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PEOPLE in Leicester are being invited to take part in the city’s first climate assembly and help shape the local response to the climate emergency.

A CHARITY scheme, that encourages students to donate their unwanted items at the end of term instead of throwing them away, has saved an incredible 39 tonnes of items from being thrown away in Leicester.

LEICESTER City Council will be making changes to its regular waste and recycling collection days over the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.

SCHOOLS in Leicester have been planting native tree species in parks and open spaces to provide more places for wildlife to cope with our changing climate.

LEICESTER Park & Ride is running extra services throughout December – which means you can catch a Park & Ride bus every day, apart from on Christmas Day.

LEICESTER City Council has marked the start of National Tree Week by taking delivery of hundreds of new trees that will be planted in the city this winter.

PEOPLE are being asked to help shape a citywide vision on the changes needed for Leicester to become carbon neutral and play its part in tackling the global climate emergency.

COMMUNITIES, individuals and schools are being encouraged to help prevent food waste this Halloween by eating pumpkins as well as carving them.

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

PROPOSALS to further improve air quality in Leicester and bring levels of harmful emissions to within Government guidelines have been outlined by the city council.

PUPILS and staff from St Barnabas C of E Primary School in Leicester are celebrating their win in the annual schools’ Grow Your Own Grub competition.

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.