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• Post a Poppy for this Remembrance Day

  20 October 2020

  2 minute read

  A CAMPAIGN is underway to encourage people in Leicester to commemorate Remembrance Day by creating poppy-themed artwork, cakes or other artefacts.

• Programme of preservation work to be carried out on Magazine Gateway

  20 October 2020

  2 minute read

  WORK is due to begin on the restoration and repair of one of Leicester’s oldest medieval buildings.

• Memorial stone commemorates Far East prisoners of war

  20 October 2020

  3 minute read

  A NEW memorial stone commemorating those who were taken prisoner in the Far East during the Second World War has been installed in the city.

• Be part of Leicester’s virtual Diwali celebrations!

  19 October 2020

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE in Leicester are being invited to be part of the city’s first virtual Diwali Day celebration.

• New link road to open in Leicester on Sunday (18th)

  16 October 2020

  2 minute read

  A NEW road that will improve bus journey times out of Leicester city centre will open for the first time on Sunday (18 October).

• Council contacts businesses to ensure they are covid-safe

  16 October 2020

  2 minute read

  PUBLIC safety officers from Leicester City Council are working with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to contact businesses in Leicester and make sure they are covid-secure.

• Work begins on £10m highways scheme for new housing at Ashton Green

  16 October 2020

  1 minute read

  WORK has started on a major £10million highway infrastructure scheme designed to unlock further development land at Leicester City Council’s Ashton Green housing site.

• Leicester gets ready to light up for Christmas

  16 October 2020

  2 minute read

  THE MAMMOTH task of installing the twinkling lights and the colourful garlands that will decorate Leicester city centre this Christmas gets under way this weekend.

• Gym at Aylestone Leisure Centre reopens after £440k revamp

  14 October 2020

  1 minute read

  GYM facilities at a popular Leicester leisure centre have been transformed, following a £440,000 revamp.

• Alternatives to traditional Remembrance Day events planned

  14 October 2020

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE across Leicester are being called on to commemorate this year’s Remembrance Day in new and creative ways in the face of Covid-19 pandemic.

• Sports, schools and social history feature on city’s latest heritage panels

  14 October 2020

  2 minute read

  A CORNER of Leicester with a motor-racing past, memories of a ‘magical’ school and sporting glories new and old are retold on Leicester’s latest crop of fascinating heritage panels.

• Leicester in Tier 2 of Government’s new Covid alert levels

  14 October 2020

  3 minute read

  RESTRICTIONS on household mixing in Leicester will largely continue unchanged, following the introduction of the Government’s new three-tier Local Covid Alert Level system.