Traffic Alert. Leicester Area Traffic Control

Emergency services are currently dealing with road traffic collision in Leicester tonight.

Soar Valley Way, Leicester is closed in the direction of Lutterworth Road due to an RTC.

Please be aware that traffic is building up in the area around

Detectives from our Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) are appealing for information following an incident in Anstey this afternoon (Saturday 20 April)

Police were called to Gynsill Lane just before 3.50pm following a report of a collision involving a black Volkswagen

A motorcyclist has been seriously injured.

Emergency services are currently dealing with a serious road traffic collision on Gynsill Lane between Glenfield and Anstey.

The road is closed, between the junctions of the A46 and the A50 until further notice.

The collision

Emergency services are currently dealing with a serious Road traffic collision on Gynsill Lane between Glenfield and Anstey.

The road is closed, between the junctions of the A46 and the A50 until further notice.

More to follow.

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It’s Saint George’s Day here in Leicester.

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Breaking News. Confirmed reports of a dragon in the City centre.

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Police statement

A spokesperson from Leicestershire police said:

“Police were called to a report of a man being taken ill.

He was taken to hospital by EMAS.”

Officers are appealing for help to locate a 15-year-old girl who has been reported missing.

Raya Dillon-Jackson was last seen in Croxton Kerrial on 31 March and was reported missing the following day (1 April).

Since she was reported missing, a number of enquiries have been

Emergency services are currently dealing with a incident at Mc Donald’s in the city centre on East Gates.

Mc Donald’s is closed with police officers inside.

East Midlands ambulance service have just taken somebody to hospital.

We have no further details at this time.

More to

Key CCTV footage has led to a convicted sex offender being jailed for more than seven years.

Cameras tracked Emil Emilov’s movements through Leicester city centre moments after he sexually assaulted a woman on the morning of Sunday 28 May last year.

The incident happened

A man who plied a teenage girl with alcohol at a New Year’s Eve house party and then raped her has been jailed.

Leigh Moore raped and sexually assaulted the 17-year-old while she attempted to sleep off the effects of the drink at the property in the Glen Parva area of

Police are investigating a road traffic collision which has left a pedestrian with serious injuries.

The incident was reported to us at around 7.25pm yesterday (Wednesday 17 April) in Stoke Road, Hinckley when a pedestrian was in collision with a grey Ford Mondeo which left the

A car has crash into house on Glenfield Road this afternoon, the impact of the collision moved a streetlight which is now been pushed into the roofline of the house and is only being supported by the car.

Damage to the house has been reported.

The car remains and City

Emergency services are currently dealing with a road traffic collision on Glenfield Road here in the city.

A car has crashed into a house after hitting a lamppost.

Glenfield Road at junction with Gimson Road and Sandhurst Road is closed by the police.

There is traffic

Following today’s sentence, the family of Gerald Wickes have paid tribute to him describing him as a “doting” dad, grandad and great-grandad who was “one of life’s helpers”.

Garry Wickes, the son of Gerald Wickes, said:

“I am so very proud to say that Ged Wickes was my dad.

A teenager who walked into a house and fatally stabbed a 79-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 25 years.

Daniel Rounce, 18, had initially fled the scene after stabbing Gerald Wickes at a house in Queens Park Way, Leicester, on the afternoon of

Police have released an image of a man they wish to speak to after two women reported being touched inappropriately while on a night out in Leicester.

The incident is believed to have happened in the early hours of Sunday q29 October last year.

The two women – both aged 22 –