News in Ashby

Fiver Fest is returning to Ashby this June.

How it works is that independent businesses provide special offers for £5 to encourage people to use their high street and to say thank you to the public for their support.

One of Ashby's newest shop owners has described the moment that allowed him to make a real go of his business.

Keith Tiplady is bringing Indulgent Chocolates to Ashby next month when he opens a shop in Bath Street Ashby chocolate shop to open next month.

A seven-year-old girl from Ashby-de-la-Zouch has collected more than 600 Easter Eggs to thank hospital staff for their work during the pandemic.

Clarissa Green decided that she wanted to do something to thank staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for saving her grandmother's life a few years ago.

Ashby Lido is to be given a relaunch this Spring.

Work has been carried out on the popular Ashby swimming pool - the only Lido in Leicestershire - since the turn of the year.

Conkers is staging The RETRO Rock Show in July.

The Waterside venue in Moira is slowly bringing events back to its calendar and The RETRO Rock Show is a live two-hour extravaganza of the greatest rock songs and power ballads of the 70's 80's and 90's!

Ashby's Proms in the Park event is taking shape - with a line-up and ticket details announced for the Bath Grounds event to be held in August.

Headlining will be the Ashby Big Band, for the show which is scheduled for August 28, 5-10pm.

More coronavirus restrictions will be lifted on Monday as part of the Government's roadmap out of lockdown.

Here's a guide to what will be changing as measures slowly begin to ease.

Alexanders Estate Agents is having a move of its own as they prepare to leave their current address for new premises in Market Street.

Currently based on The Green, Alexanders is taking over the unit that was occupied by Time Consortium jewellers and has announced the move with signage in the front window.

The Government's vaccination programme continues apace, and we have had the recent welcome news that over 50 per cent of adults have now been vaccinated.

Most of the vaccinations in North West Leicestershire have taken place at the extremely efficient vaccination centre which had delivered up to 500 jabs a day, and I am pleased that I am booked in to have my jab imminently.

Schoolchildren in Ashby now have more time to take part in the Raring2go! Letterwriting Competition, as the deadline has been extended until May 4.

The competition invites children in the local area to write about their lives during lockdown, in the hope of brightening the days of local care home residents.