Mercury_Sport published Leicester Mercury Sports Awards: Golfer Coby...
The ambitions of intriguingly-named county golfer Coby Blue Cartwright know no bounds.The 17-year-old first tried the sport at the tender age of four, loved it, and soon linked up with coach Ian Bailey...
View ArticlePA_Warzynski published Charity gospel concert to raise money for new...
More than 40 gospel singers will hold a fund-raising concert on Saturday night to help pay for the renovation of a city community centre.The DMU Gospel Choir will be at the Sue Townsend Theatre -...
View ArticleCiaranfagan published Witness appeal after pedestrian is seriously injured in...
A pedestrian is in hospital with serious injuries after he was involved in a collision with a car. The 54-year-old was injured in Belgrave Road, Leicester at 8.45pm on Tuesday. He was taken to...
View Articledanjmartin published Motorists and bus users warned of disruption as...
Motorists and bus users have been warned to expect some disruption when a scheme to revamp one of Leicester's busiest streets begins next week. The work on Charles Street is being carried out as part...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Leicester City v Watford – classic match:...
In the history of matches between Leicester City and Watford, there is often a common theme that runs among them. Goals.A brief scroll of the two sides' previous meetings casts a startling record of...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Exeter v Leicester Tigers: Long night ahead for...
Jordan Crane and former team-mate Julian Salvi will discuss Saturday's Aviva Premiership game between Leicester Tigers and Exeter long into the night.When the two friends have finished knocking seven...
View ArticleMercury_Sport commented Leicester City v Watford – match preview:...
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will tomorrow go up against the man who profited from his painful sacking at Valencia – Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores. Ranieri had been in charge at the La...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Exeter v Leicester Tigers – match preview:...
Tom Croft has plenty of admiration for Exeter Chiefs, who play hosts to Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership on Saturday evening (5.30pm).The back-row forward knows exactly what he and his Tigers...
View Articledanjmartin published Stoneygate School children create giant purple alien guy...
He's big. He's fluffy. He's purple and, on Saturday he'll sit proudly on the giant bonfire at Leicester Racecourse at the Rainbows Festival of Fireworks. The gigantic alien, around 10 feet, is the...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published NEWS: Vauxhall statement regarding Zafira B recall
Vauxhall has been investigating Zafira B models following reports of fires in the area of the heating and ventilation system and has taken this issue very seriously.In order to provide Vauxhall...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Exeter v Leicester Tigers: New dad Matt Smith is...
Matt Smith's newborn son already has one up on his dad.Monty Smith was born just before Leicester Tigers started their Aviva Premiership season at London Irish.Two weeks later, he was at Welford Road...
View Articledanjmartin published Leicestershire FBU questions £1.2 million reserves...
Fire service bosses have plan to build up a £1.2 million "contingency fund" while pressing ahead with £1.5 million of yearly cuts to frontline 999 services. Leicestershire and Rutland Fire and Rescue...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Picture Gallery - Melon Carving Artist Amrat Parmar
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View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Leicester Riders v Sheffield Sharks: Semi-final...
Leicester Riders face Sheffield Sharks at Loughborough University on Sunday (6.0) for a place in the BBL Cup semi-finals.The pair met in the league in Yorkshire only two weeks ago with Riders running...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Film of the week: Brooklyn (12A)
It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for. There was no buzz to speak of when Brooklyn screened at the Sundance Film Festival at the start of this year, but the closing credits rolled to a...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published 48 Hours: Our pick of stuff to do in...
The next edition of the live action adaptation of the Roy of the Rovers strip plays out at the King Power Stadium this afternoon, as Roy Race - in his cunning Jamie Vardy disguise - goes for his ninth...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Two people taken to hospital early today after...
Two people were taken to hospital after a road crash in a county village early this morning.The collision occurred at 2.31am in Sapcote Road, Burbage and involved two cars.A fire service spokeswoman...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury commented 10 ways to make Leicester a better place to live
Unfettered power and limitless cash. What would you do with that? Okay. And what would you do after you'd packed off Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan to solitary confinement. With a wasps' nest in each...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published The Last Word: Kathryn Tickell
The last record I bought or song I downloaded: I love having a rummage round on Spotify or iTunes… I end up with all sorts of weird and wonderful things. The last book I read: I'm in the middle of a...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Stannard behaviour: Likely lad Leo is Leicester's...
A "real superstar in waiting" is the description that comes from the press office publicising Leicestershire's Leo Stannard. Persistent PR people will use lines like this all the time, of course, but...
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