Hinckley Info : News and Information

XPLORER is a fun family challenge taking place in Hinckley & Bosworth this summer, aimed at young children and their families.

Residents in Hinckley and Bosworth are reminded that recycling, refuse and garden waste collections will take place as usual on Whitsun bank holiday Monday (27 May 2013).

Buddingh entrepreneurs who have got a business idea and just need a platform to sell it from are being encouraged to try a stall on Hinckley Market for a special discounted rate as part of this year's Love Your Local Market Week.

'Forty' has countless meanings - a ruby wedding anniversary, the age life supposedly begins at - but for vulnerable children, it's the number of new foster carers needed to transform lives.

Funding is available for Leicestershire communities keen to boost green spaces for people and wildlife. Up to £2,500 is available towards schemes to help improve parks, nature reserves and other green areas.

Around £2m is being invested into making improvements to boost safety and ease congestion at the Fosse Park / Asda roundabout.

Olympic gold medallist Dani King is backing a campaign to encourage more people to get cycling in Leicestershire.

PC 551 Mike Francis-Lang will be holding a beat surgery at the Millennium Hall, Britannia Road, Burbage on Saturday 1st June between 10am and 2pm.

Officers from Hinckley local policing unit are appealing for witnesses after a couple were involved in a domestic incident.

Local areas are being urged to work with the judiciary to set up the courts as part of proposals to reduce delays and focus more on serious and contested cases. This forms part of the Government's vision for a more efficient and effective criminal justice system that meet the needs of victims, witnesses and communities.

Tax credits claimants are being warned about scam or "phishing" emails sent out by fraudsters in the run-up to the renewal deadline.

In the last four years we have boosted our targeted checks on tax credit claims 10 times over, more than doubling the money protected, saving £390 million in three key risk areas alone.

With the bank holiday approaching, campers are reminded never to take barbeques inside their tents because of the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

A report published this week by the Federation of Small Businesses, Cyber security and fraud: the impact on small businesses attributed the cost of cyber fraud to small businesses as around £785 million a year.

Public Health England has published the Heatwave Plan for 2013 to raise organisational, public and professional awareness of the potential dangers to health from severe hot weather.

Officers are returning to a house in Hinckley as part of an ongoing investigation. Hayley Pointon (30) a mother of two from the Coventry area, died following an incident at an address in Sunnydale Road at around 10.45pm on Sunday February 3. A post mortem examination confirmed she died from a single gun shot wound.

A series of training workshops will be held in Hinckley this summer for those interested in giving triathlons a try.

Do you enjoy walking? Are you creative? If the answer is yes then why not come along to Hinckley library on Tuesday 21st May and take part in a range of free activities for our Wellbeing Morning.

Come along to Hinckley library's series of monthly lunchtime talks: ‘Listen While You Lunch'. The talks fall every third Thursday of the month from 12noon until 1pm and tickets very often sell out fast.

The Government's plans to significantly improve mobile coverage across the UK moved a step closer today, with the announcement that communication infrastructure and media services company Arqiva has been appointed to deliver the £150m Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP).