Hinckley Info : News and Information

Actor Colin Wells, who has appeared in a string of popular TV shows, will be holding acting and technical workshops in Hinckley next month.

Colin, who has appeared in shows such as Casualty, Hotel Babylon, Hollyoaks and Mistresses, will be staging the workshops in the Atkins Building on Tuesday 10 August and Saturday 28 August from 10am to 5pm.

Hinckley's premier park has been recognised as one of the country’s best green spaces with the award of a prestigious Green Flag.

Green Flag Awards recognise and reward the best parks in the country and Hollycroft Park stood out after impressing the judges with its excellent use of green space, well-maintained facilities and high standard of safety and security.

Barwell Indoor Bowls Club has become the first club in the East Midlands to attain the prestigious ClubMark Accreditation, awarded by Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport, in recognition of the progress it has made with its youth development programme.

The club, which has close links with local community schools, in a bid to develop the next generation of bowlers, has also received £1,127 of Sports Unlimited grant funding to provide a 10 week coaching programme for young people aged 10 to 19-years-old.

Bestselling crime fiction writer Peter Robinson will be visiting Wigston Library in August to talk about his highly successful career and to sign copies of his latest gripping Inspector Banks novel, Bad Boy.

Bad Boy is the nineteenth book in Peter’s critically acclaimed series of crime novels about fictional Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, due to be played by Stephen Tompkinson in a forthcoming television adaptation on ITV.

Police have seized a Ford Transit van after checks revealed it was being driven with red diesel.

Red diesel has lower duty than normal diesel, and its use is limited to mainly agricultural vehicles.

Police who issued information regarding an incident in Hinckley have made a new appeal for the sightings of woman involved.

The previous appeal asked for information after a 20-year-old woman was forced into a black car near Balloonatics in Rugby Road in the early hours of Sunday morning (July 25).

Police are appealing for witnesses for an incident which occurred in Hinckley town centre in the early hours of Sunday morning (July 25).

A 20-year-old woman was forced into a black car near Balloonatics in Rugby Road at about 1.30am. She had her handbag stolen and received minor injuries.

New ways of funding older people’s care are being proposed by the County Council, to encourage more home operators to provide the best quality service.

The County Council’s ruling Cabinet is set to adopt a new quality assessment framework, which would reward the best care home operators and have financial consequences for those who don’t meet standards.

The results of a consultation exercise on home to school transport are to be presented to the County Council’s Cabinet.

The eight-week public consultation asked for views on the withdrawal of ‘historic exceptions’ to the existing Home to School Transport Policy.

Leicestershire County Council is losing at least £12.5 million from Government grant reductions this year, a report reveals.

More than half of this is coming from the Children and Young People’s and Environment and Transport departments.

Leicestershire County Council’s Cabinet will be asked to approve plans to improve the quality of education and the curriculum opportunities available to excluded pupils.

The proposal would see the provision for primary aged children in Leicestershire merged with that for 11-14 year olds.

A series of initiatives are being carried out by Leicestershire County Council in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint and cut costs.

The council, which looks after services such as schools, highways and social care, aims to cut its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2015.

A report to the County Council’s Cabinet shows there has been good progress in achieving the aims and objectives set out in the Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP).

The CYPP, which runs from 2008-2011, is reviewed annually.  It involves a range of agencies and services working together.

The wide-ranging plan covers how cycling, walking, public transport and roads will meet the needs of local residents and businesses over the next 15 years.

Currently in its early stages of development, the third Local Transport Plan (LTP3) will set out how a planned transport system will cut CO2, improve the environment, boost residents' health and support housing and economic growth.

Two local men, aged 24 and 42, have been charged with murder, following the death of Michael Grubb whose body was discovered in a flat in Barwell on Monday July 19, 2010.

Both men are due to appear at Hinckley Magistrates’ Court on Friday July 23, 2010.