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• Community testing stepped up as city bids to drive down covid-19 infection rate

  9 July 2020

  4 minute read

  THOUSANDS of tests are being carried out in Leicester each day as part of the city’s strategy to bring down the coronavirus infection rate.

• £8.1 million scheme will create hundreds of extra SEND school places

  9 July 2020

  3 minute read

  MORE than £8.1 million is to be invested in a programme of creating new school places and provisions for children with additional educational needs.

• Haymarket car park to close for one day this weekend

  8 July 2020

  1 minute read

  A MAIN city centre car park will be closed for one day this weekend while essential work is carried out

• Work begins on major highway improvements at Leicester’s Clock Tower

  7 July 2020

  2 minute read

  WORK to revamp the area around the historic Clock Tower in Leicester city centre is now underway.

• Council-led taskforce tackles issues in city factories

  6 July 2020

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council is working with partners across the city to tackle issues with factory working highlighted by the current coronavirus crisis.

• Stay alert and stay home in Leicester

  3 July 2020

  2 minute read

  AS Leicester city and parts of Leicestershire continue to follow stricter lockdown restrictions, than other parts of the country, the councils and Public Health England are asking residents to stay at home and stay safe, particularly this weekend as the rest of the country starts to open up again.

• Knife crime conversations go online

  2 July 2020

  2 minute read

  A COMMUNITY event giving people the chance to talk about tackling knife crime is going online so that discussions can continue despite coronavirus.

• Council continues to invest in city’s secondary schools

  2 July 2020

  2 minute read

  MORE than £20m of investment will ensure that eight of Leicester’s most popular secondary schools can continue to meet demand for pupil places over the next eight years.

• Lockdown restrictions in Leicester to be extended for at least two weeks

  29 June 2020

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE in Leicester and its outlying suburbs are to be asked to continue to follow current national restrictions for at least a further two weeks, and non-essential shops will be asked to close.

• Changes to Dover Street traffic starting this weekend

  26 June 2020

  3 minute read

  ALTERATIONS are being made to traffic flow on a city centre street from this weekend as part of a wider scheme to improve facilities for cyclists and pedestrians and help shoppers to observe safe social distancing.

• Outbound pop-up cycle route introduced on Hinckley Road

  26 June 2020

  3 minute read

  THE latest in a series of pop-up cycling and walking routes on major commuter routes in Leicester is being installed along a stretch of Hinckley Road.

• Council puts £600,000 into emergency food provision

  26 June 2020

  3 minute read

  THE city council has put over £600,000 of support into emergency food provision over the past 12 weeks, working with food banks across the city to keep people safe during the coronavirus crisis.