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Darren and Jennifer looking at the camera. Darren is wearing a blue and white checked shirt under a dark grey jacket. Jennifer is wearing a red dress with orange, pink and navy patterns.

Private school facing closure is 'unique' to area

Parents of a child at a school facing closure say there is not another school like it near them.

Residents

Residents dig trenches around homes to beat floods

Despite a few "blue fingers", the residents say they were able to stave off "devastating" floods.

Exterior shot of Loughborough Amherst School

Private school cites VAT switch in closure plan

Loughborough Amherst School bosses say they plan to close at the end of the academic year.

Two men pour gravel into a wooden shelter on the roof with a view to Loughborough below

Nest box installed to give peregrine falcons home

It is hoped the new box at All Saints Church in Loughborough will encourage the birds to breed.

The head and shoulders of a woman sat in a temporary flat

'I'm not home a year after the Storm Henk floods'

Leicestershire residents said they were still impacted by Storm Henk's devastation.

Dawn Astle with her mother and widow Larraine Astle on the pitch at the Hawthornes Stadium before West Bromwich Albion's game against Peterborough United. She and her mother are wearing black coats and are waving to the crowd

Brain injury in football campaigner appointed MBE

Campaigner Dawn Astle and Olympian Lauren Henry are among those honoured for their achievements.

Zara Lachlan wearing a light blue coat with a neon yellow hood while on her boat in the middle of the ocean. She is smiling at the camera and a strand of her hair has come out from under her hood. It has fallen across her freckled face and is wet.

'I had a small cut... then a shark appeared'

Zara Lachlan, 21, hopes to become the first woman to row solo from Europe to South America.

A queue of traffic over three lanes of the motorway

Motorway reopens after van fire

Traffic is now running again on the northbound carriageway in Leicestershire.

A mother and daughter smiling in the congregation of Leicester Cathedral

'Singing is my therapy', says woman with dementia

A dementia-friendly carol service has taken place at Leicester Cathedral.