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Nicholas Corah

Former Leicestershire textile boss is killed in car crash

Thursday, September 02, 2010

A leading business figure who helped raise tens of millions of pounds for charity has been killed in a car crash. Nicholas Corah, 78, died yesterday...

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Woman set herself on fire after her arranged marriage broke down

Thursday, September 02, 2010

A woman died after setting herself on fire because she did not want to bring shame on her family when her arranged marriage broke down, an inquest...

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Town Hall, Leicester

Horses trample across graves and eat floral tributes at Leicestershire cemetery

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Families who arrived at a cemetery to pay their respects to loved ones found horses had apparently been let loose, trampled across graves and eaten...

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Horses seen grazing in Groby cemetery

Footballer given suspended sentence after nightclub brawl

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Ex-Leicester City footballer Joe Mattock has avoided custody after he floored four people in a violent nightclub brawl, a court heard. The £40,00...

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Footballer given suspended sentence after nightclub brawl

Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan to release single in memory of Harley

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan and his friends from band SuperEvolver are releasing a charity single to raise funds in memory of a little boy who died...

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SuperEvolver

Crash victim badly injured after accident on A5

Thursday, September 02, 2010

One person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a car crash, near Burbage. Two cars were involved in the collision at about 6am...

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Stone-throwing yobs pelt Leicestershire fire crews on 999 call-out

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Firefighters were pelted with stones and had their hose turned on them while on an emergency call. The crews were ambushed by about 15 youths when...

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Roger Dunton, county secretary of Retained Firefighters Union, where firefighters where attacked and injured

Lord Mayor of Leicester joins online petition supporting the Fosse Boys

Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Lord Mayor of Leicester has joined nearly 400 people in signing an online petition supporting the Fosse Boys Councillor Colin Hall is backing the...

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Lord Mayor Colin Hall at the Walkers Stadium yesterday

Memorial in Leicester's Town Hall Square attacked by vandals

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Vandals daubed racist graffiti on a war memorial in the latest of a series of incidents of anti-social behaviour involving the statue. The city...

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Memorial

Tony Blair invited Leicester MP Hewitt to talks 'to annoy deputy'

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Tony Blair used to invite former Leicester MP Patricia Hewitt to talk in cabinet meetings just to irritate his Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott....

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Patricia Hewitt
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