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• CityBus will bring safety message and support to city centre

  23 February 2021

  3 minute read

  A NEW purpose-built vehicle is due to take to the streets to provide public safety messaging, help and support within Leicester’s city centre.

• Reading Friends will connect those who may be feeling isolated

  23 February 2021

  1 minute read

  A NEW service being launched by Leicester Libraries and the Reading Agency is helping people to keep in touch during the lockdown.

• Funding boost to further clean up bus emissions

  23 February 2021

  2 minute read

  A FURTHER 42 buses that provide services in Leicester will be adapted to make them cleaner to run as part of the city’s efforts to cut air pollution.

• Council seizes speaker following noise complaints from neighbours

  19 February 2021

  2 minute read

  COUNCIL officers have seized noise equipment from a flat in Leicester after neighbours complained about very loud music being repeatedly played in the property.

• More covid safety checks on city businesses

  15 February 2021

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and organisations in Leicester could soon be getting a call from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), which is working with the city council to carry out covid safety checks.

• New rapid coronavirus testing site now open

  12 February 2021

  2 minute read

  A NEW walk-in centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to workers who have no symptoms of the virus has opened in Leicester today (Friday 12 February).

• Two local road safety schemes to get underway

  11 February 2021

  1 minute read

  Work is due to begin on installing new traffic calming measures in two planned 20mph zones in Western Park.

• Widespread road resurfacing programme to begin

  10 February 2021

  3 minute read

  A PROGRAMME of repairing and resurfacing streets in neighbourhoods across Leicester is due to take place over the coming weeks.

• Equipment seized from flat after noise nuisance reports

  9 February 2021

  1 minute read

  THE occupant of a flat at the centre of ongoing noise nuisance problems has had the equipment confiscated in an operation by noise and pollution control officers from Leicester City Council

• Latest homes completed as part of council house-building programme

  4 February 2021

  2 minute read

  NEW homes created in the latest phase of a major house-building scheme by Leicester City Council have been completed.

• Leicester City Council announces new chief operating officer

  4 February 2021

  2 minute read

  ALISON Greenhill, currently director of finance with Leicester City Council, is set to become its new chief operating officer.

• Prestigious award for Leicester Museum and Art Gallery

  4 February 2021

  2 minute read

  Leicester Museum and Art Gallery has become one of only five museums in the UK to win an award for welcoming people who arrive in the city seeking refuge.