• Leicestershire MPs 'may have wages cut'

  By Rajjan

  I think MP salary should be about 40k. Councillors about 20k . Sir PS about 32k.

            

   

  By Derby Telegraph at 07:35 on 17/05/12

  

  An MP has said all members of parliament should prepare for a possible pay cut as their salaries are reviewed. Liz Kendall was among MPs to speak out after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), which was set up to review MPs' pay following the expenses scandal four years ago, began asking the public their views. Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of IPSA, wants people's comments on MPs' pay, which is frozen at...

• 'Teaching pupils to swim is important lesson for life'

  By Bob491

  My local primary school only provides a handful of lessons in the children's fifth and sixth years...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 19/05/12

  

  School leaders in the county have stressed that swimming lessons are an important "life lesson" for young children. Their comments come as a new report out this week said not enough children in primary schools were able to swim one length of a 25m pool unaided – a national curriculum guideline. The report by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) and Kellogg's called for it to be made a priority in school sports...

• Rotary volunteers reduce risk of heart attacks

  By melton_mark

  Well done to everyone involved in this excellent initiative in Oadby.

            

   

  By jim.matthews1@ntlworld.com at 18:33 on 29/04/12

  

  Seventy-four shoppers at Sainsbury's in Oadby on Saturday had their blood pressure checked as part of a Rotary Club of Oadby project. Eight were advised to see their General Medical Practitioner within a week and another 19 were advised to see their GP within the next month. Twenty-seven had had a family history of high blood pressure or stroke. The Rotary club has run the project in conjunction with the Stroke Association every year...

• Mum shops her robbing son to cops

  By DonHenson

  Good article. Shame the LM is using Sun headlines.

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 01/05/12

  

  A teenage street robber was taken to the police station by his mum after she saw his picture in the Leicester Mercury. Conar Douglas (18) of Southfields Avenue, Oadby, took part in a robbery in May last year with a friend in the Lee Circle car park in Leicester. The other robber grabbed the victim in a headlock while Douglas emptied his pockets. They stole a phone and a wallet but the victim offered to get £40 out of a cash...

• Shocking site for visitors to town

  By Graham_LE8

  What's with the new format of letter publishing in the last couple of days? Several times there...

            

   

  By Leicester Mercury at 07:30 on 01/05/12

  

  Beirut, Detroit, Chicago? No, actually Loughborough. I could not believe this site that I witnessed driving through Loughborough recently. I just had to return the next day armed with my camera. I fully concur with Mr Partridge of Anstey whose photograph of Frog Island, in Leicester, was printed in the Mercury last month ("An area of the city that is truly dreadful", Mailbox, March 6). What visitors must think of our...

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