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April 13, 2017, 5:06 am

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Leicester City is speaking to the Spanish authorities and Uefa to establish the cause of disturbances involving its fans in Madrid before last night's Champion's League match. The club wants to hear the reasons for the local police's behaviour – which has been branded aggressive and heavy-handed by some fans. A number of City fans have complained of police violence in the hours before the quarter final clash with Atletico Madrid, especially in the 'fans' zone' in the Plaza Mayor public...

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Want to report a crime? Leicestershire Police launches online...

April 13, 2017, 6:00 am

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Leicestershire Police has introduced a system which allows people to go online to report crimes.A dedicated page has been set up on the force's website for the purpose. The force hopes the online reporting facility will ease pressure on its contact management centre.Visitors to the page are greeted with the following questions:Is a crime happening right now?Is the suspect still at the scene?Is anyone seriously injured or in immediate danger?If the answer to any of these questions is 'yes', then...

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April 13, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Police have issued a CCTV image of a man officers want to trace in connection with an attack in London Road, Leicester.Officers want to speak to the man after a 49-year-old was kicked and beaten as he walked past Leicester railway station.The attack happened at 9pm on Wednesday, February 22, Leicestershire Police said.The force released the image and appealed for help tracing the man pictured.Read more: Family of poorly Mia Phipps ask people to write to her in hospital to cheer her upIn a...

Man knocked ex-girlfriend out near Leicester bar - even though...

April 14, 2017, 3:40 am

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A bricklayer who smashed a bottle on a man's head in a pub, and knocked his ex-girlfriend unconscious in a separate incident, has been jailed.Luke Berry admitted causing actual bodily harm to a customer in the Sophbeck bar, King Street, Leicester city centre, on June 4 last year.Leicester Crown Court was told Berry's friend had begun exchanging punches with the victim when Berry smashed a bottle he was holding on the man's head.The resulting injury needed hospital treatment and has left a...

Spice: 'They don't know what they're putting into their bodies',...

April 14, 2017, 10:00 pm

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A growing number of hardened class A drug users and street drinkers are turning to Mamba, also known as Spice, because of its potency and low price, a doctor has warned.Dr Andy Ball, of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, previously told the Leicester Mercury: "Every single drug user has heard of Mamba and they will tell you that, of all the drugs out there, it's the one with the biggest reputation for being dangerous."Unfortunately, a lot of the traditional drug users have started...

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April 14, 2017, 10:00 pm

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The man remained standing, bent double and perilously close to toppling over for almost 40 minutes.When he came round he said he had smoked Mamba, or Spice – the notorious synthetic cannabis which induces this frozen, catatonic state in some of its users.Others behave in a far more distressing, erratic fashion after they have smoked the outlawed former 'legal high'.The Leicester Mercury spotted the man, who appeared to be in his late-40s, in New Walk, in the city centre.Apart from the...

Fan arrested in Madrid was "sober and just in the wrong...

April 15, 2017, 2:47 am

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A Foxes fan arrested in Madrid has claimed he did nothing wrong and had not even been drinking when he was detained by riot police.The fan was one of eight Leicester City supporters given suspended jail sentences after the clashes between fans and riot police in the Spanish capital on April 11.He told the BBC he and his father, who was also arrested and charged, were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.Read More: Man in coma after collision involving police vanHe said: "We heard a...

Heaps of rubbish dumped in countryside in latest fly-tipping

April 15, 2017, 6:45 am

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Two massive mounds of rubbish have been dumped in the countryside to the west of the city.Piles of household waste and rubble were dumped at Tinsel Lane near Market Bosworth and on private land near Bagworth Heath.Disgusted residents alerted community representatives to the dumping and highlighted the mess on social media.Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton ward councillor Chris Boothby - a member of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council - was contacted and the authorities are working to track down...

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April 15, 2017, 6:50 am

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A drug gang raided by police tossed a £40,000 block of compressed cocaine out of the window but it landed at an officer's feet.All 11 are now beginning jail sentences including 26-year-old Leicester man Prince Martin-Fullerton after the raid by West Midlands Police in Quinton, near Birmingham, in September last year.The gang had links across the Midlands and operation was brought down by an undercover police operation that went on for eight months.As well as the £40,000 block of...

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April 16, 2017, 1:21 am

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Two men have been charged in connection with robbery at a town building society.Two men from Ilkeston were arrested on Saturday and have been charged in connection with the incident at the Nottingham Building Society, in Bull Ring, Shepshed, on March 24.Read More: Operation cancelled for sixth time as surgeon calls in sickChristopher Dennis (48), of Pedley Street, Ilkeston, has been charged with robbery and Marlon Watson (31), of French Street, Ilkeston, has been charged with robbery and...

