Woman took number, guide dog named Dixie and woman weds doctor

TWO women employees of Edward Pinchess Ltd of Earl Shilton saw two men acting suspiciously in the grounds of the factory and took the number of a motor lorry.

As a result two men were before the magistrates court yesterday accused of jointly stealing two electric motors, value £35, from the firm on March 1.

One man was from Leicester the other from Glen Parva.

They both pleaded guilty.

The court heard that an employee of the firm had placed the motors outside the factory under some tarpaulin while they were waiting to be fitted. On March 1 he found them missing.

A detective constable visited the man from Leicester and asked him if he had taken the motors, he said that he thought they were scrap.

The officer then visited the second man.

At first he denied that he had taken the motors but the officer told him he had seen one of them broken up in the shed at his house.

The magistrates fined both men £10.

A guide dog named ‘Dixie’ Lord Lanesborough pushes over a huge pile of pennies, watched by Mr John Messenger, Landlord of the Dixie Arms at Market Bosworth.

The pile totalled £50. 16.5 which has been donated to the provision of guide dogs for the blind, a charity for which Mr and Mrs Harry Savage walk dogs at Bosworth.

Bosworth’s dog will be named “Dixie”.

A competition for the nearest guess was won by Mr T Gibbs of Bosworth who was only 1/5 away from the correct amount.

It is twelve months since this pile of pennies was started. Miss Diana Simmonds weds

Doctor St Catherine’s Church, Burbage, was filled with relatives and friends on Saturday for the wedding between Dr Michael John Mellor of Stapleton and Miss Diana Margaret Simmonds of Burbage.

Dr Mellor has been living in Barwell since joining his practice, and has recently moved to Stapleton where he and his wife will live.