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  • Oct 25, 2024 | conservativehome.com | Rupert Matthews

    Rupert Matthews is the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and RutlandSo the Starmer-Swift Scandal staggers to its predictably unsatisfactory conclusion. Nothing much has been achieved, except to further besmirch the already rather tawdry reputation of the incoming Labour government. Taylor Swift was provided with a blue-light escort by the Metropolitan Police when, strictly speaking, she did not qualify for one.

  • Aug 7, 2024 | conservativehome.com | Rupert Matthews

    Rupert Matthews is the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and RutlandThe violent unrest we have seen in towns and cities across the UK over the past week has been horrifying. In Leicester city centre we saw a stand-off between rival groups of protesters by our historic clock tower.  I pay tribute to police officers and staff involved in the proactive operation to de-escalate the situation.

  • Jul 18, 2024 | conservativehome.com | Rupert Matthews

    Rupert Matthews is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland. If you wanted to know what the future holds for the police in a Labour Britain, you needed only to attend the national general meeting of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, held in London last Thursday. Yvette Cooper, our new Home Secretary, put in an appearance but so did the new cohort of Labour PCCs, including their unelected counterparts who hold PCC powers under Labour Mayors.

  • Jul 3, 2024 | leicestertimes.com | Rupert Matthews

    Five new printed maps and trails have been launched to help adventurous foodies find the best food and drink places in Leicestershire’s districts. The new ‘Taste The Place Taste Adventure’ maps provide visitors and residents with handy guides to explore the diverse Leicestershire food and drink offering by trying out some of the best cafes, restaurants, farm shops and producers that Leicestershire has to offer.

  • Jun 25, 2024 | leicestertimes.com | Rupert Matthews

    Construction work is set to begin on the latest phase of homes at Broadnook, Leicestershire’s first garden village. Charnwood Borough Council has granted planning permission for 242 Bovis Homes properties to be built on a parcel of land within the wider neighbourhood, which is located to the south of Rothley. Bovis Homes is the third housebuilding brand – after Davidsons Homes and Cora – to join the project, which will deliver 1,950 homes on land west of the A6 and north of the A46.

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