January 2024

• Visitors shed light on Leicester’s photographic history

  25 January 2024

  2 minute read

  MORE than 15,000 visitors have so far explored an exhibition blending archive photographs and paintings of Leicester in the first six weeks of its opening.

• Work under way to renovate tennis courts on city parks

  25 January 2024

  2 minute read

  WORK is well under way to renovate seven of the city council’s parks-based tennis courts as part of a £420,000 transformation.

• City marks Holocaust Memorial Day

  24 January 2024

  1 minute read

  LEICESTER is set to remember those killed in genocides around the world at this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day.

• Netball players team up to plant trees

  22 January 2024

  1 minute read

  MEMBERS of a local netball team have joined Leicester City Council’s environmental rangers to plant dozens of small trees.

• Bridge works due to begin

  22 January 2024

  1 minute read

  MAJOR refurbishment work is due to take place on a road bridge in New Parks.

• Events coming up at Newarke Houses Museum

  22 January 2024

  2 minute read

  STORIES from the Leicester road that dates from Roman times and is now one of the most ethnically-diverse shopping streets in the country will be told in a new exhibition at Newarke Houses Museum.

• Have your say on new climate emergency action plan

  19 January 2024

  3 minute read

  THERE’S still time for people to have their say on the next phase in Leicester’s aim to become a net zero and climate-ready city.

• Work starts to make Granby Street pop-up pedestrian scheme permanent

  18 January 2024

  2 minute read

  WORK to further improve a busy shopping street and important gateway into Leicester City Centre is due to get underway.

• Get involved in review over taxi age policy

  18 January 2024

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE have a chance to give their views on proposals to change some of the age restrictions on vehicles which can be used as taxis in Leicester.

• Re-cladding work to start at Phoenix Square

  12 January 2024

  2 minute read

  Work is due to begin on re-cladding a landmark Leicester building.

• History of Narborough Road celebrated in two exhibitions

  12 January 2024

  4 minute read

  STORIES from the Leicester street that dates from Roman times and is now one of the most ethnically-diverse roads in the country will be told in two exhibitions later this month.

• Council to review historic conservation area

  12 January 2024

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE can give their views on how the special character of one of Leicester’s 25 designated conservation areas should be preserved or enhanced.

• Traffic restrictions in place as improvement scheme progresses

  5 January 2024

  2 minute read

  MOTORISTS are being advised that traffic restrictions will be in place on a busy Leicester route as work on a major road improvement scheme continues.

• Report sets out financial pressure on city’s homelessness services

  3 January 2024

  3 minute read

  A HUGE rise in the number of people facing homelessness in Leicester means the city council is facing extra budgetary pressures of up to £54million.