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EIGHT new electric bikes are part of a fleet of cycles and scooters available to hire from the city council for people who need help getting to work, training or education.

MOTORISTS using a busy road junction on a key route in and out of the city are being reminded to consider alternative routes during a forthcoming nine-day closure.

PEOPLE travelling in Leicester this Sunday for the start of the city’s Diwali celebrations can take advantage of special Park and Ride services.

TWO busy city centre car parks will be closed for two days later this month as work on a major road improvement scheme nears completion.

REPAIRS and resurfacing work is due to be carried out on two sections of road in the city during October.

RACE organisers have announced the cancellation of this year’s Leicester Marathon after heavy rainfall left sections of the race route underwater and impassable.

AN important junction on a key route in and out of the city is set to close during the October half term holidays for major resurfacing work.

MORE than three thousand runners will take to Leicester’s streets this weekend for the annual Leicester Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay Challenge races.

WORK to improve a stretch of Leicester’s busy Abbey Park Road will is due to begin next month.

THERE’S a wartime theme to this month’s Open Streets festival in the city centre.

A PROGRAMME of improvements in communities across Leicester will improve neighbourhood facilities ranging from parking and traffic measures to trees and shopping areas.

LEICESTER has been awarded almost £100,000 for a scheme to trial the use of on-street charging points in residential areas.