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T20 cricket: Leicestershire Foxes boost hopes of quarter-final with win...
Leicestershire Foxes maintained their outside hopes of a place in the NatWest T20 Blast competition with a five-wicket win over Derbyshire Falcons at Chesterfield.The Foxes were set a target of 144 to...
View ArticleVideo of driver beating up another motorist in a road rage attack goes viral
A video of a driver beating up another motorist in a road rage attack has gone viral on the internet.The assault was filmed by people travelling in a car following the other drivers along Asquith Way,...
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T20 cricket: Ireland and Smith keep Leicestershire Foxes in hunt against...
Career-best figures of 5-22 from Anthony Ireland set up Leicestershire Foxes' five-wicket win over Derbyshire Falcons at Chesterfield yesterday.Ireland's performance kept the home side down to a modest...
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Live: traffic and travel updates from Leicester and Leicestershire
8.30am: Delays on M1 southbound between J20, A4303 (Lutterworth) and J16, A45 (Northampton West), because of an accident earlier on. Travel time is around 45 minutes.8.14am: Charles Street in Leicester...
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Speedway: Leicester Lions bare their teeth with a winning show against Belle Vue
Leicester Lions eased to their largest points haul of the season at the Jordan Road Surfacing Stadium on Saturday night with a comfortable 56-36 win against Belle Vue Aces.The Lions were back to full...
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Cricket: Leicestershire confident ahead of Kent test in LV County Championship
Leicestershire's batsmen will try to take the form they displayed against India into the LV County Championship when Kent arrive at Grace Road today.Angus Robson and Greg Smith both hit stunning...
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Arthur didn't have far to travel home - Leicester City historian John...
Leicester City's official historian John Hutchinson continues his series revisiting those sites in Leicester which were significant in the history of the club. Today, as we walk past these sites, we...
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Leicester City: Paul Gallagher signs loan deal at Preston for season
Paul Gallagher's Leicester City career appears to be over after he joined Preston on a season-long loan.The forward is entering the last year of a four-year contract with City but is unlikely to pull...
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Whitehall Growth Deal: Leicestershire's £80m will help transform...
Nearly £80 million of Government cash has been secured for projects to create jobs and improve roads and public transport in Leicestershire.The cash has come from a Whitehall Growth Deal announced...
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Nigerian trafficked into UK and treated like slave caught in Beaumont Leys...
A woman who was trafficked into the UK and treated like "a slave" managed to flee and live under a false name.Miriam Michael, a Nigerian, used a forged Portuguese identity card in the name of Anna...
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Firefighters tackle blaze at flat in Charles Street, Leicester
Firefighters have been tackling a flat fire in Charles Street, Leicester this morning.Crews were called to an incident in the city centre just after 3am.A second storey flat in Charles Street, on the...
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Now that's what we call a selfie! Space Centre mascot snapped 21 miles above...
Leicester's National Space Centre has marked its 13th anniversary by sending its mascot into orbit to get an out-of-this-world selfie. The miniature explorer, named 2.0 (two-point-oh), climbed to a...
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Leicestershire hit back on opening day against Kent
Leicestershire's batting fell apart at Grace Road as they were bowled out for 217 on the opening day of the LV County Championship match against Kent. But the County rallied splendidly after tea and by...
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Schoolboy badly beaten during attempted robbery in Rushey Mead
Three thugs punched and kicked a defenceless schoolboy in a failed attempt to steal his bag. The 14-year-old victim was treated in hospital for multiple injuries following the attack by two young men...
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Leicester City players have returned to pre-season in great shape, says Nigel...
Leicester City returned to pre-season training today and manager Nigel Pearson said his players were raring to go for their Premier League campaign.Everyone except goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, captain...
View ArticleMotorcyclist injured in crash on M1 near Leicester Forest East
A motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries after he was involved in a collision with a car on the M1. The injured man's yellow Yamaha V-Max bike collided with a blue VW Polo as the...
View ArticleSchools shut in Leicestershire for Thursday's strike action
Schools will shut and some council services grind to a halt on Thursday when strike action gets underway across the city and county. Union members from the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Unison,...
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Writers of Adrian Mole musical reveal they bonded with Sue Townsend over...
Two writers who have re-created The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and Three Quarters for Leicester's Curve have spoken of their lunches with author Sue Townsend, and how they bonded with the...
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Lying village postmistress jailed for claiming she had been robbed at gunpoint
A village postmistress who lied about being robbed at gunpoint, sparking a massive police hunt, has been jailed for 12 months. Margaret Player rang 999 and falsely claimed a masked raider with a...
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Leicester city centre flat gutted by fire was a 'cannabis factory'
Firefighters tackling a blaze in a flat in Leicester city centre discovered it was being used to grow cannabis. About 30 cannabis plants were found in the property, in Charles Street, close to the...
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