections which will take place on Thursday 4 May 2017.
In North East Derbyshire area, there are 7 electoral divisions represented by 8 Councillors:
Clay Cross North – 1 seat
Clay Cross South – 1 seat
Dronfield East – 1 seat
Dronfield West and Walton – 1 seat
Eckington and Killamarsh – 2 seats
Sutton – 1 seat
Wingerworth and Shirland – 1 seat
Neighbourhood Planning Referendum Open or Close
Holymoorside and Walton
Neighbourhood Planning Referendum - Information statement and more information can be found on the Neighbourhood Planning pages.
Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations
Parliamentary Election Open or Close
North East Derbyshire residents who are already registered to vote willl automatically be sent poll cards to vote in the General Election.
You only need to register if you have moved house or have not previously registered to vote at the address where you live, and the quickest and easiest way to do this is to go online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote, where you will need to provide certain details, which will include your date of birth and National Insurance Number.
Publication of Verification Figure Open or Close
Please find the publication of verification figure attached here.
Review of Polling Districts and Polling Places Open or Close
The Council is carrying out a review of its polling districts and polling places as a consequence of the District Council's electoral arrangements being reviewed by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
The Boundary Commission has made a number of changes to the electoral wards and their final recommendations can be view on the Commission's website www.lgbce.org.uk
As part of the review, a consultation period will run from Friday 9 March 2018 until Friday 20 April 2018.
The purpose of the review is to:
- seek to ensure that all electors should continue to have such reasonable and convenient facilities for voting as are practicable in the circumstances;
- seek to ensure that so far as is reasonable and practicable, the polling places designated are accessible to all electors, including those who are disabled.
During this period the Council is inviting representations relating to existing polling districts and the suitability of the existing polling places or any proposed polling districts or polling places referred to in the preliminary ARO draft proposals.
Representations would be welcome from electors and elected representatives or parties, parish councils, and individuals or groups with expertise in access for persons with any type of disability. Any person making a representation should, if possible, give alternative places that may be used as polling places. The submission form below may be used for this purpose.
A preliminary review of the effect of the boundary changes on existing polling districts and polling places has been undertaken by the ARO and a copy of the draft ARO proposals together associated maps showing the existing ward boundaries and proposed polling districts and places will be published on the website shortly.
Polling districts are the areas into which district electoral wards are sub divided and polling places are the locations of buildings in which polling stations are established. Polling districts can be created as an electoral requirement but also as a means to provide a more conveniently located polling station for the electorate.
Following the consultation period the review proposals will be considered at a full Council meeting the agenda for which will be published on the Council's website and notice of the outcome of the review will be published within 14 days of the Council meeting.
The proposals will be incorporated in the new register of electors to be published on 1 December 2018.
Standing as a Candidate Open or Close
Prior to any election, prospective candidates must meet certain criteria before they are allowed to stand as a candidate.
Local election candidates
To qualify as a candidate for local elections you must:
Be a British or Commonwealth citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland or a citizen of the European Union.
Be 18 years of age or more on the date of nomination
Not be disqualified from holding office
Candidates also have to meet one or more of the following criteria:
They must be included on the electoral register and be a local government elector for the area on the date of nominations and thereafter.
They must have occupied, as owner or tenant, any land or other premises in the area during the twelve months prior to nominations.
Their principal or only place of work must have been in the area for the previous twelve months.
They must have resided in the area for the whole of the previous twelve months.
For parish elections, they must have resided in the area, or within three miles of the area for the whole of the previous twelve months.
A candidate for all local elections must complete a nomination paper in order to stand for election. The nomination paper has to be signed by the requisite number of electors who live within the electoral ward, parish or division and must be returned by the statutory deadline together with the candidate's consent to nomination.
Although most candidates are nominated through a political party, individuals can stand for election in their own right. Candidates must submit a return of expenses detailing expenditure on items such as advertising, transport and attending public meetings.
To qualify as a candidate for UK Parliamentary elections you must:
Be a British or Commonwealth citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.
