News in Ashby

North West Leicestershire District Council has invested £100,000 in a local bus service linking Ashby to Burton and East Midlands Airport.

The move is aimed at helping boost employment links and its Zero Carbon ambition.

Ashby shop Pennies Worth are helping a little girl collect 150 Easter Eggs to donate to NHS key workers.

The Market Street shop is the donation point in town for the collection - and wants to spread the word to the community and local business.

Ashby MP Andrew Bridgen has described Captain Sir Tom Moore as 'a true British hero in every sense'.

Captain Tom passed away on Tuesday with coronavirus.

The organiser of the Timber Festival in Moira says this year's event can go ahead as planned with the correct Covid measures in place.

Rowan Cannon told MPs festivals have the potential to be "as safe as Sainsbury's", despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Local Police and North West Leicestershire District Council are clamping down on supermarket customers who are not wearing masks.

Tesco in Ashby was among the stores to get a visit following complaint from customers.

Police are investigating the theft of bees from hives in Ashby after raiders broke into private land and caused damage that has left the owner 'devastated'.

The incident us thought to have happened sometime on Monday - and left one hive 'smashed up'.

North West Leicestershire District Council chief executive Bev Smith had apologised 'unreservedly' after a confidential report revealed that £667,000 had been lost from the Council's Housing Revenue Account, due to error.

The Labour Group on the District Council has also called for the resignation of Conservative Councillor Roger Bayliss as Housing, Property and Customer Services Portfolio Holder as a result.

Ashby butchers W.Taylor says it hopes to reopen as normal on Thursday (February 4).

The popular Market Street shop said last week that its hours were being affected by those in isolation and resulting staff shortages.

Coalville MP Andrew Bridgen has welcomed the Government's plans to make it even easier for employer of all sizes to join its flagship £2billion Kickstart Scheme, which has already created more than 120,000 jobs across the UK.

The scheme is designed to give young people at risk of long-term unemployment a future of hope and opportunity, by creating high-quality, government-subsidised jobs across the UK, supporting them into work as it delivers on its commitment to level up the entire country.

North West Leicestershire Police have alerted motorists to a spate of catalytic converter thefts in the Ashby and Coalville area.

This is a problem that was spotted in the North Warwickshire area recently and appears to have headed up the A42.