Do you know anyone who is driving without a valid license or driving unaccompanied on a provisional license?

If so the Roads Policing Unit at Leicestershire Police would like to hear from you.

We can be contacted via our confidential e-mail address at road.policing@leicestershire.pnn.police.uk all e-mails will be treated in the strictest confidence. More »

“Just a note to say how useful and enjoyable I found last-evening's event - dare I say it, "more of the same, please"!”

“I really enjoyed the event, full marks to all concerned. I came away feeling really inspired by the speakers and wishing that more could be achieved in our village. “

"We found the event really useful in reaching out to local parishes - thank you for allowing us to attend. We would be interested in our charity becoming a member of the RCC - could you please let me know how to go about this. " More »

The next meeting of Hinckley Family History Society will be on 1st April 2010.

Popular speaker Mick Rawle will be presenting a session on "Parish Registers and Non-conformist Registers". Mick is well-known in family history circles and this should be a very entertaining and informative evening.

Non-members are welcome. Refreshments are available.

As usual we are aiming for a 7.30pm start so please aim to arrive no later than 7.15pm.

The venue is St John's Church Centre on Coventry Road (near to Trinity Motors). On-site car parking is available. More »

AAA NORCAP are holding two services for those affected by adoption at St Lukes Church, Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, Leicester on the afternoon of Saturday 13th March - the day before Mother's Day. See attached for more information, and further enquiries, please contact Liz McGregor on 0116 2789324

Congratulations to Andrew Wright, Angela Wright, Keith Olivier, and Mark Twittey. They are the four lucky winners of our competition to win a VIP day at the Walkers Stadium.

Their prizes include:

• watching the Foxes play a home game against Coventry City on Sunday 21st March, 2010
• having a stadium tour of LCFC
• a pitch side photograph
• a meal with wine in the restaurant
• viewing the game from the Director’s box.

They all correctly told us that Andy King is the LCFC player that the Leicestershire Villages website sponsors.

A year after Google launched Street View for many parts of Britain, the service is finally going live in Leicestershire.

The internet giant has sent its camera cars along every public road in the county, collecting photos which it has turned into 360-degree pictures online. The images show homes, shops and takeaways, street signs, landmarks and football grounds.

What are your views on this, Neighbourhood Watch in Leicestershire would like to know? Use this link for the full story

This Saturday (13th march), there is a wonderful event being held at Hollycroft park Bowls pavilion building - to make MOTHERS DAY CRAFTS.

The event will run in two sessions 1.30-2.30 & 3-4, simply come along, pick something you would like to make from a range of activities including photo frames and Bird feeders .... amongst others....

The cost of JUST £2 per child, and there will be a range of crafts for children of all ages.

ALL ACTIVITIES ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR, PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. More »

Have you ever noticed anything in a public area or open space that captured your attention because you liked it or because it concerned you? Do you know how you can currently report your concerns, ideas, suggestions and opinions regarding public spaces? Or do you have suggestions how you would like to report such issues?

The VoiceYourview project is interested in finding out how people’s knowledge of public areas and open spaces can be captured in order to create safer and more inclusive spaces. Please fill out our questionnaire and voice your view! More »

Today our Burbage Scouting's Group Scout Leader, Harvey, visited the Scout group to perform a very special task. The task was to invest and go over the Scout promise and Law with new leaders Jo and Sophia from Monday Beavers and Ben from Tuesday Scouts.

The members of the Monday Beaver colony, formed a horseshoe shape, as the three leaders made their Scout promises to Harvey. Once the investiture was completed the Leaders were officlally given their Britannia Neckers, and World of Scouting badge to officially welcome them to Britannia Scouting. More »

In order to tackle local concerns we want to know what matters most to you in the area where you live or work/visit. You can help shape local priorities by completing this short questionnaire.

The information you provide will be collated and discussed by a Joint Action Group made up of Police and Partners from your area. The purpose of this group is to agree local priorities and take action to resolve them.

Use this link to fill in the survey.

Officers have issued a warning after receiving a number of reports of thefts from ATMs in Leicester.

Officers have so far received three reports of similar incidents that happened on Melton Road, Narborough Road and Belgrave Road in January and February this year.

In all three incidents the victims were approached by a man who told them that the ATM was out of order and the ATM then appeared to swallow their cards. Following this the victims went into the bank to see what had happened to find that money had already been taken out of their account and their card had been stolen.

Leicestershire Constabulary is backing Operation Liberal’s national public awareness campaign against distraction burglars called ‘Not Sure?…Don’t Open The Door.’

