May 2022

• Leicester to host curtain-raiser to the 2022-23 football season

  1 June 2022

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  FANS of Liverpool and Manchester City will be heading for Leicester in July to watch their teams compete for the first trophy of the new football season.

• Interest sought in running key city venue

  31 May 2022

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  COMMUNITY organisations are being invited to express their interest in running Leicester’s African Caribbean Centre.

• City libraries take part in Big Jubilee Read

  30 May 2022

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  TITLES from Bernadine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood, John Le Carre and many more are available to borrow from Leicester’s libraries as part of the Big Jubilee Read.

• Guildhall events will bring past to life

  27 May 2022

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  TWO forthcoming events at Leicester’s historic Guildhall promise to bring the past to life.

• Make a crown to celebrate Platinum Jubilee

  26 May 2022

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  PEOPLE from across Leicester are being encouraged to get into the Jubilee spirit during the half term holidays by taking part in a scheme run by the Lord Mayor’s office.

• No changes to waste collections in city over Jubilee bank holiday

  26 May 2022

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  ALL recycling and waste collections in Leicester will take place on the normal collection days over the forthcoming special bank holiday to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

• Communities across Leicester set to celebrate Platinum Jubilee

  26 May 2022

  2 minute read

  COMMUNITIES across Leicester have been helping to plan a wide range of events and activities to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next month.

• New online tool aims to help Leicester people be better off

  25 May 2022

  3 minute read

  A NEW benefits calculator and budgeting tool has been launched to help Leicester people manage their finances and minimise the impact of the cost of living crisis.

• Join free bike rides and meet artists at work

  24 May 2022

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  FREE guided bike rides in Leicester this week will offer people the chance to meet the artists creating street art for the Bring The Paint festival.

• Riverside Festival kick-starts city’s summer fun

  24 May 2022

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  LEICESTER’s biggest free family festival will take to the city’s waterways and open spaces once again next month with a fun-packed programme of activities for all ages.

• Historic market tales brought to life through new app

  24 May 2022

  2 minute read

  STORIES associated with Leicester Market’s past are being brought to life, thanks to a brand new app that’s free to download.

• Lots of ideas for days out in Leicester this half-term

  23 May 2022

  5 minute read

  THERE’S lots going on in Leicester during the half-term break – with many activities free of charge.

• Out-of-hours access to libraries tried out in pilot scheme

  23 May 2022

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  LIBRARY members will be able to access library buildings and services out of hours in a trial scheme being launched at two city libraries.

• Council partners with leading homeless charity to offer learning and life skills

  20 May 2022

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  THE city council is celebrating the official launch of a new service that offers learning, training and employment support to people recovering from homelessness.

• City welcomes its first African Caribbean Lord Mayor

  19 May 2022

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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.

• Pop-up pantries will help ensure youngsters don’t go hungry this half-term

  6 May 2022

  3 minute read

  CHILDREN in Leicester on free school meals won’t miss out over the half-term break, thanks to a holiday food programme that’s supported by Company Shop and Samworth Brothers.

• Work starts on major neighbourhood cycling route improvements

  6 May 2022

  2 minute read

  WORK has started on a major new neighbourhood cycling route in Leicester as part of a government-backed citywide programme of investment in sustainable transport.

• Call for artists to submit designs for public art commemorating city’s Ugandan Asians

  4 May 2022

  3 minute read

  ARTISTS from across the region are being invited to put forward designs and ideas for a new public artwork commemorating the 50th anniversary of the arrival of thousands of Ugandan Asians in Leicester.

• Street boxes containing vital aid launched as part of knife crime strategy

  3 May 2022

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  EMERGENCY boxes aimed at providing urgent assistance to victims of knife crime have been launched in Leicester as part of the council’s strategy on knife crime and serious violence.