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Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough has missed out on the League One Manager of the Month award for January. 

It's gone instead to Barnsley's Lee Johnson.

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Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby political reporter

Derby City Council says city authorities have done disproportionately badly out of the government's funding decisions. 

Like Nottingham, the majority of homes are in Band A for council tax. That means the council tax doesn't bring in as much money as it might do if the city's homes were bigger. 

Also, many people who work in Derby live just outside the city's official border and that means their council tax goes elsewhere.

Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby political reporter

Derby's cutting £23m from its budget this year. 

In comparison, Nottingham's cutting £21m, Stoke's cutting £27m and Leicester's trying to save a whopping £45m.

Yet despite being at the lower end of things, Derby's budget is at the more dramatic end of the scale, in terms of services being cut. 

That's partly because Derby's smaller than the other councils, so £23m in Derby is a bigger slice of the pie than £23m would be to Nottingham.

Burton Mail

The parents of a schoolgirl who fell from a footbridge and died have claimed a single phone call from her school could have played a part, external in saving her life.

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

• A Derbyshire MP has criticised the city council for not preparing for budget cuts
• Shops in Derbyshire have been selling Manuka honey with misleading labels
• Burton Albion's Nigel Clough has missed out on  the manager of the month award for January  

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Pauline Latham told BBC Radio Derby: "Derby City Council haven't actually prepared for these cuts that they should have known were coming along stream and what they should have been doing is over the last few years looking at how they could maximise the income to the council.

"They're absolutely making Derby city a place that nobody will want to live in, nobody will want to come and work here because they're losing what everybody loves about Derby and that is appalling."

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

To start with this morning, it's not been a great week for public services in Derby.

We've heard that Moorways Pool, the Darley Park concert, Christmas lights, public toilets and several charities are going or having their funding completely cut.

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Pauline Latham, Conservative MP for Mid Derbyshire, blames the Labour-led city council, saying it wouldn't have had to take this drastic action if it had done more to increase its income.

Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter

A dull and overcast start to a largely cloudy day. Little in the way of brightness with strengthening winds this afternoon and occasional drizzle. Highs of 10C (50F). 

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

Good morning Derbyshire and East Staffordshire, I'll be looking after the updates on your Local Live page today.

I'll have all the latest local news and I'll let you know what's going on in the world of sport.

We'll also find out about the weather from Charlie Slater and I'll let you know about any delays on the roads.

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