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CHILDREN at three Leicester primary schools are celebrating their success in an internationally-recognised environmental award scheme.

A SCHEME that will replace the dingy alleyway between Horsefair Street and Leicester Market with a welcoming new walkway gets under way tomorrow (Wednesday).

Black History Month takes place in October. In Leicester, this year’s events explore the ideas of representation and free speech with the theme Seen and Not Heard: Black Women.

PEOPLE can step back in time at a Victorian-themed family fun day on Victoria Park this weekend.

LEICESTER Market’s free Friday zumba classes are moving to lunchtimes so that more people can join in.

HISTORIC sites and buildings across the city are opening their doors to visitors for the second weekend of Heritage Open Days.

A POLICE-LED operation to test whether retailers in Leicester would sell knives to under-age customers has had encouraging results, with all the businesses tested refusing to sell a knife to the young volunteers.

PART of a busy road junction is due to be closed to traffic this weekend to allow for resurfacing work to take place.

WORK on a new ‘supercrossing’ spanning Vaughan Way to connect the city centre to the new multimillion pound Waterside developments is nearing completion.

DRIVERS are being warned of traffic disruption ahead of essential works by Severn Trent Water on Anstey Lane.

OVER 30,000 free lunches were given to children in Leicester this summer as part of a scheme to help beat holiday hunger.

THE cobbled street under a historical city landmark will be closed temporarily next week, to make way for essential repairs.

LEICESTER’S Lady Mayoress is inviting people to join her at the Town Hall on Saturday (15 September) for a coffee morning that will help raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal.

LEICESTER is set for a football fiesta on and off the pitch next week when the city hosts England v Switzerland at the King Power stadium.

DOZENS of historic sites across Leicester will be opening their doors to the public over the next two weekends for a programme of Heritage Open Days.

THE SEARCH is on to find the paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures and craft that will feature in this year’s Open art exhibition in Leicester.

A LEADING international expert on eighteenth-century urban history will give a free public lecture to help launch a new Georgian interest group in the city.

THIS weekend will be the last chance to view the historic Wolsey Angels at Leicester’s New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.

PART of Leicester’s busy inner ring road will be closed overnight to traffic from next week while major resurfacing works take place.

THE EGYPTIAN Gallery at Leicester’s New Walk Museum will close this weekend – but it won’t be long before two brand new galleries dedicated to Ancient Egypt open at the city council’s flagship museum.

FAMILIES can take part in a virtual treasure hunt at city parks over the summer – with the chance to win some very real prizes!

THERE’S lots going on at Leicester Market tomorrow (Friday 24 August), with a live cookery demonstration at 12.30pm and a free zumba class at 5.15pm.

A SPECIALLY commissioned artwork is welcoming visitors to the St George’s Cultural Quarter in Leicester’s city centre.

A PROGRAMME of installing new parking areas and laybys in residential areas across Leicester gets underway from the end of this month.

A STUNNING exhibition that showcases one of the UK’s finest and most complete collections of original Star Wars toys has attracted more visitors in its first month than Fearless Foxes in 2016.

THE fun-packed programme of events for this year’s City Festival continues to bring the heart of Leicester to life this week.

STORYTELLING and mischief will be on offer on Jubilee Square tomorrow (22 Aug) as part of the City Festival.

TWO of the city’s community buildings are being handed over to local groups for them to run.

A RIVER ‘monster’ made out of discarded plastic will be launching onto the River Soar later this week.

PEOPLE can find out about the benefits of getting involved in outdoor activities on Leicester’s parks at a one-day workshop.

ONE of Leicestershire’s most enduring mysteries will be revisited this weekend, with re-enactments, presentations and a rare visit to the city’s original courtroom at Leicester Castle.

A TEAM of museum volunteers which has salvaged and archived tens of thousands of vintage photographs of Leicester has been recognised with a heritage award.

THE countdown is underway for the return of Leicester’s City Festival.

MISCHIEF-MAKERS of all ages can join in with an action-packed family funday at Curve this week.

AN ACTION-PACKED festival of cycling is coming to Leicester this weekend, with events including an exciting elite race, the chance to meet professional cyclists and a mass-participation bike ride on traffic-free streets. And it’s all free!

THERE’S still time for children and young people in Leicester to get moving this summer, thanks to a programme of free activities at the city’s 12 children’s centres.

A LIFE-SIZE sculpture of a medieval farmer with his ox and plough has been installed in a Leicester park in a tribute to the land’s agricultural past.

AN INNOVATIVE project to create a floating sculpture out of litter thrown into rivers is getting under way in Leicester.

WITH more than three weeks of the long school summer holidays to go – families in Leicester are being reminded there’s a huge range of activities on offer on their doorstep.

YOU don’t need to know your merengue from your mambo, or your samba from your salsa – but a sense of rhythm might help you get the most out of Leicester Market’s new Friday night zumba classes.

THE winning design has been revealed in a competition to help transform the new base for Leicester’s sexual health services.