The Kirby Muxloe village website

On 22nd and 23rd October respectively, the Leicestershire Constabulary and the Leicester Mercury issued news of the arrest of two people in connection to the burglary of a store on Main Street on the 15th. The robbery that took place In the early hours involved the theft of two containers of cigarettes. [...]

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Back in 1990 there was no Junction 21a and to get to Glenfield was under this bridge and along what a fairly narrow lane. But after 21a was opened there was no traffic through the bridge and some travellers moved in. They were there for some time. Walking a dog through there became difficult if [...]

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Just days into 2009 and the burglaries are off to a fine start.
Only two days ago my neighbour was burgled around tea time, hardly even dark. One problem is that alarms go off so regularly that little attention is paid to them, why is that? Would’nt we like to think that if it were our [...]

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The Leiceatershire Constabulary online show statistics of recorded and detected crimes in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. They are divided into eleven catergories and present the previous month and year to date compared to the same period last year.
The statistics for Kirby Muxloe are:-
Recorded offences – incidents reported to the police as a crime defined within [...]

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This one just made me laugh, out loud and a lot…..
In broad daylight whilst i was out, and only briefly, somebody must have parked close to the house, come down the drive and stole, took or borrowed a broken microwave oven. Not just minimally i want a new one type of broken………..the d**n thing blew [...]

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Back in March i posted about “probationers” knocking on your door to sell goods, it seems they are back.
Personally i do not have a problem with them but i understand that the elderly or vulnerable might. This is merely informative for those of you who read this site from Kirby, that they are nothing to [...]

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We can occasionally hear a helicopter passing over in search of some vehicle or other that may have come off the motorway driven by some joyrider, but this evening it was over Kirby with search light glaring as one gang of youths set about fighting with another.
Well, we shall have to await the mercury no [...]

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I heard this week from a resident in Kirby that, a young man was held at knife point outside of the local shops on Main Street to surrender his cards and money. Is this true? has anyone else heard of this crime being committed? if you were a witness or even the victim let us [...]

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Last night my husband notified the police when two men were acting suspiciously outside the house. One man was observed looking down our drive from the road, he approached the front door and looked in, he then walked down the drive just looking around around and we waited for him to knock. He didn’t [...]

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Two people were arrested and later released on bail pending further inquiries in connection with a robbery in Kirby Muxloe. The incident took place at the Main Street branch of the Alliance & Leicester on Wednesday between midday and 1pm. A report in the Leicester Mercury stated that residents reacted with shock, “something like that [...]

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