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• Photograph exhibition shows life under apartheid

  25 January 2023

  4 minute read

  APARTHEID-era South Africa is the focus of a powerful photographic exhibition coming to Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.

• Council teams up with Stephen Lawrence Research Centre to develop training for educators

  25 January 2023

  3 minute read

  A PROGRAMME designed to help schools better engage with their students, whatever their background, has been developed by the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre in partnership with the city council.

• Company prosecuted over illegal storage of fireworks

  24 January 2023

  2 minute read

  A BUSINESS has been fined £40,000 after illegally storing powerful fireworks in dangerous conditions.

• Photo ID needed by voters in local elections

  24 January 2023

  2 minute read

  VOTERS wanting to take part in this year’s local government elections will need to show photo identification for the first time under new Government rules.

• Leicester 10k race takes to city’s streets this weekend

  24 January 2023

  2 minute read

  DRIVERS heading into Leicester this weekend need to be aware of possible traffic disruption due to a major sporting event taking place.

• Leicester gets ready to celebrate Chinese New Year

  18 January 2023

  1 minute read

  A WEEKEND of special events coordinated by Leicester-based Cosmopolitan Arts will mark the start of the Chinese Year of the Rabbit.

• Improvements planned for neighbourhood ball courts

  18 January 2023

  1 minute read

  WORK to upgrade three neighbourhood ball courts and kick-about areas in Leicester is to get under way this year.

• A50 bus lane camera enforcement begins

  18 January 2023

  1 minute read

  MOTORISTS who drive in a designated bus lane on part of the A50 will face fines from this week.

• City primary school shortlisted for Young Litter Heroes award

  18 January 2023

  2 minute read

  CHILDREN at a Leicester primary school will find out next month if their litter-picking efforts have won them a prestigious national award.

• Major improvement works to begin at Leicester’s busy FiveWays junction

  18 January 2023

  3 minute read

  A MAJOR programme of improvements to one of Leicester’s ‘most confusing’ junctions and its connecting roads will begin later this month.

• Schools rewarded at celebration of sustainability and wellbeing

  16 January 2023

  4 minute read

  SCHOOLS across Leicester have received awards for their hard work and dedication in environmental education, health and wellbeing at a celebration event.

• Events at Newarke Houses Museum this winter

  16 January 2023

  1 minute read

  THE STORY of the Leicestershire Regiment and the First World War battle for Bazentin Wood provides the theme for a talk at Newarke Houses Museum on Sunday.