Be 18 years of age or more on the date of nomination
Not be disqualified from holding office
A candidate for a UK Parliamentary election must complete a nomination paper in order to stand for election. The nomination paper has to be signed by ten electors of the constituency.
Candidates also have to submit a deposit of £500 which will be refunded only if the candidate receives more than 5% of the total votes cast in the election.
Voting Open or Close
In order to vote in UK elections and referendums, you need to apply to have your name included on the electoral register. This is known as registering to vote. It is a legal requirement to supply the required information. You can register to vote online by clicking on the 'do it online' button on this page and clicking the register to vote icon.
If you are not registered you will not be able to vote at any election. You are not automatically registered even if you pay Council Tax. You can register to vote if you are 16 years old or over, and a British, Irish, Commonwealth or European Union citizen. If you are 16 or 17, you can register now but you are not allowed to vote until you are 18. The simplest way to register is by going online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. It only takes a few minutes to register but you will need to have your National Insurance number to hand as you won't be able to complete your application without it.
Postal Vote
Anyone included in the Register of Electors may apply for a postal vote (16kb). If you know that you will not be able to vote in person, you should apply for a postal vote as soon as an election is announced or as soon as you become aware that you will be out of the country on polling day. Postal votes can be sent to an address outside the UK - for example if you are going on holiday - but please remember that it will take time to get there and for you to return it in time for the vote to be counted.
Postal ballot papers are normally sent out a week or two before polling day (depending on when you send in your postal voting application), so if you will not be at home around that time you should consider appointing a proxy to vote on your behalf.
Proxy Vote
You may still be able to vote even if you are unable to get to your polling station on election day by applying for a proxy vote (17kb). (A proxy is someone who votes on your behalf). For example:
If you will be away on holiday (in the UK or abroad)
If your work takes you away from home
If you are ill or in hospital
If you want to appoint a proxy to vote for you, he or she must be:
Willing to vote on your behalf
A registered elector
A British citizen or citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, or for local government and European Parliamentary elections, a citizen of the European Union
Old enough to vote and legally allowed to vote.
Armed Forces Personnel
If you are a member of the Armed Forces and are registered as an elector, you will be entitled to vote in Parliamentary, Local and European Elections in the UK.
Service personnel and their spouses resident in the UK may register in either of two ways. They may be included as an ordinary elector by completing an individual registration application, or they may register as service voters.
In order to register as a service voter you will need to complete a service declaration every 5 years, which will be the best option if you are likely to be posted overseas. If you are likely to be posted overseas, it is advisable to apply to vote by post or by proxy.
Overseas Voters
If you are a British National living overseas you are entitled to vote in UK General Elections and European Parliamentary Elections for up to 15 years after you were last registered in the UK. Overseas electors cannot vote at local government elections. If you are in the armed forces or or crown personnel this does not apply to you. Overseas electors can register online here.
In order to register as an overseas voter you will need to contact the electoral registration office at the local council covering the address for where you were last registered within the UK. If the last UK address you were registered at was in North East Derbyshire District you can register with us or contact us at Electoral Services, North East Derbyshire District Council, District Council Offices, 2013, Mill Lane, Wingerworth. S42 6NG.
If you have never been registered as an elector in the UK, you will not be eligible to register as an overseas voter. However, if you left the UK before you were 18 years of age you can register at your parents or guardians' address, provided that they were registered and that you left the UK no more than 15 years ago.
Overseas electors should also apply to vote by post or proxy. Postal votes are sent out approximately one to two weeks before polling day (depending on when you made your application), so if you are not likely to be able to receive and return a postal vote in that time, you should consider appointing a proxy.
Students who are away at university or college can remain registered at their family home and may also register at their student accommodation. It is however an offence to vote twice in the same election. Students may also wish to consider the option of a postal vote.
Electoral Register
The Electoral Register contains the names and addresses of all those who have registered to vote within the North East Derbyshire District.