It has been sponsored by the Energy Retail Association (ERA) and aims to make people aware of the tactics used by distraction burglars and how they can prevent themselves from becoming potential victims.

Britannia Scouts broadcast on the radio

Four girls from Burbage’s Britannia Scout group, visited local radio station Oak Fm to spread the news about how good Britannia Scouting is.... The girls were joined by Scout Leader Ben & Group Scout Leader Harvey .

The team, were given a tour of the radio station by their staff. During the visit, the team joined in a live broadcast with DJ Jo and then took part in a recorded interview to be broadcast over the week. There were many subjects discussed, the 16% increase in members this year, an increase of girls within Burbage scouting, why scouting is fun, plus details of the upcoming gangshow were given out. Towards the end of the morning, our visitors were given presents from the radio station - and photos were taken to record the special occasion. More »

The Burbage carnival team, is settling nicely into its fortnightly routine of meeting, already a large number of floats that attended last years event have confirmed that they will be joining the fun at the event on 20th June. The team is pleased to announce that Margaret Little from the Sequoia gift shop on Windsor St, Burbage has been voted onto the committee. Margaret has a wealth of knowledge, is the chair of the Burbage traders association and is responsible for the running of the November late night Christmas shopping event in Burbage. More »

Amazing year of events planned at Hinckley's Hollycroft Park.

The programme of events at Hinckley's Hollycroft park during 2010, has been described as "the best in decades" following the successes of last years events.

Saturday 13th March (1.30-2.30pm & 3-4.00pm)
Mother’s Day crafts £2

Thursday 1st April (10.30pm-3pm)
Easter park orienteering £2

Sunday 2nd May (2.30pm-4.30pm)
Lutterworth Town band FREE

Sunday 16th May (2.30pm-4.30pm)
Jonny Eisenhower Blue’s band FREE More »

The recently appointed Archdeacon of Loughborough, the Venerable David Newman, was a guest of Leicestershire County Council earlier this week.
Following a welcome by Chief Executive, John Sinnott, the role and structure of the Authority was explained through a series of presentations, including, the Council's work around partnership delivery, faith communities and community cohesion.
Later in the day David was able to see at first hand a small selection of LRP supported projects. The afternoon began with lunch at the new tearoom in Twycross garden centre, which was supported through an LRP Vibrant Villages grant, the affordable housing scheme at Sheepy Magna (pictured). Finally, he was also shown the new community room at St Michael and All Angels Church in Fenny Drayton which was also supported through Vibrant Villages.

After a successful first year of delivery, LandSkills East Midlands, part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), is now looking for someone to manage the programme on a full time fixed term basis until January 2012.
Lantra, who manages LandSkills East Midlands on behalf of the East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA), is looking for an enthusiastic individual to join its regional team to work on the programme aimed at improving the competitiveness, efficiency and profitability of the region’s agriculture, horticulture and forestry industries through skills and knowledge transfer.
Working closely with EMDA’s rural team the individual who is offered this role will manage delivery of the RDPE skills funding in the region; facilitate workshops with livestock farmers; build relationships with training providers to maximise their output and be pro-active in highlighting and dealing with any potential for under performance; produce reports for EMDA.
To be successful in this home-based role you should be: More »

Anastacia and jeff Hordley from Emmerdale have joined, why not you?

We have 420 members in Leicestershire and Rutland. So if you want to find out more, or have been diagnosed with having either Colitis or Crohn`s and feel alone, with a sense of relief, you now know why you’ve been feeling so tired and unwell, if you have questions to ask, about your illness which could affect you for the rest of your life, that you want answering, we hope that you will find the information you are looking for within our website www.nacc.org.uk

In a second development in the waterways field; as part of its ‘Twenty Twenty Debate’, British Waterways is proposing that its 2,200 mile, 200 year old waterway network is moved out of direct state control and into a new third sector trust organisation.

The recently published report – ‘Setting a new course: Britain's waterways in the third sector’ – sets out some of the opportunities such a path would offer. British Waterways is encouraging partners, stakeholders and customers to get involved and share their opinions. Jo Gilbertson from the Inland Waterways Association (IWA), which is a member of The Heritage Alliance, said: “A change in status should enable British Waterways to develop its property income stream in a more effective manner, freeing it from some of the limitations on borrowing and investment that it is currently shackled with. This should allow it to focus more on active restoration and regeneration as well as generating more income. IWA therefore supports further investigation of this approach.” More »