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• City welcomes its first African Caribbean Lord Mayor

  19 May 2022

  2 minute read

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

• Award-winning street art festival returns to Leicester

  18 May 2022

  2 minute read

  GRAFFITI artists from around the world will be creating stunning artworks on the streets of Leicester this month, as the internationally acclaimed Bring The Paint festival returns to the city.

• Repair works to take place on two bridges on busy road

  18 May 2022

  1 minute read

  TWO bridges carrying a busy road are due to undergo extensive repairs and replacement work from next month.

• City announced as partner for Imperial War Museums’ £2.5m commemorative artwork programme

  17 May 2022

  6 minute read

  LEICESTER has been chosen as one of five UK cities to feature in a prestigious commemorative project reflecting on conflict since the end of the First World War.

• New project will restore heritage cycle route

  17 May 2022

  4 minute read

  TREE-LINED cycle tracks that were first designed and built in the 1930s are set to be restored as part of a new project to improve walking and cycling routes in Leicester.

• Time to vote for city’s heroes of dental care

  16 May 2022

  3 minute read

  IT’S time to vote for the health professionals, dental teams, teachers, nursery staff and volunteers who are doing the most to help improve oral health in Leicester.

• 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.