Every August/September, a Household Enquiry Form is sent to each household in the district requesting the names of those residing in the house who are eligible to vote. Information on how to complete the Household Enquiry Form is included on the form.
Reminders are issued to households who have not responded and the revised Electoral Register is usually published on 1st December each year.
Two versions are prepared:
The Full Register lists everybody who is eligible to vote, a copy is available at our District Council Offices, 2013 Mill Lane, Wingerworth, S42 6NG for public inspection in accordance with legal requirements. Inspection of the register is strictly under supervision and only written notes can be taken. You will not be permitted to photocopy or take images of any part of the register. It is not permissible for an electronic search to be carried out.
The open version leaves out names and addresses of people who have made a request to be excluded from this version of the register. The open version can be bought by anyone for any purpose.
If you move house after the register is published on 1st December, you can apply to be registered in respect of your new address under the Rolling Registration procedures which takes approximately four to six weeks to take effect. You can register online at your new address at www.gov.uk/registertovote or alternatively contact us for a printed form. Once an election has been called and you find out that you are not currently registered you can apply to register up to 12 days before the election.
Many of the major credit firms check your address against the electoral register and you may be refused a loan, mobile phone agreement, mortgage, bank account, etc, if you are not registered. It is also your chance to have your say about how your local council or the government is run.


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I have been meaning to do this ride for probably two years and finally got round to it today. The Linville to Blackbutt Rail Trail is part of the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail that will follow the old railway line for about 148 km between West Ipswich and Blackbutt. At the moment only some sections of the trail have been opened and the section I rode today was 22.6 km between Linville and Blackbutt.
I had decided on a loop ride which is very similar to the Google map above except that I didn't head south of Blackbutt and link up to Rohlmanns Rd via the Benarkin Forest trails. Instead I rode the rail trail from Linville to Blackbutt then returned via the rail trail until just after the D'Aguilar overpass where I rode to the top the range via the Tarong water pipeline track then linked up to Rohlmanns Rd which I followed down into Linville. This made for a more interesting loop ride.
The rail trail climbs gently out of Linville to Benarkin before the slight downhill run for the final few kilometers into Blackbutt. The scenery for the first 8-10kms out of Linville was fantastic with rolling green hills and views of the Blackbutt Range. From their, the bush closes in around the trail and the view diminishes to pretty much the trail in front of you and the bush either side. About 7kms out of Linville I had to stop at one of the railway cuttings to allow a herd of cattle to be mustered through the cutting by horseman. Unfortunately, the herd spooked and some headed for the gully while others climbed the route over the side of the cutting and down the embankment where I was standing supposedly out of there way, Luckily, they spooked at the last moment and just avoided trampling me as I nowhere to move. The dogs herding the cattle did a brilliant job of quickly rounding them up out of the gully and getting them back on the trail.
After a pancake and ice cream lunch in Blackbutt and being informed that I must have a permit to ride the rail trail I returned back along the trail until just after it passes under the D'Aguilar highway. From there I turned right up a a hike a bike section to the Tarong water pipeline maintenance track and the top of the D'Aguilar Range. My plan was to link up with the optimistically named Rohlmanns Road which would eventually lead me down into a valley and back into the Linville. I only had a Google satellite map for directions and landmarks which made it difficult because some of the tracks I was riding were unmarked. After following the Tarong track I came to a place that was obviously the top of the range and the point where I should start descending however, the direction I wanted was blocked by gates only evidence of a track was a cow path across a paddock. Nearby (in the middle of nowhere) some workmen were working on part of the water pipeline so I asked them for directions. They didn't know Rohlmanns Rd but said there was a very rough track that descended through private property down into the valley but they were unsure if it went to Linville.
After getting over the shock that someone had biked up to the top of the range and wanted to follow the rough trck down the valley they suggested I try it and just speak to any of the property owners I saw about access. So with that I headed across the path at the top of the range surrounded by acres of green fields and 360 degree views of the surrounding ranges. The cow path eventually turned into two wheel tracks and it was at that point I came across some farmers coming out of a muster yard. They indicated that I was not on private property as long as I stayed on the track which would eventually become Rohlmanns Rd as it winds its way down the valley into Linville.
