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County Hall is looking to save hundreds of thousands of pounds by cutting the opening hours of its rubbish tips and recycling centres.
Plans for wind farm near Rugby on show
A series of public exhibitions to allow people to find out more about plans for a new wind farm outside Rugby will be held later this month.
Leicester Mercury commented Bulky spaniel Benji's signed up to slimming competition
Unbeknownst to his owner Carol Hood, the eight-year-old King Charles spaniel, was polishing off leftovers when her back was turned.
Hundreds of plants and gardening equipment for sale at auction
A plethora of plants, planters and gardening accessories are set to go under the hammer due to a long-running plant centre's upcoming closure.
ASDA's AutoStore Opens For Business
Designed, developed and delivered by Swisslog, a global provider of integrated logistics solutions, the automated goods-to-man materials handling solution was declared open by ASDA Retail Director, Mark Ibbotson together with ASDA Logistics Services Director, Ian Stansfield, Swisslog SVP Andrew Manship and Swisslog UK MD James Sharples.
Fatal crash: Judge's seatbelt warning
A judge has warned "lessons must be learnt" from the death of a teenager who was not wearing a seatbelt when the car he was in crashed.
Two injured as car crashes into house
The road, which is the A4304 between Market Harborough and Lutterworth, was closed for 35 minutes while the debris was removed.
Cancer survivor fronts drive to boost register
A police inspector from Lutterworth whose life was saved by a bone marrow transplant is fronting a campaign to encourage people to sign up to the donor register.
Air ambulance flies to aid of young horse rider and motorcyclist in Leicestershire
The air ambulance flew a nine year old horse rider an a motorcyclist to hospital in separate incidents in Leicestershire at the weekend.
8.50am: Area Traffic Control are reporting that traffic on the southbound M1 is starting to flow more freely after a breakdown between Lutterworth at J20 and Catthorpe at J19.
Video: Whittle weekend was so wonderful
A special exhibition exploring the work of Sir Frank Whittle showed there is still plenty of interest in the aviationpioneer more than 70 years after his jet engine first flew.
Leamington man dies after being hit by lorry
Brian Whitlock, 56, died at the scene of the incident, which occured between junctions 21 and 20 of the M1, near Lutterworth at 2pm last Tuesday.