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• City’s schools ready to welcome back children from Monday

  5 March 2021

  3 minute read

  AFTER months of home learning, children across Leicester will be back in the classroom from Monday (8 March).

• City’s covid tracing team has 92% success rate

  4 March 2021

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council’s pioneering contact tracing team for coronavirus infections has successfully tracked down more than 92% of cases in the past three months.

• Next phase of road resurfacing works gets underway

  3 March 2021

  3 minute read

  A MAJOR programme of road surface improvement work is taking place in communities across Leicester this month.

• City council buys disused hospital accommodation to create new housing

  3 March 2021

  2 minute read

  £10.5million is due to be invested in buying over 170 derelict accommodation units and transforming them into much-needed affordable housing.

• Extra £1million added to Covid Winter Grant to help struggling families

  2 March 2021

  2 minute read

  AN additional £1million is being added to the Covid Winter Grant scheme to support local vulnerable families and individuals who are struggling to cope financially as a direct result of Covid this winter.

• Bridge renovation works to get underway

  1 March 2021

  1 minute read

  WORK to replace an ageing road bridge in a residential part of Leicester are due to get underway next week.

• Sixth rapid coronavirus testing site for Leicester

  1 March 2021

  2 minute read

  A NEW walk-in centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to people who have no symptoms of the virus has opened in Leicester.

• National Tiny Forest initiative takes root at Leicester school

  1 March 2021

  3 minute read

  HUNDREDS of trees are being planted at a Leicester school as part a campaign to create a network of urban micro forests in cities across the UK.

• Enforcement to begin on parking scheme in Clarendon Park

  26 February 2021

  4 minute read

  ENFORCEMENT of an experimental traffic scheme to tackle commuter parking is due to begin on Monday (1 March).

• Improvement works to popular recreational route

  25 February 2021

  2 minute read

  IMPROVEMENTS to a popular walking and cycling route will be carried out next month.

• Latest phase of business help available

  24 February 2021

  1 minute read

  BUSINESSES and charities are being called upon to apply for the latest in a series of grants to help with costs and loss of income during the coronavirus lockdown.

• Grants boost to help more homes stay warm and cut energy costs

  24 February 2021

  3 minute read

  A citywide scheme aimed at tackling fuel poverty with grants for energy efficient and low carbon heating has received a major cash boost.