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• City rated best in the region to live and work

  25 May 2023

  2 minute read

  Leicester has been ranked as the top city in the East Midlands to live and work as part of an influential nationwide industry report.

• Overnight road closures planned for resurfacing work

  25 May 2023

  2 minute read

  PART of Leicester’s busy inner ring road will be subject to overnight closures for up to four days next week for essential resurfacing works.

• Jobs and training on offer at North Leicester jobs fair

  24 May 2023

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE living in the Belgrave, Beaumont Leys and Mowmacre Hill areas of Leicester will be able to find out about jobs and training opportunities on offer in the city at a major recruitment fair taking place next month.

• Film is a reminder to Respect our Rivers

  23 May 2023

  2 minute read

  A SHORT film has been created to urge people not to pollute Leicester’s rivers and waterways by dumping litter or other items harmful to wildlife.

• Go traffic-free every month with Open Streets

  23 May 2023

  1 minute read

  FREE events that make the most of Leicester’s people-friendly streets and spaces will be on offer in Leicester this weekend, as the city council’s regular Open Streets series returns.

• Punk returns to Leicester this summer in major new exhibition

  22 May 2023

  2 minute read

  THE PUBS, clubs and characters that were part of Leicester’s punk scene in the 1970s will be remembered in a new exhibition that opens in the city on Saturday (27 May).

• New grassland plan will help city’s climate emergency aims

  22 May 2023

  7 minute read

  A NEW ten-year plan for the management of Leicester’s vast urban grassland has been launched as part of the city council’s response to the climate emergency.

• New Lord Mayor takes on role

  19 May 2023

  1 minute read

  LEICESTER’S new Lord Mayor has been handed the chains of office at a ceremony in the city’s Town Hall.

• Improvement work planned for walking and cycling route

  18 May 2023

  1 minute read

  A POPULAR route for walkers and cyclists is to be widened and resurfaced in the latest phase of improvements.

• Foster carers’ work highlighted in two-week campaign

  18 May 2023

  3 minute read

  A LEICESTER couple have given a new start in life to more than 400 children in a 45-year period as the city’s longest-serving foster carers.

• New 20mph zone begins in city’s Western ward

  18 May 2023

  1 minute read

  WORK is complete on a new 20mph zone in a residential area near a school in a Leicester neighbourhood.

• New one-way system installed at Frisby Road Area

  17 May 2023

  1 minute read

  A NEW one-way traffic system is coming into effect in residential streets in part of the city’s North Evington ward at the end of May.