News in Ashby

Symphony Learning Trust has been selected to run the new primary school being built on the Holywell Spring Farm development in Ashby-De-La-Zouch.

The school will be opening in the Autumn Term 2021 and its name will be Ashby Hastings Primary School, named after the Hastings family who built Ashby Castle in the 15th century.

A car fire caused traffic to be stopped on the A42 near Ashby this morning.

The incident was on the northbound carriageway between Junction 13 and 14.

A car has collided with the front of a house in Wood Street in icy conditions on Ashby's roads this morning (Monday).

Police say the driver was injured and the house evacuated for safety reasons.

Police discovered a 'large amount' of drugs and cash' as a result of a routine traffic stop in Measham on Saturday night.

North West Leicestershire Police have posted photographs of the find and say the suspect has been questioned about the haul.

Heavy snow hit the Ashby area this morning - and there are warnings of icy conditions tomorrow (Monday).

Snow began falling at around 11am - as our video above shows - and BBC weather says there will be 'heavy snow and a gentle breeze'.

An 80-year-old Ashby woman was deliberately coughed into her face by a teenage girl as her friend laughed about it.

The incident happened in Hood Park at a time when the country is in full lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Ashby Churches are holding a prayer meeting on Zoom this afternoon (Sunday).

There are three guest speakers representing Local Government, Education and Ashby Foodbank and following each one to two minute introduction there will be seven minutes in small groups of four screens to pray.

Ashby rail campaigners say they are encouraged by the Government's intention to re-open two lines that have been closed since the 1960s.

They will be restored with £794million of new funding, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced.

Ashby company Journeo PLC on Friday said it has received purchase orders worth £1.3million for the supply of its public transport information systems.

The Charterpoint Way-based transport information systems and technical services provider said the purchase orders are part of the second tranche of the Transforming Cities Fund announced in December 2019, and include the supply of Journeo's double-sided thin-film transistor display systems, reports Morning Star

Another 51 coronavirus infections were reported on Saturday in North West Leicestershire - bringing the seven day total for the area to 390.

It now means North West Leicestershire's seven day infection rate - up to Friday evening - is 365.4 cases per 100,000 people, down on Friday's figure.