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Drivers - You've bin warned - Leicestershire wheelies to carry...
Wheelie-bins are the latest tool to be used to encourage speeding drivers to slow down. A joint campaign by the police, councils and the Leicestershire and Rutland Road Safety Partnership will see...
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Drugs runner arrested moments after arriving at flat to deliver...
A drugs runner was arrested after arriving at a flat to deliver a wrap of cannabis, a court heard. Moshin Chawdhury, 22, had just let himself into the property when police, following a tip off, raided...
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Man seriously ill after stabbing in Wigston
A man is seriously ill in hospital after he was stabbed this morning. The 25-year-old was injured during a confrontation with another man in Parvian Road, Wigston at 10.15am. He was taken to Leicester...
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Wigston stabbing: witness gave first aid to seriously injured man
A man is seriously ill in hospital after he was stabbed by a knife-wielding thug. The 25-year-old was injured during a confrontation with the man in Parvian Road, on the border between Leicester and...
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Wigston stabbing: man in court on attempted murder charge
A man is due to appear in court today charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in Wigston yesterday. Dean Bradley, 47, of Earle Smith Close, Whetstone, also faces a charge of possession of...
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Labour's Lord Willy Bach aims to be next Leicestershire's next...
Labour peer Lord Bach of Lutterworth has said he wants to be the next Leicestershire police and crime commissioner. Willy Bach has announced he wants to be the party's candidate in the upcoming...
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Kayleigh Haywood: Teenager died from head and facial injuries
Kayleigh Haywood died from head and facial injuries, a preliminary postmortem report has found.An inquest into her death which opened today was told this was the 'provisional cause of death'.Her...
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Wigston stabbing: suspect in hospital after falling ill in court
A man charged with attempted murder was taken to hospital this morning after he fell ill before he could appear in court. Dean Bradley, who is accused of stabbing a man in Wigston yesterday morning,...
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Police issue CCTV in hunt for would-be petrol station robber
A man armed with a knife threatened petrol station staff and ordered them to empty the till. The raider, whose face was covered by a hood and a scarf, fled empty-handed when staff activated an alarm....
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Golden Mile restaurant closed down for third time this year...
A restaurant in Leicester's Golden Mile has been closed for the third time this year because of a rat infestation. The Belgrave Road eaterie had hygiene protection orders place on it by Leicester...
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Drunken robber threatened five high school pupils at knifepoint...
A drunken robber who threatened five teenagers at knifepoint in a park has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years detention. Charlie Skillen approached the high school pupils in Loughborough's...
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Murder investigation launched after teenager, 16, dies in...
A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old died following an incident in Leicester last night.Officers were called at around 7.50pm to reports of an altercation between several men in...
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Cases at Leicester Magistrates' Court
Cases heard before Leicester Magistrates' Court include: Evaldas Rucinskas (40), of Leicester Road, Sapcote, pleaded guilty to causing another person to use a vehicle without third-party insurance in...
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Armed robber involved in newsagent attack jailed for five years
An armed robber involved in an attack on a newsagent has been jailed for five years. Umasutharshan Thavarajah had a finger broken and his arm injured in the attack, at 11.40pm, on September 21, near...
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Rape victim's account of attack aftermath: 'I felt alone,...
It doesn't define me, she says, it's just another chapter in my story. Her story – one which no one should ever have to tell – is being recounted anonymously, and the Leicester student, 19, is only...
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Twice-the-limit drink driver jailed for crash which killed...
A reckless motorist who was twice the drink-drive limit when he killed his friend in a crash, after ignoring her desperate pleas to slow down, has been jailed. William Wallace (19), of The Broadway,...
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Police hunt driver after cyclist assaulted - do you know this...
Police are searching for a driver who allegedly attacked a cyclist. Officers have released a photograph of a man they want to trace in connection with the incident, which happened at the junction of...
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Jail for 'predatory' scout leader who sexually abused girl
A scout leader indecently assaulted a girl guide as she rehearsed for her role in a show he was putting on. Andrew Barratt, of Klondyke Way, Asfordby, took the 12-year-old youngster to the rear of the...
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Relief in Leicestershire as Osborne backs down on police cuts
Leicestershire's chief constable, Simon Cole, has welcomed a Government U-turn on widely anticipated cuts to police budgets. The Leicestershire force was braced for a cut of at least 25 per cent in its...
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Tyler Thompson murder: Men bailed as police continue to quiz...
Two men who were arrested in connection with the death of a 16-year-old boy in Leicester this week have been released on bail while detectives continue to question a teenager. The victim, named locally...
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