This part of the ride was by far the best ride I have ever done. Following a ridge line down from the top of the D'Aguilar Range you follow a cow path that becomes two wheel tracks in the grass. Eventually the wheel tracks turn into a very rough and steep down hill four wheel drive track and really requires you to get your backside behind the bike seat and down on the rear wheel. As you descend the ridge line the track becomes less steep and the landcsape turns from the rolling green hills at the top of the range with its view to the surrounding Brisbane Valley Ranges to the flatter cattle grazing lands at the base of the range. Finally the track turns into a dirt road that follows the valley floor and deposits you just outside of Linville.
So that was it, about a seven hour ride but a lot of that was spent out of the saddle enjoying the views and having lunch in Blackbutt. It was a two hour trip back to Brisbane and I found myself nearly dropping of too sleep as I drove. I decided for the sake of safety stop at Lake Wivenhoe for a half hour rest. The water level at Wivenhow was considerably higher than when I was last out this way in 2005/2006.


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�Rome�s answer to the Protestant Reformation was twofold, though actually conflicting and contradictory. "Through the Jesuits Ribera, of Salamanca, Spain, and Bellarmine, of Rome, the Papacy put forth her futurist interpretation. Almost simultaneously Alcazar, Spanish Jesuit of Seville, advanced the conflicting preterist interpretation.� (1)
Both of these interpretations were intended to counter the historical interpretation of the Reformers. Although they were actually opposite and conflicting, they were both designed to take the attention away from applying prophecy to the papacy and placing the fulfilment of prophecy either in the past (preterism), stopping short of Papal Rome�s career, or in the distant future (futurism) so that it leaps over papal dominance and squeezes Antichrist into a short period of time, just before the consummation of the ages � therefore often called the �gap theory�.
The Reformers� interpretation of the vision of Babylon and the Beast of Revelation 17 rested clearly on the Roman Church � �the apostate woman, the Roman Church; the city � seven-hilled Rome; the many waters, the many peoples; the Beast, the fourth, or Roman beast of Daniel 7:7; the sixth head, the Caesars and the seventh, the popes�. (2)
�Roman Catholics as well as Protestants agree as to the origin of these interpretations. The Roman Catholic writer G.S. Hitchcock says:
� �The Futurist School, founded by the Jesuit Ribera in 1591, looks for Antichrist, Babylon, and a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, at the end of the Christian dispensation.
� �The Praeterist School, founded by the Jesuit Alcasar in 1614, explains the Revelation by the Fall of Jerusalem, or by the fall of Pagan Rome in 410 A.D.� (G.S. Hitchcock, The Beasts and the Little Horn, p. 7.)� (3)
Francisco Ribera (1537-1591)
�About 1590 Ribera published a 500-page commentary on the Apocalypse, denying the Protestant application of Antichrist to the Church of Rome. Ribera�s death at fifty-four halted the preparation of further commentaries. Those that were printed passed through several revised editions�at Salamanca about 1590, Lyons and Antwerp in 1593, Douay in 1612, and Antwerp in 1603 and 1623.
�Since its inception his basic thesis has been virtually unchanged. He assigned the first few chapters of the Apocalypse to ancient Rome, in John�s own time; the rest he restricted to a literal three and a half year�s reign of an infidel Antichrist, who would bitterly oppose and blaspheme the saints just before the second advent. He taught that antichrist would be a single individual, who would rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, abolish Christian religion, deny Christ, be received by the Jews, pretend to be God, and conquer the world�all in this brief space of three and one half years!
� Places Antichrist�s coming at the close of the seals
� Places trumpets under the seventh seal
� Death of the witness in literal time
� Antichrist's persecutions last three and one half years
� Judgements upon Rome for ultimate apostasy�in Revelation 17 Ribera admits the woman to be not only pagan Rome but also Rome Christian after a future falling away from the pope. (Francisco Ribera, Sacram Beati Ioannis � Apocalypsin Commentarij, chap. 14, pp. 282, 283).
