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Community leaders are backing calls for a concerted effort to drive down coronavirus rates across Leicestershire.

A new purpose-built £8m mental health facility for young people in Leicestershire has this week welcomed its first inpatients.

The Christmas Lights are on in Loughborough. If lockdown prevents you from seeing them, here's how they look.

Senior council, health and police figures across Leicestershire have made an unprecedented commitment to work together to drive down infection rates in the final days of the second coronavirus lockdown.

Businesses in Charnwood are being encouraged to apply for the latest round of Covid-19 grants being distributed by Charnwood Borough Council.

Detectives investigating a burglary in Shepshed are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

Charnwood Borough Council has confirmed it's in negotiations with the NHS about using its offices in Southfield Road, Loughborough as a potential Covid-19 vaccination centre.

Twycross Zoo's youngest of eight critically endangered Black-Headed Spider monkeys, Ernie, has celebrated his first birthday.

Businesses in North West Leicestershire can now apply for a grant of up to £3,000 through the Local Restrictions Support Grant Fund.

Officers from the force’s Tactical Roads Policing Team are appealing for anyone who witnessed an incident in Birstall to come forward.

Charnwood Museum has been awarded two recovery grants to develop its education programme and improve communication with visitors.

Retired professional boxer, Andy Pirie, has lent his weight to the campaign to save Birstall Boxing Gym.

London and Liverpool will be placed in Tier 2 of England's new system of COVID-19 restrictions, but Birmingham and Manchester will be in Tier 3.

The government will announce today which areas of England are in which tier as part of a tougher system.

The whole of Kent has been placed in Tier 3 under the new system, despite a last ditch attempt by MPs to divide it as some areas have low rates of COVID-19.

A pregnant woman has suffered a miscarriage after being kicked in the stomach by a robber at a bus stop.

Premier League clubs in Liverpool and London will be able to welcome some supporters back into their stadiums after the Government announced which tiers different areas of the country will be in after the end of the second lockdown.

Napoli are considering renaming their stadium in memory of Diego Maradona after the club legend died aged 60.

Gordon Taylor will resign from his position as chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) at the end of the season.

Fly-half George Ford has been brought back into the starting XV for England's Autumn Nations Cup vs Wales, with skipper Owen Farrell shifting to 12 and the pack unchanged. 

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to replace Johnny Depp as the evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts film, Warner Bros has announced.

A judge has refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal a court's ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard.

US fashion model Halima Aden - who has fronted campaigns for the likes of Rihanna's Fenty Beauty and Kanye West's Yeezy - is quitting runway shows, saying the industry has forced her to compromise her religion.

Argentina World Cup winner Diego Maradona has died aged 60.