News in Coalville

Plans for a new micro pub in Coalville have been given the go-ahead by North West Leicestershire District Council.

An application was made last year for a change of use from a shop to a bar-and-cafe - called The Rock - in Meadow Lane.

Local Police and North West Leicestershire District Council are clamping down on supermarket customers who are not wearing masks.

Morrisons in Coalville was among the stores to get a visit following complaint from customers.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in Ellistown - leaving him hospitalised with serious facial injuries.

The incident happened at around 5am on Friday (January 29) when the man, 27, was walking in Penny Wakefield Community Woodland, off Beveridge Lane.

Coalville MP Andrew Bridgen has welcomed the Government's plans to make it even easier for employer of all sizes to join its flagship £2billion Kickstart Scheme, which has already created more than 120,000 jobs across the UK.

The scheme is designed to give young people at risk of long-term unemployment a future of hope and opportunity, by creating high-quality, government-subsidised jobs across the UK, supporting them into work as it delivers on its commitment to level up the entire country.

North West Leicestershire Police have alerted motorists to a spate of catalytic converter thefts in the Coalville and Ashby area.

This is a problem that was spotted in the North Warwickshire area recently and appears to have headed up the A42.

Coalville's Apollo Business Park is 'thriving' according to Leicestershire County Council.

And it is part of what the authority describes as 'a programme of 'wise investment' which continues to help the local economy and the County Council to maintain and protect its services, despite what it says is 'insufficient Government funding'.

Six of North West Leicestershire District Council's recycling lorries have been named as part of a competition run with local primary schools.

And a pupil from Ibstock Junior School was among the winners.

Coronavirus cases have shown another decrease over the past seven days.

Where the region once had an infection rate, per 100,000 of the population, of just over 400,000, the figure now stands at 245.1, with 254 new cases in the past week.

North West Leicestershire councillor Nick Rushton has explained the County Council's five per cent council tax hike, saying: "We were left with no alternative".

Leicestershire County Council officials say the rise is designed to help the authority 'weather the Covid crisis'.

Leicestershire Police have issued a renewed appeal for information after a police car was damaged in Ibstock last week.

We reported that someone had apparently jumped on to the bonnet of the vehicle on Thursday, leaving it dented and having to be taken off the road.