Leicestershire County, England News

Hinckley Methodist Church will be open to all from noon until 2pm on Tuesdays March 11, 18 and 25, and on April 1, when members will be offering soup and a slice of cake for just A 2 The red-brick church on Albert Road will be open to all from noon until 2pm on Tuesdays March 11, 18 and 25, and on April 1, when members will be offering soup and a ... (more)

The fight is on to save a medical walk-in centre which sees more than 30,000 patients a year.

Pilates Courses in Leicester near you. We have classes all around Leicester and Market Harborough.

Silvan Floors, of Thurlaston, near Enderby, is supplying exclusive hotel and residential developments in London, Europe and the Middle East.

Ian Mattioli, above, is chief executive of investment management and pensions group Mattioli Woods, of Grove Park, Enderby, which is sponsoring the New Business of the Year category.

EMERGENCY funding set aside by councils to help struggling families should not be used to support people who have had their benefits capped, the Taxpayers Alliance has said.

AS many towns continue to struggle due to the economic downturn, Swadlincote is bucking the trend.

A charity which supports seriously ill people in Rutland is hosting an event to make people aware of how to use vital lifesaving equipment.

Richard Stephen Minion, 30, formerly of Baghdad Road, Cranwell, but now living in Riseborough Walk, Bulwell, Nottingham, admitted assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty on February 12. Prosecuting, Tracey Ross told Grantham magistrates that at 4.15am Minion was being booked into the custody suite at the police station where officers ... (more)

A woman involved in a crash in which two toddlers died has been cleared of causing their deaths through careless driving.

East Midlands Airport plans to grow to serve 10 million people and handle 1.2m tonnes of cargo by 2030.

Fire crews from Rugby and Lutterworth attended the incident on the southbound carriageway on the M6 near junction one for Rugby.

A regular pupil during the day, Darcey takes to her top-spec professional decks at home after doing her homework in the evenings The 11-year-old St Margaret's schoolgirl from Stoke Golding, who hit the headlines as the youngest performer at last year's Hinckley Music Festival, has been invited to make a return visit to that event and has also been ... (more)

The proposals were recommended for refusal because the site would be built on designated green wedge land and the application did not have the support of the Highways Agency An application to build a travellers' site in Hinckley was turned down by councillors at this week's planning meeting.

The funnyman uploaded a video message on YouTube.com as part of his The Trews series, telling fans his mom Barbara has been diagnosed with the disease.

UNGRACIOUS: You don't have to dig very deep to find the irony when it comes to Jake Bugg 's guest appearance on last week's American Idol results show.

An author from the Harborough district is enjoying great success with her titles now being published as e-books, paperbacks and in large library print.

Contractor Jack Moodys Limited will move on to Eureka Park in Swadlincote as part of a bid to revamp the area thanks to a 500,000 grant awarded to South Derbyshire District Council from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund through their Parks for People programme.

SEVERN Trent has admitted that work it is carrying out to lay pipes beneath two streets in Normanton "may be causing inconvenience".

Robert Walker, 34, of Stocken Prison, Stretton, admitted causing A 737.56 of damage to a cell on March 31, 2013, and A 5,350.90 of damage to furniture within a cell on April 13, 2013.