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The day the sky turned black over Leicester - your pictures
The day the sky turned black in Leicester had the Mercury readers snapping away to capture the moment.We asked if any of you had caught the image of the dark cloud that rolled over the city centre like...
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Landmark buildings re-opening in Leicester city centre
Two landmark city buildings have been given new leases of life.The curved Victorian building on the corner of Welford Place and Pocklington's Walk is being turned into a pizza restaurant.And former...
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Live: Traffic and travel updates for Leicester and Leicestershire
1.20pm: No major incidents or congestion to report on city and county roads.For more local and national travel information and weather updates see the links below:MOTORWAY UPDATES: For traffic updates...
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Campaign asks Leicestershire businesses to be on look out for youngsters at...
Taxi drivers, pub managers and hotel owners are being encouraged to keep an eye out for paedophiles abusing children.The campaign targets people working in certain jobs who are likely to spot children...
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Loughborough International Supermarket shopkeeper jailed for stocking...
A shopkeeper has been jailed for selling illegal tobacco.Sardar Khedir Harris (36) who used to run the International Supermarket in Sparrow Hill, Loughborough, has been sentenced to eight weeks in...
View ArticleLoughborough University's centre for sport and exercise medicine given...
A specialist sport and exercise medicine centre at a university is to become an Olympic research centre.The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine based at Loughborough University has been...
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Tragic mum's three children will visit Disneyland Paris after "generous"...
Three young children who lost their mum in a car crash two months before Christmas are going to Disneyland Paris next year - thanks to the generosity of fund raisers.Michelle Davies was killed when her...
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Breastfeeding: Baby always comes first
Alison Martin is deputy news editor at the Leicester Mercury and a mother of one. Here she talks about her views on breastfeeding: I didn't really want to breastfeed my baby while in the grounds of a...
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Dorrell defiant as 175,000 sign petition calling for Cameron to sack him over...
More than 175,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Prime Minister to sack Conservative Charnwood MP Stephen Dorrell.Mr Dorrell has recently started working for accountancy firm KPMG and has...
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Fire crews tackle blaze at empty house in Oadby
Firefighters tackled a blaze at an empty house in Oadby this morning.Crews were called to Regent Street, just after 6.30am.A fire has started on the ground floor of a two-storey terrace house.A total...
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Family of murdered Iraq war veteran 'relieved' after killer's appeal is rejected
The family of a murdered man say they are relieved one of his killers has been refused the chance to appeal his conviction.Paul Fyfe, an Iraq war veteran who later became a Leicestershire police...
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Man who had sex with girl, 14, in woodland is jailed
A young man who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in woodland was jailed for three years and four months.Lewis Colclough pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child in November last year, when...
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Transfer gossip: Leicester City and Burnley eye up move for Crystal Palace...
Leicester City are eyeing up a move for for Crystal Palace striker Dwight Gayle, according to the Daily Mirror.The 24-year-old is believed to be frustrated with his lack of starts under Palace boss...
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Harborough council told it will have to ensure 700 homes are built each year
At least 3,500 homes will have to be built in the Harborough district over the next five years to hit government targets.Shock new figures were released to councillors at a meeting yesterday.The new...
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Gas bosses warn that one in ten boilers in Leicester are faulty
Gas network chiefs have issued a warning after a survey revealed that one in ten boilers inspected in Leicester were faulty.National Grid said that when more than 11,000 gas boilers, cookers and fires...
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'It's not a television, it's a clothes dryer': The daftest excuses people...
Whether you don't mind it or hate it, a television licence is just one of things most people have to have.But some people try their hardest to wriggle out of the obligation.TV Licensing has today...
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Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson accepts FA charge and requests personal...
Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has accepted the FA charge following a bust-up with a fan and has requested a personal hearing.The City boss was charged with using "abusive and/or insulting words...
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Doctor and two nurses charged with gross negligence manslaughter...
A doctor and two nurses have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a six-year-old boy at Leicester Royal Infirmary.The charges against Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, Sister...
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Cases at Leicester Magistrates' Court
Cases dealt with at Leicester Magistrates' Court include:Timothy York Heath (38), of Conery Lane, Enderby, pleaded guilty to stealing £70 from Westleigh Developments, Grange Business Park, Enderby...
View ArticleHospital jobs go with change to cleaning shifts
Union officials have condemned a move to working hours which has led to redundancies at two hospitals.The redundancies at the Hinckley and Bosworth Community Hospital and the Hinckley and District...
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