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• Lots on at Leicester’s Newarke Houses Museum this May

  13 May 2022

  3 minute read

  THERE’S a busy programme of talks, events and exhibitions at Leicester’s Newarke Houses Museum this month.

• £800,000 improvement programme for city’s estates

  13 May 2022

  2 minute read

  NEW car parking spaces, cutting back shrubs and tidying up overgrown green spaces are among the improvements that have been made to a city estate after residents told the council what they’d like to see done.

• Celebration of 70 years of dance to mark Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

  12 May 2022

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER’S Jubilee Square will be the setting for a spectacular celebration of dancing across seven decades as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Leicestershire.

• New permanent gallery tells stories of city’s people

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A FASCINATING new permanent gallery opens at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday (14 May) that will inspire conversations about the city today.

• Leicester Museum celebrates all things 80s with new exhibition

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  SHELLSUITS, boomboxes and Peanut Treets are some of the items that will be fondly remembered in a new exhibition at Leicester Museum from Saturday (14 May).

• Reuse Shop recycles unwanted goods into cash for charity

  11 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A CHARITY shop at a Leicester recycling centre has raised thousands of pounds to support local older people since opening to the public in January. 

• Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay to visit Leicester as full England route revealed

  11 May 2022

  5 minute read

  THE BIRMINGHAM 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Leicester during its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed.

• Street name celebrates Foxes’ Wembley success 52 years on

  10 May 2022

  2 minute read

  A COUNCIL employee’s idea to name a new Leicester street ‘Wembley Road’ as a good luck omen ahead of the 1969 FA Cup Final finally paid off – more than 50 years later.

• More help with living costs available for city’s most vulnerable

  9 May 2022

  2 minute read

  EVERY pensioner in Leicester who claims pension credit is to receive a voucher for £100 to help with their costs for fuel and food, using money from the Government’s Household Support Fund.

• Focus on communities for Foster Care Fortnight

  9 May 2022

  1 minute read

  FOSTER carers in Leicester are celebrating the strength, resilience and diversity of the local fostering community as they take part in Foster Care Fortnight (9-22 May).  

• Council calls on residents and businesses to help tackle Willow Brook litter issue

  6 May 2022

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and residents in parts of north-east Leicester are to be asked for their help in tackling an on-going litter problem in a nearby waterway.

• Changes to Evington streets aim to improve safety, congestion and local environment

  6 May 2022

  2 minute read

  NEW measures are set to be tried out on neighbourhood streets in Evington to help reduce traffic speeds, congestion, inappropriate parking and rat-running.