My mum lives a couple of villages away from here. By all accounts it's not too bad. I drive through a couple of times a week during morning rush hour and compared to getting out of leicester before 8 am it's a breeze to drive through.
The village itself is fairly well self contained as far as local shops are concerned (it has a reasonably sized co-op, if that's your thing, the chippie next door to this ain't bad either), plus there's a post office and the like. Never heard of there being any trouble there, or much of a night life lol. It's a short hop to coaltown (coalville) for some of the larger supermarkets and stuff, plus a few more pubs, though the only one I've been in was the bitter & twisted, to be fair...
It's also for enough from the ***** camp at bagworth for that not to be a problem.