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• Reuse Shop recycles unwanted goods into cash for charity

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A CHARITY shop at a Leicester recycling centre has raised thousands of pounds to support local older people since opening to the public in January. 

• Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay to visit Leicester as full England route revealed

  11 May 2022

  5 minute read

  THE BIRMINGHAM 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Leicester during its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed.

• Street name celebrates Foxes’ Wembley success 52 years on

  10 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A COUNCIL employee’s idea to name a new Leicester street ‘Wembley Road’ as a good luck omen ahead of the 1969 FA Cup Final finally paid off – more than 50 years later.

• More help with living costs available for city’s most vulnerable

  9 May 2022

  2 minute read

  EVERY pensioner in Leicester who claims pension credit is to receive a voucher for £100 to help with their costs for fuel and food, using money from the Government’s Household Support Fund.

• Focus on communities for Foster Care Fortnight

  9 May 2022

  1 minute read

  FOSTER carers in Leicester are celebrating the strength, resilience and diversity of the local fostering community as they take part in Foster Care Fortnight (9-22 May).  

• Council calls on residents and businesses to help tackle Willow Brook litter issue

  6 May 2022

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and residents in parts of north-east Leicester are to be asked for their help in tackling an on-going litter problem in a nearby waterway.

• Changes to Evington streets aim to improve safety, congestion and local environment

  6 May 2022

  2 minute read

  NEW measures are set to be tried out on neighbourhood streets in Evington to help reduce traffic speeds, congestion, inappropriate parking and rat-running.

• Pop-up pantries will help ensure youngsters don’t go hungry this half-term

  6 May 2022

  3 minute read

  CHILDREN in Leicester on free school meals won’t miss out over the half-term break, thanks to a holiday food programme that’s supported by Company Shop and Samworth Brothers.

• Work starts on major neighbourhood cycling route improvements

  6 May 2022

  2 minute read

  WORK has started on a major new neighbourhood cycling route in Leicester as part of a government-backed citywide programme of investment in sustainable transport.

• Call for artists to submit designs for public art commemorating city’s Ugandan Asians

  4 May 2022

  3 minute read

  ARTISTS from across the region are being invited to put forward designs and ideas for a new public artwork commemorating the 50th anniversary of the arrival of thousands of Ugandan Asians in Leicester.

• Street boxes containing vital aid launched as part of knife crime strategy

  3 May 2022

  2 minute read

  EMERGENCY boxes aimed at providing urgent assistance to victims of knife crime have been launched in Leicester as part of the council’s strategy on knife crime and serious violence.

• Work to begin on £1.5m Braunstone Gate ‘mini-Holland’ improvement scheme

  29 April 2022

  4 minute read

  WORK to make permanent a pop-up ‘mini-Holland’ scheme in part of Leicester’s West End is due to get underway early next month.