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A FREE reading challenge with stickers to collect will help keep children busy over the summer holidays – and is available now from Leicester’s libraries.

A LEICESTER scheme aimed at tacking fuel poverty with grants to help people install energy efficient and renewable technologies in their homes has received a major cash boost.

A WARM and welcoming place where people can meet and learn new skills is reopening in Leicester next week.

PEOPLE from all of Leicester’s diverse communities are being asked to share their memories of the city for a major new exhibition.

A PROGRAMME of festivals and events will help Leicester’s economy bounce back this year, with small-scale, COVID-safe events encouraging people back into the city centre.

LEICESTER’S museums are open once again – just in time for the school holidays.

AS THE clock runs down on Euro 2020 and the government roadmap, joint chiefs across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland are getting behind the latest push for people to get their COVID vaccine.

AN INNOVATIVE new knife crime strategy that has been designed by and for local communities is being launched in Leicester.

ALTERATIONS are due to be made to a citywide network of pop-up safe cycling, walking, and social-distance measures which were introduced during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.

A NEW road scheme designed to tackle congestion and create a shorter route between two of the city’s busiest arterial roads is to get underway next week.

LEICESTER’S Bookbus service is to go electric as part of the city council’s commitment to tackling the climate emergency.

DOZENS of residential streets in Rushey Mead are to be included in a new 20mph zone aimed at cutting traffic speeds and improving safety.