It seems businesses on Braunstone Gate are becoming very worried about the effect the new Tesco is having on their trade. and it's not even half finished yet.

It?s not all gloom, Hinckley Road Policing Unit have a new boss, it looks like local girl Bethany Mickleburgh might have found a bone marrow match and we look at some traditional Chinese customs since it's now the Year of the Dragon!

Our regular scribes are back; Roger Blackmore looks at the life and times of Mary Linwood, our Garden Guru, Tony Huxley, has one or two New Year resolutions which he'll never keep, Richard Perry has the info on who built an iPad for £82 and some techy news, finally, Helen Knott agonises over the best local school to send her son.

We also have the frighteningly fit  Loretta Curtis joining us with some ways of losing that post festive tum.

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