Leicester

The Government set to push through plans to turn a troubled Leicester junior school into an academy. The Department for Education is to impose an academy order on Uplands Junior School in Highfields...

Former Leicester City Council leader Ross Willmott has re-entered the election race having been previously de-selected as a candidate. Councillor Willmott, currently the Labour member for the Rushey...

Councillors voted today not to reconsider the decision to close Snibston Discovery Museum. Leicestershire County Councillors voted by a majority of 28 to 24 not to pass a motion to give more time to...

The Phoenix cinema will be rolling our the red carpet for the Midlands premiere of a film made in Leicester. Beverley, a 25-minute film by film producer and former football hooligan Cass Pennant,...

Leicester City Council has published a list of its highest earning officials. The council is required to put the information in the pubic domain and has released the figures after approving its...

There are 22 lost playing fields in Leicestershire which campaigners are trying to locate and reclaim. The nationwide #FieldFinders initiative has been set up to identify and protect more than 900...

Firefighters in Leicestershire have started a 24-hour strike. They walked out from 7am today in the latest strike about changes to pensions and other working conditions. Representatives of the...

A Labour council candidate who allegedly posted a comment on Facebook in support of the British National Party appears to be in video footage of one of the organisation's celebrations. Teresa...

A Leicester Labour candidate is alleged to have posted a comment on Facebook saying she would vote for the British National Party, it has emerged. Teresa Aldred has been selected by Labour to...

An iconic symbol of Leicester's industrial past and radical working class traditions has been given listed-building status following a campaign to preserve it. The former Boot and Shoe Operatives...

Conservative-run County Hall has set out a 'chilling' prediction of how it services will be slashed back after it has cut £120 million from its spending. The authority has warned, in four...

The Tories have selected a De Montfort University lecturer to stand as their mayoral candidate in Leicester. Dr Paul Bremner was chosen to face Labour's Sir Peter Soulsby in May's election at the...

A union has questioned De Montfort University vice-chancellor Dominic Shellard's 23 per cent pay rise - which took his salary to £235,000. Latest published figures show Professor...

Leicester is a proudly multi-racial city, which has a long history of actively opposing racism. Obviously no-one would argue that there are no racial tensions, but what is clear is that many of the...

Protestors took to the streets of Leicestershire to deliver their message about the NHS. Members of the campaign group 38 Degrees urged shoppers in Leicester and Market Harborough to sign a petition...

Leicester Prison is in the top 10 of the country's most overcrowded prisons. A new report by the Howard League for Penal Reform states that the prison in Welford Road, Leicester, was designed to...

There have been three failed attempts to sue Leicester City Council for compensation for slip and trips in the city's new Jubilee Square. Work on the £4 million public space in St Nicholas'...

The Islamist sect that ran the Afghan government for five years has now turned its attention to running a whiplash insurance scam in Leicester, a Ukip official has claimed.

Councillors are tonight set to vote to increase council tax and rents while endorsing further cuts to spending on services. The Labour-run authority is proposing to raise its share of council tax...

Five people spent a night sleeping outdoors near to the clock tower to raise money and awareness about homelessness. The group left their warm homes last Thursday, which was a rainy and cold...

Concerns have been raised about trees being cut down as part of a £100,000 revamp of Leicester's Town Hall Square. Leicester City Council have recently removed a dozen plum and cherry trees...

A cash-strapped centre supporting gay and transgender people has been pledged enough funding to keep it open for the first half of this year. Leicester LGBT Centre, which has been in the city for 38...

Dozens of people are objecting to a plan to demolish 'unsafe' properties built in the early 1800s in Belgrave Gate, Leicester. However the owners of 122 to 132 Belgrave Gate have not told Leicester...

The Government will not allow Leicestershire and Rutland's fire authority to add a one off charge of £5 to every household's council tax bill. The authority wanted special permission to levy...