News in Ashby

Ashby United Community Football Club has launched a challenge to see how far they as a community can travel around the world by exercising during the UK lockdown.

Anyone in the community is welcome to take part in the challenge with any form of exercise counting, a walk, run, cycle etc - as long as the exercise can be tracked via Strava it counts.

Labour councillors are pressing North West Leicestershire District Council to drop highly controversial employment land policies from the Local Plan.

The policies in question provide a loophole which enables developers to build huge new warehouses almost anywhere they like on land designated as countryside, provided it has a reasonable connection to the road network.

Castle Medical Group in Ashby has taken the first steps towards offering Covid vaccinations at its Burton Road surgery.

The Health Centre has a limited supply of the Astra Zeneca vaccine - but it is a one off for the moment.

Nearly 100,000 people have received their first Covid jab across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, figures have revealed.

Some 96,870 patients have had their first dose, with a further 5,762 second doses given at vaccination centres and hubs in the area since the rollout started.

Pre-bookable vaccine slots at Leicester's hospitals have all been filled after thousands of people took up the offer.

Up to 1,000 appointments a day were made available via hospital hubs but they are now booked up.

Fishers has hired two new experts in the conveyancing team with nearly 70 years of experience.

The Ashby-based solicitors is proud to welcome a new solicitor and conveyancer.

Ashby de la Zouch Town Council chairman and Mayor, Cllr Graham Allman, presented his report to Monday's Full Council meeting.

He gave some of the highlights of the past three months which have been hit once again by a coronavirus lockdown. This is what Cllr Allman said.

A facility opens five miles from Ashby on Monday as part of a programme to provide the county's key workers with rapid community testing for Covid-19.

Testing is already underway six days a week in Wigston Fields and Blaby, and on February 1, a testing centre will open at Swannington Village Hall.

Coronavirus cases across North West Leicestershire are steadily decreasing.

Government figures show that, between January 21 and January 27, 306 people had a confirmed positive test result. This shows a decrease of 17.3 per cent compared to the previous seven days

Ashby MP Andrew Bridgen joined over 80 parliamentarians in calling for greater support for the aviation, travel and tourism industries following the recent closure of all travel corridors.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Future of Aviation the MP for North West Leicestershire has acknowledged that the latest restrictions were a necessary measure to protect the UK public from the spread of new variants of COVID-19.