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FREE workshops for children aged 9+ and their families are taking place in Leicester over the Easter holidays, giving people the chance to be part of something really big!
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18 January 2022
3 minute read
LEICESTER has been announced as one of seven UK cities that will host a national art education project this year that aims to transform understanding of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
17 January 2022
3 minute read
A GALLERY that tells the stories of Leicester’s communities, opportunities to interact with dinosaurs, and an AR reconstruction of the medieval friary where King Richard III was buried are just some of the developments that visitors to Leicester’s museums can look forward to.
13 January 2022
2 minute read
GARDENERS in Aylestone have teamed up with the city council to create a new communal allotment plot.
11 January 2022
2 minute read
A BUSY shopping street and main gateway between Leicester city centre and the railway station is set for a revamp, with work due to begin later this week.
11 January 2022
3 minute read
A POP-UP scheme introduced to create more space for pedestrians and cyclists on a busy Leicester shopping street could be made permanent.
11 January 2022
2 minute read
A SERIES of 10 new heritage panels have been installed to tell the stories behind key historic and cultural sites across the city.
7 January 2022
2 minute read
TRAFFIC restrictions will be in place at a junction on a busy main road in Leicester from next week as part of a major highway improvement programme.
7 January 2022
2 minute read
WORK to streamline and modernise Leicester’s network of recycling bank sites will get underway next month.
6 January 2022
2 minute read
IMPROVEMENTS to public spaces in two Leicester neighbourhoods will be carried out thanks to a £5million investment over the next three years.
5 January 2022
1 minute read
THE next phase of a rolling programme to repair and improve pavements, street furniture and bollards along Narborough Road is due to get underway this weekend.
23 December 2021
1 minute read
A BRAND new facility for those who love to play cricket will open in Belgrave in January.
22 December 2021
1 minute read
PEOPLE in Leicester are being asked if health and care organisations in the city have got their priorities right for improving people’s health over the coming years.