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• Nominees for City of Leicester Awards announced

  15 November 2023

  3 minute read

  A LOCAL gospel choir, a passionate health campaigner, and the man who created Leicester’s comedy festival have all been nominated for a top civic award.

• City to fall silent for Remembrance Day commemorations this weekend

  9 November 2023

  3 minute read

  PEOPLE across Leicester will remember the city’s fallen service men and women in the annual Remembrance Day service this weekend.

• Training project boosts skills of people facing homelessness

  7 November 2023

  4 minute read

  PEOPLE facing homelessness are getting the chance to equip themselves with new skills and job opportunities in a project run by the city council and a charity.

• Appeal for Bonfire Night pallets

  31 October 2023

  2 minute read

  LOCAL businesses are being called on to help Leicester’s Bonfire Night go with a bang by donating their broken or surplus wooden pallets. 

• Remembrance Day commemorations to take place

  31 October 2023

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER will come together to remember its fallen service men and women in the annual Remembrance Day service.

• City Mayor calls on Government to increase council funding to protect crucial services

  27 October 2023

  1 minute read

  LEICESTER’S City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has written to the Government to warn that the city council will struggle to balance its books in the next 18 months unless there is a change to Government funding.

• Last chance for groups to apply for anti-poverty community grants

  12 October 2023

  2 minute read

  ORGANISATIONS working to address poverty in Leicester – such as schools, charities and community groups – have less than a week left to apply for a grant of up to £50,000 to support their work.

• Partnership makes life-saving equipment accessible to public

  6 October 2023

  4 minute read

  A life-saving defibrillator has been fitted to the outside of Spence Street Sports Centre thanks to the support of a local heart charity, the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust (JHMT).

• New Director of Public Health set to take up post

  31 August 2023

  2 minute read

  THE man responsible for leading Leicester’s public health response during the Covid pandemic is handing over the reins of office.

• Road safety work to begin at Hungarton Boulevard

  16 August 2023

  2 minute read

  A NEW road safety scheme is to be brought in to reduce traffic speeds and cut the risk of accidents on a busy section of Leicester’s outer ring road.

• Council reviews extent of flooding in city after unprecedented rainfall

  15 August 2023

  2 minute read

  THE city council is gathering information on the scale and impact of flooding in the city, following the unprecedented rainfall experienced in Leicester and across the county on 22 June this year.

• Beaumont Market set to close in September

  27 July 2023

  1 minute read

  THE city council has announced that Beaumont Market, (Beaumont Leys), will close from September this year, in the light of current and predicted trading losses.