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Yacht broker Robert Moran has been sentenced to two months in prison on tax fraud charges, making him the third former UBS client to be sentenced to prison in South Florida in the past two weeks.

SOUNDS of the 1970s and 80s will help to raise money for the Adam'Smile campaign in Harborough next month.

OWEN Clark, at just four, asked the most poignant question as people gathered in Derby to mark Remembrance Sunday: "why did daddy's friend die?" His words showed how relevant the annual service was, not only for the generations who remember those killed in both world wars but also younger people because of the growing toll of killed and wounded in ...

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Local Government Monday 9th November 2009 - 1:43pm Leicester City Council workers return to work after office blaze Leicester City Council workers have returned to a blackened office block after a fire broke out.

Burglary gang sentenced to 78 years a ' four Harborough area shops among the 21 raids.

An MP has said the Government should consider stripping a defence firm of its contract to train the armed forces.

A Leicester man is starting a three-year jail term after admitted two serious assaults, police said.

He is the hard-working police pooch who has been sniffing out criminals for seven years.

A STOLEN dog has been reunited with her owners after being found 80 miles away from their Oxford home.

English club champion Leicester stunned Rugby World Cup holder South Africa 22-17 at Welford Road on Friday.

A convicted criminal from Leicestershire who used money from his exploits to go to see a Ricky Hatton fight in Las Vegas was caught out and put on a plane back to England.

Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Local Government Friday 6th November 2009 - 12:56pm ASBO for boy whose family accused of abusing suicide woman A boy whose family was accused of abusing a woman who went on to kill herself and her disabled daughter has been given an Asbo, a council confirmed today.

Tears of gratitude well up in Kerstin Tolley's eyes every time she thinks of the person who helped to save her little girl's life.

A TEENAGER from Harborough has firmly denied tabloid tittle tattle that he had a secret fling with television's X Factor finalist Lucie Jones.

A pedestrian has been killed by a bin lorry in Leicestershire. Jeremy Bulloch, 42, of no fixed address, suffered serious injuries in the incident on the B582 Desford Road in Lubbesthorpe on Monday morning.

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A MAN facing jail after being caught with more than 10,000 pornographic images of children on his computer is thought to have committed suicide hours before he was due to be sentenced, a court heard.

A NUMBER of big bonfire and firework events are due to take place in the area this week .

A former publican who was facing jail after admitting he had more than 10,400 indecent images of children has died after being hit by a refuse lorry.

EAST Midlands Airport has been granted permission to extend its runway - but only if it accepts night-time noise restrictions.