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1 month ago | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard |Mathilde Grandjean PA
Two RAF engineers have admitted breaking in half a newly-installed Paddington Bear statue and ripping it off the bench where it was displayed, before stealing it. William Lawrence, 22, of John Street, Enderby, and Daniel Heath, 22, of Oakhall Park, Thornton, West Yorkshire, both admitted an offence of criminal damage. The statue, in Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berkshire, was damaged before being stolen shortly after 2am on Sunday, March 2, Reading Magistrates' Court heard.
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1 month ago | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Christopher Bucktin |Linda Steelyard
Leicester R&B star Mark Morrison has been arrested in Florida on charges of assault. The 52-year-old, who is best known for his 1996 hit Return of the Mack, was taken into custody on Saturday after an alleged altercation at Le Bar à Vin in Palm Beach. According to a police report obtained by US website TMZ, Mr Morrison was in the bar when he began shouting loudly and swearing at the venue's manager, Nicola Lavacca.
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1 month ago | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard
We’ve taken the unusual step of clearing the Leicester Mercury's front page today to draw your attention to an issue that could be disastrous not just for local newspapers like the Mercury, and its website LeicestershireLive, but the UK’s entire creative sector.
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2 months ago | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard
EastEnders star Scott Maslen has said the “stakes are high” for the soap’s “nerve-wracking” live episode. Airing as part of the show’s 40th anniversary celebrations, the episode will grant the audience the power to decide the outcome of a storyline involving Maslen’s character, Jack Branning. Viewers will choose whether Diane Parish’s character, Denise Fox, reunites with her estranged husband Branning or her secret lover, Ravi Gulati, played by Aaron Thiara.
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2 months ago | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard
Nobody rocks a red polo neck, stone slacks, biscuit slip-ons and a thigh-length, brown leather (pleather?) jacket in 2025 like John Shuttleworth. The appearance of that garb on stage at Leicester's De Montfort Hall last night opened a portal to a warm, safe, welcome place where the only jars are unheralded snips of Bossa Nova and the near-silent huffs of three climactic party poppers.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Sophie Robinson |Linda Steelyard
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard |Ciaran Fagan
A Sycamore Gap sapling is to be planted and nurtured in Leicestershire. The University of Leicester will receive one of 49 'Trees of Hope' saplings from the National Trust. The saplings have been grown from seeds of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree that was felled in September last year. Each of the 49 saplings represents 1ft in height that the tree had reached at the time of its felling. The Sycamore Gap is situated along Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard
The BBC’s expansion into online local news is causing direct harm to the commercial local news sector, its watchdog has admitted. After previously insisting there was no evidence that the corporation's huge expansion of its local news coverage would do any harm to other publishers - a position it had largely used the BBC's own data to justify - Ofcom has concluded that the corporation's strategy has become "part of the headwinds" harming other news brands.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard |Naomi Clarke
Four senior female BBC journalists, including Leicestershire's Martine Croxall, have filed an appeal after an employment tribunal ruled they could not take legal action against the corporation on grounds of equal pay. Ms Croxall, from Stoke Golding, near Hinckley, launched an employment tribunal against the BBC alongside Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh. The four had claimed to have not been paid equally compared with their male counterparts.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
leicestermercury.co.uk | Linda Steelyard |Naomi Clarke
Four senior female BBC journalists, including Leicestershire's Martine Croxall, have filed an appeal after an employment tribunal ruled they could not take legal action against the corporation on grounds of equal pay. Ms Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh launched an employment tribunal against the BBC, which included the claim they had not been paid equally compared with their male counterparts.
