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Sanvey Gate stabbing: All roads reopened following police...
Sanvey Gate and Soar Lane have been reopened following a stabbing that left one man in a critical condition. An extensive police search - covering more than 200 metres of city centre roads - has now...
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Greville Janner: Lawyers says alleged victims want truth not...
Lawyers acting for Greville Janner's alleged victims have rejected a claim by his family that the men were motivated by a desire for compensation.Law firm Slater and Gordon spoke out in response to...
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BBC's Julie Wadsworth tells trial teen boy made her feel...
A BBC radio presenter said she felt attractive "for the first time" when she and a teenage boy touched each other in her home.Julie Wadsworth, 60, told how after meeting the teenager in the woods a...
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Police officer arrests man for having stun gun, accidentally...
A police officer accidentally shocked himself with a stun gun when arresting a suspect for having the weapon, which was disguised as a torch.Dawid Wisniewski admitted possessing the prohibited weapon...
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Hinckley 'sex pest' who molested disabled woman is jailed
A "sex pest" who molested four women in Leicestershire has been jailed. Leicester Crown Court heard that Alan Renwick "violated women on a regular basis in ways that for them have been immensely...
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Leicester taxi drivers report anti-Muslim abuse after Manchester...
Taxi drivers in Leicester have been receiving Islamophobic abuse following the Manchester bombings, a cab firm boss has said.Satbir Gill, who runs Hansom Taxis in London Road, says two of his staff...
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Stolen car torched in Western Park in Leicester
Arsonists are being blamed for torching a stolen car in Leicester's Western Park.A crew from the city's Western fire station attended the incident, in Hinckley Road, shortly after 5am today.Read more:...
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Police want to speak to this man after cash was stolen from...
Police have issued pictures of a man they want to speak to after money was stolen from a Leicester church. An undisclosed quantity of cash was stolen from Holy Cross Parish Church in Wellington Street...
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Garage fire in Market Harborough the work of arsonists
A garage behind a house was gutted in a blaze fire investigators believe was started deliberately. Crews from Market Harborough fire station attended the incident, in the town's Maurice Road, at about...
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Teenagers robbed by knife thugs in Leicester city centre street
Thugs armed with a knife threatened two teenagers with a knife before snatching a phone from one of them. The victims, a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, were targeted in King Richards Road,...
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Police hunt fake doctor behind Leicester winning lottery ticket...
A fraud gang which tricks people into handing over large sums of money in exchange for a worthless 'winning' lottery ticket has struck in Leicester. The con artists targeted two people in the past few...
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Knife crime in Leicestershire: Are we facing a crisis?
So far this year in Leicestershire eight lives have been lost to alleged knife crime. The shocking statistic compares with seven knife fatalities in the county in the whole of 2016. There appears to be...
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Mum of Leicester knife crime victim Tyler Thompson speaks out...
Amy Morgan is a "nervous wreck" every time she hears there has been another stabbing in Leicester.Until she knows otherwise, she fears one of her children is the latest victim of the "epidemic" of...
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Leicestershire Police chief vows county is a safe place in letter...
Dear reader,As you will have gathered from recent media reports, we have seen an unprecedented number of major incidents in the first five months of this year.Crime naturally fluctuates and there are...
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Julie Wadsworth's nude calendar photoshoot evidence in court case
Former BBC Radio Leicester presenter Julie Wadsworth posed nearly naked for a "Naughty but Nice" charity calendar, a court has heard.Julie, who denies child sex offences in public woodland and has...
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Jail for driver who took phone call and crashed into and killed...
A driver who crashed into and killed a motorcyclist because he was distracted by a phone call has been jailed.Garry Allen was travelling to a business meeting in his car along the A52, in...
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Tony and Julie Wadsworth trial: Sexual encounter with stranger...
A former BBC Radio Leicester presenter has told a jury that he "stepped to one side" and allowed a young stranger to engage in public sex with his wife because it "empowered" her. Tony Wadsworth called...
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Jail for Iraq veteran masseur Matthew Yates who secretly filmed...
A masseur from Loughborough who sexually assaulted some clients and filmed them using a secret camera hidden in a clock has been jailed. Iraq War veteran Matthew Yates, of Laburnum Way, Loughborough,...
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Police continue Sanvey Gate stabbing inquiry as victim's...
Detectives are continuing their investigation into events which led to a man being found with stab wounds in a city street this week, Leicestershire Police said today. The victim, who was found at the...
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Million pound drugs gang and its Leicester members jailed for...
Fifteen people who were involved in a £1 million drug dealing operation have been jailed for more than 100 years today. The gang, several of whom are from Leicester or Leicestershire, were nailed by...
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