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April 16, 2017, 1:54 am

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Firefighters struggled to get to the scene of a car fire in a residential street today because of bad parking. Crews were called to Princess Road in Hinckley at 12.55am this morning after receiving reports of a car on fire. The crew from Hinckley fire station were sent to the scene and put the fire out but the car was severely damaged. Firefighters believe the car, which was parked on the road outside homes, was set on fire deliberately. Read More: Two massive heaps of rubbish dumped in...

Criminals in Leicestershire ordered to pay up £5.2 million...

April 16, 2017, 4:15 am

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More people in Leicestershire are being hit with confiscation orders to claw back ill-gotten gains than almost anywhere else in Britain.Figures obtained by the Leicester Mercury show one confiscation order was issued for every 2,800 people living in the area between January 2015 and March 2017.In that time, the total number of confiscation orders, mostly granted following applications by Leicestershire Police, was 384 - or £5.2m worth.Confiscation orders are one of the key mechanisms...

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April 17, 2017, 3:20 am

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A driver lost control of his high-powered new car and smashed head-on into another vehicle, severely injuring an elderly man and his wife.Mark Biggs (41) and his mother, who was in the front passenger seat of his Mitsubishi Evolution, were also both badly hurt in the crash.Leicester Crown Court was told that Biggs had taken his mother for a ride in the car, which he had bought two weeks earlier, on the afternoon of Friday March 6, 2015.At 4.15pm, the off-duty lorry driver pulled up at a set of...

Kirby Muxloe villagers discovered defibrillator was missing...

April 17, 2017, 6:20 am

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Villagers were left shocked when they discovered a defibrillator was missing after someone had collapsed and needed emergency treatment.Concerned passers-by had opened the cabinet in Kirby Muxloe - using a code - but the life-saving equipment was nowhere to be seen.The incident has been reported to the police and is being treated as a suspected theft.Resident Sue Armstrong – a cardiac nurse at Glenfield Hospital - said: "A villager collapsed recently and the ambulance service gave out...

Double-decker bus cafe is vandalised AGAIN after moving from...

April 17, 2017, 7:46 am

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A cafe in a converted vintage double-decker bus has been vandalised days after moving into its new home in Leicester's Abbey Park.Peppercorns Cafe owner Cathy Cliffe moved the bus earlier this month to the city park from its previous base in Bradgate Park, where it had been attacked repeatedly.The latest incident happened on Thursday night.A group of youths were caught on the bus's newly-installed CCTV system walking around the vehicle, which is parked behind the park's cafe.Read more: Dangerous...

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Anstey sex attack victim's plea to trace Good Samaritan who...

April 18, 2017, 8:00 am

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A woman has urged a Good Samaritan who intervened when she was being sexually assaulted to come forward to help police trace her attacker.The victim was walking past the Green, in Bradgate Road, Anstey when she was approached by a man who was jogging.He pushed her to the ground and touched her inappropriately, Leicestershire Police said.A passing motorist stopped and the suspect ran off towards The Nook.Police have not been able to trace the motorist.Read more: Double-decker bus cafe is attacked...

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April 18, 2017, 9:30 am

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Armed police are on the streets in the city centre and around the King Power Stadium ahead of Leicester City's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid tonight. Leicestershire Police said the decision to deploy the officers was not an indication of any threat to the city, the teams or to fans attending the second-leg match. Nationally, the threat to the UK from international terrorism remains "severe". Also, the Borussia Dortmund squad were targeted by three roadside bombs...

Teenager punched and robbed by thugs on Leicester canal towpath

April 18, 2017, 10:09 am

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Police are searching for two thugs who attacked a teenager and took his bank card and phone.The 18-year-old was targeted as he walked along the canal towpath at the bottom of Discovery Road, near Leicester Space Centre.Two youths approached him and punched him in the face before taking his card and navy and chrome Samsung telephone.The attack happened at 4.45pm on Wednesday, April 5.The suspects were both black and in their late teens.Read more: Woman assaulted by jogger urges Good Samaritan to...

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April 19, 2017, 7:53 am

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Immigration officials detained 39 people in raids on two Leicester clothing factories.The Home Office Immigration Enforcement team staged unannounced visits to MK Clothing Ltd and Fashion Times UK Ltd, in Temple Road, North Evington.Of the 39 men and women who were detained, 31 had outstayed their visas, seven had entered the country illegally and one was working in breach of their visa conditions.Officials, who were accompanied by Leicestershire Police and HM Revenue and Customs, found evidence...

Can you help find missing Chloe Hallam, 15?

April 19, 2017, 9:19 am

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Police have circulated a photograph of a 15-year-old girl who has been reported missing from home.Chloe Hallam was reported missing from her home in Bradshaw Avenue, Glen Parva yesterday.She was last seen in Overseal Road, New Parks, Leicester, shortly after 10pm and has not been seen since.In a statement this afternoon, Leicestershire Police said: "If you've seen Chloe since yesterday evening or you know her current whereabouts please contact us."She is of dual heritage appearance,...