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Police closed Trent Road and Oaston Road, next to Nuneaton's Etone Community School and Technology College, after some of the tiles landed in the road.

Indigo Street will run from 10am until 4pm in Castle Street and Market Place every Sunday from this weekend up until Christmas A Sunday car boot, craft and food fair will be open for business in Hinckley town centre this weekend - just in time for Christmas.

Stamford writer Joe Wenke critiques and satirizes many of the tenets of the Catholic Church in his new book "Papal Bull."

The incident took place on January 24 at Natwest Bank on High Street, Lutterworth, when two men entered the bank wearing balaclavas and brandishing guns A prolific offender who joined a Broughton Astley man and two others to try and rob a bank in Lutterworth has has been jailed for 15 years.

A charity that helped to break up a paedophile ring has said it could be forced to close because of funding cuts.

But two Midlands backbenchers were to be pleasantly surprised during George Osborne's 50-minute update to Parliament on the state of the nation's finances.

A renowned race track which went bust after a lengthy legal battle with neighbours over noise is set to reopen.

Graphic Content Warning: Victim Paul Moody has told how he thought he would die when he was stabbed repeatedly with a hunting knife while he was on a night out in a city centre.

From left, George Walker, William Davis project manager, and Tom Kitchener, William Davis assistant quantity surveyor, checking progress on site at Airfield Business Park in Harborough.

Harborough MP Sir Edward Garnier says he will believe promises over Harborough's long-awaited new hospital only when he sees its ribbon cut.

Students at John Cleveland College were the debut audience for the hard-hitting Fatal4 Cause and Effect, which saw driver Michael York and Mandie Brown, the mum of Matthew, one of the victims, come face to face Teenagers at a Hinckley school sobbed as they heard from a convicted drink driver whose childhood pals died when he crashed after a 13 hour ... (more)

The British city of Leicester has won a 20-year campaign to have its own Indian visa centre, which will benefit a large Indian-origin community in the region.

The chart at the top of this post comes from the government's National Infrastructure Plan 2013 .

An evil brother and sister who let eight puppies starve to death in their family's kitchen have been banned from keeping animals for life.

Harbinder Khatkar, from Littleover in Derby, was found guilty earlier of committing the string of attacks in the Pear Tree and Normanton areas of the city in February.

A former teacher was alleged to have carried out the abuse, ranging from sexual touching to rape, in the 1960s and 1970s The Wales and British Lions coach clinched the top honour, as well as being named high-performance coach of the year at the UK Coaching Awards 2013 The application for PGI status was made to the European Commission by DEFRA on ... (more)

Burbage Custom Windows, Eurokey Recycling in Hinckley and Mycott Manufacturing in Hinckley were three of 13 businesses in the Leicestershire area to be awarded A 1,107,399 of grants Burbage Custom Windows, Eurokey Recycling in Hinckley and Mycott Manufacturing in Hinckley were three of 13 businesses in the Leicestershire area to be awarded A ... (more)

It is one of the biggest honours that can be bestowed on any citizen an entry in Who's Who, the 'Bible' of Britain's achievers and notable citizens.

Old Dominion senior Tim Hopkinson is 1 of 15 semifinalists for the MAC Hermann Award, collegiate soccer's highest individual award, presented annually by the Missouri Athletic Club.