News in Ashby

North West Leicestershire District Council says that garden waste and cardboard will each continue to be collected monthly.

The measures were brought in during lockdown with collections suspended initially due to staffing issues.

Cardboard waste collections in Ashby are coming back!

North West Leicestershire District Council announced on Thursday morning that cardboard recycling collections will resume on a monthly basis from June 23.

Ashby de la Zouch Town Council believes it would be 'problematic at best' to hold the Ashby Statutes if the event went ahead in Market Street this year.

The historical fair, which is staged in September each year, looks unlikely to go ahead in its recognised form next month - although the final decision rests with North West Leicestershire District Council who run the event.

A controlled explosion took place in playing fields behind Ashby School in Range Road on Sunday evening.

Early reports suggested a device had been destroyed.

Police raided an address in Moira this morning (Thursday) after executing a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Officers forced an entry at the property in Cherry Tree Court.

Families with children returning to school in the Ashby and Measham area this Autumn can access new online information and support.

Schools across the county will open their doors to all pupils within the next few weeks after being closed to most since tighter lockdown measures were introduced in March.

A man was arrested in Appleby Magna this morning after a police raid in which drugs and cash were found.

The 51-year-old was arrested at a Measham Road address on suspicion of acquiring/using/possessing criminal property.

More than £90,000 worth of latex gloves were stolen from an HGV parked in a layby just outside Ashby.

Thieves slashed the sides of the trailer and took 13 pallets containing more than 1,000 boxes of the gloves.

Moira Furnace and Country Park officials were removing a nest of wasps that has caused injuries to several people in the area.

The towpath was closed from the footbridge to the lime kilns this morning (Wednesday) while it was moved.

Ashby de la Zouch Town Council says a number of their planned events scheduled for the remainder of the year face being cancelled - or have been called off already.

This includes Jim's 10th Anniversary Tractor Run, which had been re-arranged for next month and will not now go ahead, and Ashby Christmas Fair, scheduled for December 5 and 6 - which also has a knock-on effect for the Carols Around The Christmas Tree event, due to take place on December 24, and the Santa Fun Run, on December 6.