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• Caseload rockets for city’s covid tracing team

  8 January 2021

  3 minute read

  THE TEAM charged with tracking down people who test positive for coronavirus, but who fail to respond to an automated message, has seen a huge surge in its workload.

• Reminder for artwork to be part of commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day

  7 January 2021

  2 minute read

  Reminder for artwork to be part of commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day

• Overnight road closures planned for final phase of Belgrave Gate improvements

  6 January 2021

  2 minute read

  A MAJOR programme of road resurfacing is due to take place at a busy roundabout in Leicester, as work nears completion on a £2million improvement scheme

• Rapid coronavirus testing helping to identify asymptomatic covid carriers

  5 January 2021

  2 minute read

  A WALK-IN centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to those without symptoms is helping to identify people in Leicester who could be passing on the virus without knowing it.

• Coronavirus: Important new information for you

  5 January 2021

  3 minute read

  STAY at home, save lives and protect the NHS. That’s the message from the government and public health experts, as a new national lockdown begins to tackle a more easily-caught strain of coronavirus which is spreading across the country.

• City Wardens’ team shortlisted for national awards

  31 December 2020

  2 minute read

  City council teams who tackle flytipping and littering in Leicester’s streets have been shortlisted in the annual Keep Britain Tidy awards for their work during 2020’s coronavirus lockdowns.

• Leicester to move to Tier 4 of Government’s covid alert levels

  30 December 2020

  4 minute read

  LEICESTER is to move to Tier 4 of the Government’s covid alert levels after a nationwide review of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Gritting teams keep the traffic moving on city’s road network

  29 December 2020

  1 minute read

  LORRIES from Leicester City Council’s gritting teams are taking to the city's roads again tonight as sub-zero temperatures and snow affect the area.

• Artwork will form commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day

  29 December 2020

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE from across Leicester are being called on to submit artwork or personal photographs as part of the forthcoming annual commemoration of the Holocaust.

• Major air pollution study will help put city ‘ahead of the curve’

  22 December 2020

  3 minute read

  A ground-breaking project to provide people in Leicester with real-time information about local air pollution from fine particulates is in its final stages of development.

• St Margaret’s Bus Station to close as works begins on £13.5m redevelopment

  21 December 2020

  3 minute read

  ST Margaret’s Bus Station in Leicester will close to the public this month, as work begins on its major £13.5million redevelopment.

• Information available on Christmas and New Year council services

  21 December 2020

  3 minute read

  DETAILS explaining how and when people can make use of all city council services over the festive period are now available.