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ENGLAND’S patron saint will be celebrated in Leicester later this month as the city’s annual St George’s Festival gets under way.

VISITORS can enjoy the first tastes of spring in the air at the Belgrave Hall’s picturesque and historic walled gardens from this week.

VOLUNTEERS joined a litter pick organised by the city council to help spruce up one of Leicester’s busiest streets.

APPRENTICES in the city council’s housing department are heading to Malta to encourage others to take up apprenticeships.

LEICESTER people are being invited to share their views on a health and wellbeing strategy for the city.

ORGANISERS of Leicester’s biggest free family festival are calling on local artists to get involved in displaying and selling their work.

WORK starts this week on improvements designed to make Newarke Street car park safer and easier for motorists to use.

MOTORISTS are being warned about a series of overnight closures that will be taking place on stretches of Leicester’s busy London Road next month.

AN AMBITIOUS appeal to raise nearly £33,000 for a new kayak launch at the Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre (LOPC) has reached its target.

THE LIGHTS at Leicester’s Town Hall will go off for an hour next weekend as the city joins a worldwide event to highlight climate change.

DRIVERS are being reminded of a road closure affecting a busy junction this weekend in the next phase of a major improvement scheme.

PROPERTY owners in Leicester’s Church Gate could get help to restore historic shopfronts as part of a new partnership scheme.