News from North West Leicestershire
Groundworks are under way at Midas 22 on the former site of Nailstone Colliery, in north west Leicestershire. Developers have planning permission for three warehouses on the site, which sits a couple of miles south of the vast Interlink logistics park ...
Amazon has just announced a huge recruitment drive for its brand new one million sq ft warehouse in Ellistown near Coalville, with 500 jobs up for grabs. Although the warehouse is not due to open until the autumn, Amazon has already begun recruiting ...
The Ashby Road site, which lies near to the M1 and the A453, was originally given outline planning permission by North West Leicestershire District Council for up to 110 dwellings in 2013. Then last June, Persimmon Homes North Midlands applied for full ...
A spokesman for Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said that when they arrived the ground and first floors were both on fire. Fire fighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the fire for around an hour and a half using ladders to gain access the ...
PICTURED, from left, are Councillor John Bridges (chairman of North West Leicestershire District Council), Stella Brierley, Jean Broster, Margaret Hebb and Nigel Jones (all former residents of Moira Furnace), and Steve Scotney (chairman of Moira ...
When I venture out of the city, I'm a south Leicestershire kind of girl, with occasional jaunts up the A607 to visit friends. The North West was largely uncharted territory for me. "Bradgut land", as my dad would call it. And, as it turns out, a pretty ...
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