News in Ashby

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is to use Ashby as the starting point of a 10-year tour of the UK's libraries.

Each spring for the next decade, he will perform live readings across the UK, from the flagship libraries of big cities to smaller libraries serving rural and remote communities, reports thebookseller.com.

Environmentally friendly residents in North West Leicestershire have helped to boost the district's household recycling rate by 1.3 per cent, new figures have revealed.

In 2019, North West Leicestershire District Council launched its Recycle More… campaign which aims to improve the district's recycling rate to 50 per cent by 2023.

The man who murdered Measham schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood has died in prison.

Stephen Beadman, 34, was sentenced to life after killing Kayleigh, who was aged 15 and was serving time in Wakefield Prison.

The candidates for the upcoming Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) election on Thursday, May 6, have been finalised.

North West Leicestershire District Council the authority responsible for the administration of the election, has confirmed the following candidates will be on the ballot paper after nominations closed today (Thursday, April 8).

This year's virtual Aldi Ashby 20 race raised £700 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The event normally takes place in and around the streets of Ashby and the surrounding villages.

A fire which broke out at an Ashby property just before Easter is still being investigated by Leicestershire Police.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue were called out to the blaze which happened in Avenue Road last Thursday, April 1.

The Bull's Head - on Market Street in Ashby - has outlined its plans to reopen outdoors on Monday, April 12.

The pub has ensured it complies with the new COVID-19 Secure Workplace Guidance for Pubs and Restaurants, introducing measures to protect staff and customers and ensuring the smooth running of operations.

Leisure centres in Ashby and Coalville are set to reopen from next Monday after the Government's go-ahead for Step 2 of the roadmap.

Ashby's Hood Park Leisure Centre, along with Hermitage Leisure Centre in Whitwick, will open its doors again following a three-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Leicestershire housebuilder David Wilson Homes has donated £250 to Ashby Foodbank to help its volunteers continue to help those in need during the Covid-19 crisis.

Based at Ashby Congregational Church, the foodbank's distribution was approximately 1.5 times higher in 2020 compared with the previous year and, in December alone, its volunteers delivered 4.1 tonnes of food to 88 families.

Plans to convert an Ashby care home into a 'new secure residential institution facility' could get the go-ahead week - despite hundreds of local residents campaigning to stop the development.

Next Tuesday's meeting of North West Leicestershire District Council's planning committee will discuss the application by Rushcliffe Care Group to convert Loudon House, in Ridgway Road, with advice that it should be permitted - but only with conditions designed to allay the fears of people living in the area.