Leicester

The Greens have launched their city council election campaign in Leicester by announcing their first candidates. The party has chosen three hopefuls to stand in the Castle ward, that covers most of...

Nature lovers may enjoy a stay at a traditional 19th century hotel in the market town of Loughborough

The Ministry of Justice has ditched controversial plans to build a road across a Leicester park. The Government wanted to run a temporary route across Eyres Monsell Park so construction lorries...

The bosses of an inner city community centre and Leicester's mayor Sir Peter Soulsby remain at loggerheads over its future funding. Sir Peter says Leicester City Council can no longer afford the...

Charnwood MP Stephen Dorrell has defended himself after a doctor called on him to quit. In an attack on the front page of the Daily Mirror today cancer specialist Clive Peedell attacked the...

More heritage panels are to be put up around the city to tell people about Leicester's history. About 40 of the panels were erected in August with information about key historic buildings...

Government plans for a secure college at Glen Parva have suffered a setback after city councillors refused permission for it to build a temporary road across a park. The Ministry of Justice has been...

Plans to spend up to £5,000 to give city council staff 'a gift' of water bottles and pedometers have been criticised. Leicester City Council wants to buy 3,500 branded water bottles and 3,500...

More than 160 workers at an engineering firm have been holding strike action in protest over an "insulting" 2p-an-hour pay offer. Shopfloor staff at Trelleborg, in Beaumont Leys,...

Pop singer Paul Heaton is playing a concert in Leicester while backing a call for better pay and conditions for staff at Next. The tour by the former singer in The Housemartins and the Beautiful...

A planning inspector will this week consider whether to overturn Leicester City Council's decision to refuse Tesco permission to open a new store in Clarendon Park. The firm wants to convert a...

A University of Leicester student from Paris was behind Sunday's show of unity in the city for the victims of last week's terrorist attacks in France. More than 150 people joined a rally at The...

A campaigner against the use of military drones has been charged with criminal damage after a wire was cut at an RAF base. Penny Walker, 64, from Leicester, is one of four members of the protest...

Councillors will meet tomorrow to demand answers over a surface coal mine's failure to pay instalments on cash promised to restore the site. Harworth Estate, formerly the property...

Golfers say they are furious and disappointed at the decision to close Leicester's municipal Western Park Club. City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has confirmed the 18-hole course will shut next year. ...

A senior Labour Leicester city councillor is standing down from her current seat. Councillor Vi Dempster has represented the Beaumont Leys ward for nearly ten years but has confirmed she will not be...

Leicester's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Centre is set to receive a £20,000 cash injection from the city council after it reported facing financial difficulties....

Tesco has removed a sign which referred to a superhero alarm clock as a "gift for a boy" from its stores after a complaint from a seven-year-old girl.

What job comes with a high chance of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, an increasing workload, sights most people will run from and the chance of violence every day? You'll be surprised I'm not talking...

Unison has collected more than 400 names on a petition opposing County Hall's cost-cutting plans to offload village libraries to volunteers or parish councils. Conservative-led Leicestershire County...

Angelina Jolie baffles Hollywood audiences with an East Midlands greeting, while presenting an award to Derby actor Jack O'Connell.

A former teacher at a city primary school has been awarded just over £49,000 by an employment tribunal for constructive and unfair dismissal. Samina Randall brought the case against...