Leicester City bosses to speak to Spanish authorities over police...
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...
View ArticleWant to report a crime? Leicestershire Police launches online...
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...
View ArticleCCTV appeal after man is punched and grabbed by the throat...
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...
View ArticleMan knocked ex-girlfriend out near Leicester bar - even though...
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...
View ArticleSpice: 'They don't know what they're putting into their bodies',...
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...
View ArticleWatch disturbing video that shows zombie drug Spice's effect on...
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...
View ArticleFan arrested in Madrid was "sober and just in the wrong...
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...
View ArticleHeaps of rubbish dumped in countryside in latest fly-tipping
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...
View ArticleCocaine brick worth £40k thrown from window lands at...
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...
View ArticleTwo charged in connection with robbery at Shepshed building...
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...
View ArticleBadly parked cars nearly prevent fire engine from reaching...
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...
View ArticleCriminals in Leicestershire ordered to pay up £5.2 million...
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...
View ArticleDangerous driver avoids jail after leaving couple injured in...
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...
View ArticleKirby Muxloe villagers discovered defibrillator was missing...
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 -...
View ArticleDouble-decker bus cafe is vandalised AGAIN after moving from...
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...
View ArticleAnstey sex attack victim's plea to trace Good Samaritan who...
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...
View ArticleLeicester City v Atletico Madrid: Armed police on patrol ahead of...
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...
View ArticleTeenager punched and robbed by thugs on Leicester canal towpath
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...
View ArticleImmigration officials detain 39 people in two Leicester factory...
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,...
View ArticleCan you help find missing Chloe Hallam, 15?
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...
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