News in Ashby

The Ashby Arts Festival Creative Weekender will be launched online today (Saturday) after the main event in May had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Festival organisers say they have a wide range of contributors for the Bank Holiday platform where artists can showcase their work.

A series of vehicles had their windows smashed in Netherseal during Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning.

Swadlincote Police are currently investigating the trail of damage caused and are appealing for information from anyone who knows anything about the attacks on these vehicles.

Castle Medical Group in Ashby will no longer be accepting new patients from Moira, Donisthorpe or Norris Hill from next month.

The Burton Road surgery says Ashby's ever-growing population is behind the decision - although existing patients from the three areas mentioned will not be affected.

UPDATE: Leicestershire Police say a man has identified himself to officers following an earlier appeal in relation to an incident where a woman was inappropriately touched in a shop in Moira.

They have issued a thank you to everyone who helped by sharing the appeal. Enquiries are continuing.

* The Championship team left their Loughborough University training camp for the day

• Wednesday's players players tried their hand at the shooting activities and impressed

Major works along the River Mease at Measham are planned by the Trent Rivers Trust.

The work is in collaboration with partners of the River Mease Catchment Restoration Project and focuses on the river's Special Area of Conservation and Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Both Ashby School and Ivanhoe College will welcome pupils back tomorrow (Thursday) for the new term.

And Ashby School headmaster Geoff Staniforth says that the wearing of face masks will be mandatory for students and staff when not in the classroom.

Ashby de la Zouch Town Council plans to get 'best deal they can' for this year's Christmas lights - with a potential shortfall of £24,000 due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to consider.

The recent meeting of the council's Events and Entertainment committee agreed there must be lights of some description after a year which Covid-19 have forced so many cancellations in Ashby over the past few months.

The Ashby area is already feeling the effects of Storm Francis today and weather warnings have been issued for the East Midlands.

And a 'danger to life' alert forms part of the Met Office warning which predicts 'wild' weather.

Ashby Police responded to complaints from local residents about vehicles breaking the speed limit on Burton Road.

They set up a speed gun on the side of the road on Sunday afternoon and found a number of drivers doing well over 30mph.