Leicestershire County, England News

Brazen Paul Buswell made a three minute call to the premium rate line while the owners were in the garden A RANDY postman rang a telephone sex chat line from a customer's house while in the middle of his morning rounds.

Fitness experts at Loughborough University have been researching ways of helping patients who have undergone obesity surgery to maintain the reduced weight.

The Masonic Samaritan Fund and Freemasons' Grand Charity have donated a combined sum of 33,000 to the DREAM research study, a randomised controlled trial currently being run in patients' homes across Leicestershire.

GP Beauty Spa and Salon is the latest business to take over premises in Midland Road, Swadlincote, at the former base of Kensington Spa.

Hannah Bishop , of Medbourne, Ashlea Knight of Kibworth and Abigail Taylor of Fleckney were selected at auditions from more than250 young hopefuls.

Edwalton: A drink-driver has been granted bail until his next court appearance after pleading guilty to driving while over the legal limit.

The Premier League new boys recorded a comfortable victory against their Northern Premier League counterparts, with the former England international on target twice Premier League newcomers Leicester City kicked off their pre-season campaign with a 6-1 win over Ilkeston on Tuesday.

The farm offers a rare opportunity to buy a good house with fine, uninterrupted views set in its own land within a ring fence.

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AN intrepid nine-year-old battled his way up the highest peak in England in an attempt to raise money for a local organisation.

AIR cadets from the 1211 Swadlincote Squadron have been crowned Midlands champions in the South and East Midlands Wing annual Wing Field Day competition - for the seventh time in 13 years.

AFTER two years in the making, a new exhibition will open this week at Swadlincote Town Hall to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War.

New look: Owners of the Queens Mansions holiday apartments in Bispham Mick Grewcock and Sheila Chick have invested i 1 280,000 in the property, including two six-foot seahorses modelled on ones which decorate Morecambe s iconic Midland Hotel.

Leicester City begin their preparations for life back in the big time with a low profile friendly against Northern Premier Division side Ilkeston Town on Tuesday.

Teams are being challenged to test their might and pull eight-ton trucks along a one-mile course for the second annual Welland Valley Charity Truck Pull event.

ALMOST 500 fewer people in North West Leicester are receiving jobseeker's allowance compared to this time last year.

FOLLOWING on from the previous Great War Tank Bank article in The Bugle Lee Dent, Ben Cunliffe and Richard Pursehouse of The Chase Project military research group report on when a different tank came to Wolverhampton in February 1918.

Pupils from Edith Weston primary, Brooke Hill Academy and English Martyrs CV Aademy taking part in cycle challenges at Edith Weston school field.

It was an eventful four years as Education Secretary for Michael Gove, a term in office that came to an end last week with Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet reshuffle.

The Local Boundaries Commission is thinking of incorporating Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford urban districts into a Greater Nottingham area, and there are fears that Hucknall could be MERGED with the city as well.