Barry_Cooper1 commented Tesco to charge for Click and Collect service
No longer will it be free to order your shopping and collect it in store after Tesco confirmed that it was changing its rules.Originally, if you were to use their Click and Collect service, you could...
View ArticleMercury_Sport commented Leicester City transfer news: Monaco defender Marcel...
Leicester City are closing in on the signing of Monaco defender Marcel Tisserand, according to reports in France.Tisserand's agent Patrick N'Tanda said while no deal has been finalised they are in...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Parks host summer activity drive
Children and their families are invited to join a summer park craze.The challenge, Move it – Boom, is to visit parks across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. It encourages children to complete as...
View ArticleAlanThompson published Buxom beauties and bulging bosoms in bodice-ripping...
A bevy of buxom beauties, bulging bosoms and elements of a Brian Rix farce make up the bawdy comedy that is Tom Jones.Staged by the Stamford Shakespeare Company at the Rutland Open Air Theatre at...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Student jailed for manslaughter after family die...
A student jailed for his part in a vigilante arson attack which left four members of a family dead has failed in a Court of Appeal bid for freedom.Akeem Jeffers (22) was one of six young men jailed...
View ArticleBarry_Cooper1 published St Swithin's Day: 40 days and nights of rain coming...
The legend of St Swithin's Day has been around for years and if it is to be believed, we are set to be on the wrong end of some pretty unfortunate weather for more than a month.The traditional old...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury commented Leicester Tigers move on from painful season...
Leicester Tigers No. 8 Jordan Crane says the squad are all happy to be back in pre-season training because it will help them dump the 2014/15 campaign from their minds.The 29-year-old is being put...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published GPs join forces in 'super' surgery
Plans for a "super surgery" combining three GP practices in Coalville are to go ahead.Long Lane Surgery and Coalville Health Centre will merge on September 28 and The Family Practice will then join the...
View ArticlePA_Warzynski published Portrait of MH17 victim Richard Mayne displayed to...
A portrait of MH17 victim Richard Mayne will be displayed at Leicester Cathedral to mark the one year anniversary of the devastating crash.Twenty-year-old Richard was killed when the Malaysia Airlines...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Family raises funds for 'angels' at Hospice at...
Family and friends have raised more than £1,000 to say thanks for the care given in the last days of a cancer sufferer's life.The money was raised in memory of Robert Porter, 76, of Loughborough, who...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published NHS trust plan to extend smoking ban
People using mental and community health services could soon be told to stub out their cigarettes. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is hoping to make its services smoke-free by the end of next...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Golf: Martin Anderson wins County Amateur...
Martin Anderson won the County Amateur Championship for the first time when it was decided at Kirby Muxloe.The County first-team regular from Market Harborough shot 68-72 for his two-under-par 140 to...
View ArticleCiaranfagan published Sexual assault victim's relief after abuser is locked...
A woman who was sexually abused between the ages of three and 16 has spoken of her relief at seeing her tormentor jailed decades later.The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke after...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Sam and Amy: Gem 106 presenters beat Emma Bunton...
Breakfast show presenters Sam Pinkham and Amy Voce have done it again – beating the likes of Christian O'Connell, Emma Bunton and Jamie Theakston to a top radio award.The duo's show, on East Midlands...
View Articleatroughton published Three people taken to hospital after two-car crash on A5...
Three people were taken to hospital after a two-car crash on the A5 between Hinckley and Magna Park in Leicestershire today.Firefighters used cutting equipment to free the driver of one car after the...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published ACES football: Aylestone Park Youth under-11s...
Aylestone Park Youth under-11s were crowned national champions as this year's ACES tournament drew to a close.More than 200 title-winning sides have battled it out to be named the nation's best over...
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View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Company ordered to pay £100,000 in fines...
A haulage company was hit with more than £100,000 in fines and costs after a worker broke his back falling through a roof.Andrew Bannister suffered life-affecting injuries because safety precautions...
View ArticleMercury_Sport commented Claudio Ranieri vows not to 'tinker' too much with...
Claudio Ranieri said he will not be making wholesale changes to the way Leicester City will tackle the Premier League again this season.The new City boss, who was dubbed Tinkerman during his time in...
View ArticleLeicester Mercury published Barker Ross set to move into Mercury Place in...
A recruitment firm is relocating its main office to the building occupied by the Leicester Mercury.Barker Ross will be the fifth company to move into Mercury Place, in St George Street,...
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