December 2025

• Free and low-cost fun in Leicester this Christmas

  10 December 2025

  4 minute read

  IDEAS for family fun that won’t break the bank this Christmas have been put together by Leicester City Council.

• Waste collection changes over Christmas and New Year

  10 December 2025

  1 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council will be making changes to its regular waste and recycling collection days over the two weeks of Christmas and New Year.

• Winners of the Leicester Open announced

  4 December 2025

  2 minute read

  THE WINNER of the prestigious Attenborough Award at this year’s Open exhibition has been announced.

• Plan your journey to Leicester city centre this Christmas

  4 December 2025

  3 minute read

  VISITORS to Leicester are being invited to make the most of the city’s sustainable travel options as they plan their journeys during the festive season.

• Light Up Leicester festival wins second national award

  3 December 2025

  3 minute read

  AN ambitious festival that lit up Leicester city centre with extraordinary artworks over four nights earlier this year has won a major national award.

• Winter shelter to offer more emergency accommodation

  1 December 2025

  2 minute read

  A CHURCH in Leicester city centre is being equipped to provide emergency accommodation over the winter, to ensure no-one has to sleep rough when temperatures dip.     

• Community champions remembered in new heritage panel

  1 December 2025

  2 minute read

  A LEICESTER couple who dedicated their lives to improving the New Parks estate for the people who live there have been commemorated in a new heritage panel.