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"A radical redesign for a new era". That's how a scaled-down police force for Leicestershire is being described by those in charge. Frontline jobs are under threat, buildings could close, officers may have to stop turning up to some crimes as Chief Constable Simon Cole and his team struggle to cut their spending by up to 拢28 million by 2020. That's on top of the 拢36 million our police force has already had to save since 2010. It means tough choices ahead for our police as they face what they're describing as "unprecedented financial challenges". But we're be reassured that public safety will not suffer. So how is that going to be possible when so much else seems to be at risk?
Also, today a two minute silence will be observed across the country at 11am to commemorate the dead of two World Wars, and all later conflicts. It starts at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the time in 1918 when the guns finally fell silent along the western front, and an armistice was declared. But new figures from The Royal British Legion suggests that two thirds of eighteen to twenty-five year olds don't know when Armistice Day is. Only half will observe today's two minute silence on the Day and nearly a third are likely to browse the internet during the silence.
And, street art or just plain vandalism?! A row of cartoon lego men are splitting opinion in Loughborough! The businessman who commissioned them says the spray-painted characters on Leopold Street are a bit of harmless fun, but they've got him into trouble with the local council. Rafaelle Russo has been ordered to take the 5 characters down, or formally apply for consent because they could be considered an advert. But Mr Russo, who runs a restaurant and a student lettings agency in Loughborough, has persistently refused to do so. He now faces prosecution and even his other pieces of work- the large image of Edward Scissorhands and the scene from the London underground - being removed. But whilst the Council clamps down, most people in Loughborough don't see much wrong with it.