Garden Waste Bin subscription ends 31st May 2025 Do you need a garden waste bin?
Garden Waste Bin subscriptions ends 31st May 2025
Do you need a garden waste bin?
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council will issue you with a brown wheelie bin and empty it every fortnight (apart from a two-week period over Christmas)
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The year-round service is easy to join and costs £47.50 a year
Car fire at Loughborough multi-storey car park
Police are investigating after a car fire at a multi-storey car park in Loughborough damaged several vehicles.
A petition with more than 40,000-signatures has been delivered to Downing Street
Leicestershire MPs and Conservative council leaders have delivered a petition signed by more than 40,000 local residents opposing plans for local government reorganisation and the proposed expansion of Leicester City.
Changes to Fosse Park approved
Changes to Fosse Park have been approved to create additional new units – despite some controversy.
Extra police patrols coming to market towns
Hinckley and Loughborough are set to benefit from extra police patrols before Christmas, with a focus on tackling shoplifting and anti-social behaviour.
Woman in her 70s loses thousands in courier fraud scam
Leicestershire Police are appealing for help to identify a man they want to speak to following a courier fraud targeting a woman in her 70s.
Leicestershire parents vote to keep October half term
Parents have voted to keep the school summer holidays in Leicestershire largely the same, with an early summer holiday and a one-week October half term.
Should the school summer holidays in Leicestershire change?
Parents are being asked whether we should have a shorter summer holiday to allow for a two-week half term in October.
Meet Charnwood's new Mayor
The new Mayor of Charnwood has been sworn in for 2026-27 following the Council’s Annual Meeting on Monday, 11 May.
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