� Repudiates Augustinian earthly millennium
� Antichrist�s reign counted by literal days
� Babylon is Rome past and future, not present� (4)
Alcazar�s preterist interpretation fell into disrepute and is not therefore relevant for this discussion.
What is the relevance of this information for the Church today?
1. The motive for Ribera's interpretation of prophecy was not to
interpret Scripture accurately but to take the attention away from the Reformers' identification of the Papacy and the Roman Catholic system as the Antichrist and the Scarlet Women of Revelation 17 and place it on some fictional character far in the future.
2. The Reformers suffered and paid a high price for believing and propagating the truth of salvation by grace through faith alone and for making the Scriptures available to the man in the street.
3. The Roman Catholic Church spilt the blood of millions of Protestant Christian martyrs during the Inquisition - in the name of the Church!
4. The Protestant Church has now joined hands with the Roman Catholic system in propagating the same lies Rome used to turn the attention of the Christian world away from their apostasy, lies and wickedness with which they control the consciences of millions of devotees.
5. In the name of unity � the large part of the Church of the Lord Jesus has climbed into bed with the great prostitute of Revelation 17:3-6. This what Jesus has warned: �Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.� Revelation 18:4,5.
(Quotes 1-4 taken from the website http://gospel-herald.com/futurism_history.htm, (captured 01/10/2102), (LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic faith of Our Fathers, The Historical Development of Prophetic Interpretation, Vol. 2, Review and Herald, Washington, D.C., 1948, excerpted, pp. 464-532.)
(Please refer to the articles, "Who is the Antichrist?" and �Who is the Man Doomed to Destruction?� for a brief examination of this interpretation).
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The downfall of Enron of Houston evidently has not caused some retirement plan participants to be wary of how much they have invested in their company's stock, according to a recent survey by Boston Research Group of Hopkinton, Mass.
The survey, conducted in mid-April among 100 401(k) plan participants who invested in company stock prior to October, found that only one in eight participants have reduced company stock holdings since the Enron disaster. Only one in four said they felt less comfortable about their company stock holdings.
The average 401(k) participant had 30% of his or her assets invested in company stock, according to Boston Research Group. In addition, one-third said more than 50% of their assets were held in company stock.
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Another interesting aspect of the survey is how participants viewed the relative risk of their own company stock. Half of the participants said company stock was either as risky or less risky than a money market fund, while one-third said the stock was as risky or less risky than government bonds.
"We've seen this constantly. Participants do not have a clear understanding of the nature of investment risk," said Warren Cormier, president of Boston Research Group.
Poor education programs may be one reason why employees do not seem to be worried about their 401(k) asset holdings.
"There are a lot of communication programs that are [offered] by corporations," said Mike Scarborough, CEO of The Scarborough Group, an investment advisory firm for defined contribution savings plan participants based in Annapolis, Md. However, they are not truly helpful, Scarborough said. "They are not true education programs because to educate people [about diversification] is not going to happen in an hour or two."
However, corporations are not the only ones to blame, he continued. Many investors are uninterested in or intimidated by the idea of taking care of their retirement finances - even those who do have access to advice.
"The corporations, in some respects, are simply speaking to a brick wall, and while there may be some education for employees, this is not their bag of tricks," Scarborough said.
"There is the vast majority who do not want to be educated, do not find this to be enjoyable, do not have the time, do not have the proclivity and would prefer that we acquiesce this responsibility to someone else."
Scarborough said many people, unfortunately, will just sit back and wait for the next Enron to happen. "Many people look at Enron and say, Well that couldn't be my company,'" he said.
Adds Cormier: "I'm not sure there is a solution. Once the investment decision [was put] on a self-directed basis, the 401(k) world set themselves up for this type of outcome, by trying to educate millions of Americans, and not only educate, but get them to alter their behavior and that's an extraordinary process to do."


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