Leicester Mercury published Leicester Riders NEWS: Neil Watson and TrayVonn...
Leicester Riders duo Neil Watson and TrayVonn Wright have been selected in the BBL team of the week.The pair were key figures in Riders' 90-80 victory at Plymouth Riders in the BBL Championship on...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester Tigers NEWS: Tom Youngs and two Stade...
Leicester Tigers hooker Tom Youngs is facing a ban after being cited in the ill-tempered game Champions Cup Round 6 match against Stade Francais on Sunday. Youngs is alleged to have punched the Stade...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester Tigers NEWS: Stade defeat will not affect...
Lock-forward Graham Kitchener insists Leicester Tigers' defeat by Stade Francais at the weekend will not have a lasting effect on them ahead of their Champions Cup quarter-final meeting in April.The...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester Tigers NEWS: Jean de Villiers is excited to...
Leicester Tigers centre Jean de Villiers is looking forward to finally lining up alongside Manu Tuilagi.The two men have 136 international caps between them and many Tigers fans have been licking their...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester City NEWS: Robert Huth admits reality of...
Robert Huth admits Leicester City are refusing to give themselves a target of what they want to achieve as they might find the reality too scary. City head into February top of the Premier League in a...
View ArticleBarry_Cooper1 published Today's most shared stories in Leicester on...
Top of the table Leicester City dominate the most shared stories in Leicester this afternoon, with rumours aplenty about who may be coming and going from the King Power Stadium, while the Tigers make...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Hospital porters with hair-raising charity aims
A whole lot of shaving is going on as a group of hospital porters step up to raise charity cash. The five men, who all work at Leicester Royal Infirmary have planned the event to raise money for...
View ArticleTom_Mack commented Roadworks: New rules to force councils and utility...
New Government rules mean councils and utility companies can be fined up to £5,000 a day for leaving roadworks unmanned at weekends. The Department for Transport aims to reduce traffic congestion by...
View ArticleTim_Healy27 published Distraction thieves steal purse from woman in Market...
Police are warning people to be on their guard after a woman had her purse stolen by distraction thieves in Market Harborough town centre yesterday.The incident occurred at midday in the market car...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury commented 'Rocketing' numbers of patients at Leicester...
Emergency doctors have appealed to patients not to put off getting medical help if they are feeling unwell. It comes in response to rocketing numbers of people coming into the A&E department at...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester City TRANSFER NEWS: Deadline Day live blog:...
It promises to be an interesting end to the January transfer window for Premier League leaders Leicester City. We will be running a live transfer blog for a marathon 14 hours on Monday, February 1, to...
View ArticleBarry_Cooper1 published Universal Credits: What YOU need to know
For those jobseekers who will be making claims in Leicester, will now be offered Universal Credit which replaces the former Jobseeker's Allowance.There are just 15 centres in the country that will be...
View Articledanjmartin commented Leicester's Central fire station saved from closure and...
No firefighters are to be made compulsorily redundant and no fire stations closed following a rethink of controversial frontline 999 cuts in Leicestershire.Fire authority chairman Nick Rushton has...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester City TRANSFER NEWS: A new signing and what...
Today's Leicester City news has once again been dominated by what's going on in the transfer market as the deadline approaches for the close of the January transfer window. City have until 11pm on...
View ArticleCiaranfagan published Police fire Taser at 'aggressive' and armed man
Police fired a Taser stun gun at a man who was said to be "aggressive" and armed this morning. The man was detained in a house in Highfield Street, in Coalville town centre. Leicestershire Police said...
View ArticleIFrodsham published £90,000 revamp project for Freeman's Meadow Lock
A £90,000 canal restoration project is set to be unveiled this weekend. Freeman's Meadow Lock, on the Grand Union Canal, in Leicester, is going to be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday....
View ArticleCiaranfagan published Call for action after 150 'laughing gas' cannisters...
A new warning over the dangers of inhaling "laughing gas" has been issued after 150 of the cannisters it comes in were found on a village industrial estate. The discarded cannisters of nitrous oxide...
View ArticleMercury_Sport published Leicester Tigers NEWS: Stade Francais duo handed...
The two Stade Francais forwards cited for 'contact with the eye area' during the fiesty Champions Cup fixture with Leicester Tigers in Paris last Sunday have both received heavy suspensions.Lock Paul...
View ArticleDavidWOwen published Big Brother producers at Leicester Market looking for...
Big Brother producers will be in Leicester on Friday to recruit the reality TV series' next housemates. Casting agents for the Channel 4 programme will be at Leicester Market from 11.30am scouting for...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Leicester Riders NEWS: The 48-year search for a...
It's taken almost half-a-century, but on Saturday night Leicester Riders will finally end their nomadic tour of Leicestershire and move into a home they can call their own.The voyage began at the end...
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