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• Schools rewarded for sustainable efforts

  1 October 2021

  3 minute read

  SCHOOLS across Leicester have received awards for their efforts to put environmental sustainability and locally-grown food at the heart of their work.

• Readings, workshops and poetry on offer for Libraries Week

  1 October 2021

  1 minute read

  FREE, open-to-all events will be taking place across the city next week to mark national Libraries Week, covering topics including crime writing, poetry and the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Experimental parking scheme in Clarendon Park to be extended

  30 September 2021

  2 minute read

  AN experimental traffic scheme to tackle commuter parking in a Leicester neighbourhood is now being extended to cover more streets.

• Campaign to prevent domestic abuse reaches out to Asian women

  29 September 2021

  3 minute read

  ‘You are not alone’ is the message being sent to victims of domestic abuse as part of a new campaign launched today in Leicester.

• Defibrillators installed across three neighbourhood sites in city

  29 September 2021

  3 minute read

  New life-saving defibrillators have been installed at three community sites across Beaumont Leys following work by ward councillors with support from a local heart charity.

• Overnight road closures ahead as part of regeneration of St Margaret’s Bus Station

  28 September 2021

  2 minute read

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

• Youth club seeks crowdfunding support for new community gym

  22 September 2021

  2 minute read

  A YOUTH club in Eyres Monsell is seeking the public’s support for a project that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages in the area.

• Review for council’s tree strategy

  22 September 2021

  2 minute read

  A MAJOR plan that guides the management of Leicester’s ‘urban forest’ has been formally reviewed – two and a half years after it was first launched.

• Renewed environment and sustainability goals set out by council in revised policy

  22 September 2021

  2 minute read

  A KEY policy guiding Leicester City Council’s approach to protecting and improving the environment has been updated to reflect the city’s response to the climate emergency.

• Council offers support to bring award-winning social supermarket to local neighbourhood

  22 September 2021

  2 minute read

  A FORMER youth centre in Leicester is to be leased to an award-winning social enterprise which plans to open a new store in the city.

• Leicester’s Great Big Green Week to close with schools’ march for climate action

  21 September 2021

  2 minute read

  SCHOOLS across Leicester are joining a nationwide call for action on climate change this week as part of the first ever Great Big Green Week campaign.

• Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill lends her support to Santander Cycles Leicester

  20 September 2021

  4 minute read

  OLYMPIC champion and Santander brand ambassador Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill visited Leicester today to support the city’s popular new e-bike share project, Santander Cycles Leicester.