Actor Martin Clunes offers £2000 reward to find stolen dog Pippin
Actor Martin Clunes has offered a £2000 reward to try to find a stolen dog from Leicestershire. The 54-year-old star of TV show Doc Martin has made the generous gesture after Pippin was stolen in...
View ArticleMan taken to hospital after being assaulted in Oxford Street,...
A man was taken to hospital after being assaulted in the street in Loughborough.The man was injured after an incident in Oxford Street on Friday afternoon. Police sealed off the street while a forensic...
View ArticlePolice officer and ex-hunt member leaves wildlife crime post after...
A police officer has stepped down from her role investigating wildlife crime after activists highlighted her links with a Leicestershire hunt. Pc Sharon Roscoe resigned from the voluntary and...
View ArticleAnastasia James trial: Jury retires to consider M1 crash verdict
The jury in the trial of a woman, accused of causing the deaths of her daughter and another girl in a motorway crash, has retired to consider the verdicts. Anastasia James (37), a private...
View ArticleMan stabbed in the back near town centre
A man is being treated in hospital after he was stabbed in the back in Loughborough. The 34-year-old was injured in Oxford Street, near the town centre at 3.30pm on Friday. A 23-year-old man has been...
View ArticleCases at Leicester Magistrates' Court
Cases heard before Leicester Magistrates' Court include:Regis Shambare (21), of Linney Road, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, pleaded guilty to using a vehicle without third-party insurance in Tilling Road...
View ArticleMan attacked in street after objecting to wolf whistles directed at girlfriend
A man was attacked in the street when he objected to wolf whistles directed at his girlfriend. At Leicester Crown Court, Christopher Cunningham-Pithouse, 21, admitted causing actual bodily harm to the...
View ArticleFosse Road crash: Police name two passengers who died at scene
Police have named two passengers who were killed when the car they were travelling in crashed while being followed by police. David Paul Anger, 24, and 37-year-old Christopher Mark Needham, both of...
View ArticleCrooked lawyer ordered to pay £1.2 million after fraud conviction
A crooked solicitor who was convicted of running a complex property fraud has been ordered to cough up £1.2 million. Shameer Farouk Sacranie, who fled overseas before his original trial 18 months ago...
View ArticlePolice arrest 10 suspects in drug and money laundering raids
Police have arrested 10 people in a series of drugs raids across Leicester and the wider Midlands this morning. Nine men and a woman were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and...
View ArticleTeenager hid handguns, sawn-off shotgun and ammunition in his back garden
Police found two handguns and a sawn-off shotgun, with ammunition, hidden in the back garden of a teenager's home, a court heard. Jordan Ashley Harris (18), who was sentenced to three years detention,...
View ArticleCases at Leicester Magistrates' Court
Cases heard before Leicester Magistrates' Court include:Karen Elizabeth Bloxham (36), of Barnsdale Road, Anstey Heights, pleaded guilty to stealing a wallet, value unknown, on February 3 in Raymond...
View ArticleSteve McKinnon murder trial: Jury set to consider verdict
The jury in the trial of four men accused of beating to death a father-of-five outside a Leicester pub is due to retire today to consider its verdict after hearing four weeks' of evidence. Steve...
View ArticleDrug dealing brothers caught with £74k stash in Newtown Linford home
Two drug dealing brothers were caught with a haul worth more than £74,000 when the police searched their home.Officers seized two kilos of MCat, with a street value of £50,000, and two kilos of...
View ArticleWarring travellers in violent attack on petrol station forecourt
A dispute between two traveller families led to violence erupting on a petrol station forecourt. John Goodwin (40) and his son John Varey (18) armed themselves with baseball bats and attacked Danny...
View ArticleMan, 70, jailed for four years for growing cannabis plants
A 70-year-old man has been jailed for four years after he was caught growing cannabis plants. Frank Haines, of Melton, was arrested in November last year when police discovered the 70 plants in a...
View ArticleAstonishing moment 'idiotic' driver uses pavement to bypass traffic queue...
This is the moment a driver decided waiting in a short line of traffic was not for them – and drove along the pavement instead. Footage of the incident, captured on cameras in another car, shows the...
View ArticleCan you help find missing man Rodney Greenhill?
Police have issued a photograph of a man who went missing from his home in Leicester more than a week ago. Rodney Greenhill, 53, has not been seen since 1pm on Wednesday, March 16, when he left his...
View Article'Elton John will drive us from our homes' claim residents worried about...
Saturday night is definitely not alright for fighting according to people objecting to Sir Elton John's upcoming concert in Leicester. The pop legend is set to perform at Leicestershire County Cricket...
View ArticleNew appeal as search for missing Josh Cotton hits two weeks (video)
Police have made a new video appeal for help finding a man who went missing two weeks ago today. Josh Cotton, 22, was last seen on Friday, March 11 near to his narrowboat at Sawley Marina, near Castle...
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