A new 75-mile (121km) walking trail has been opened in the National Forest after five years of preparation.
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These free training sessions are open to people who live or work in Leicester City and who haven’t already recieved 12 hours (2 days) support from the WISE programme, either through previous WISE training events or from one-to-one support provided by the programme 
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Union leaders are threatening universities with court action over deductions from staff pay. The University and College Union (UCU) said Leicester and De Montfort universities acted unlawfully by...
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May 17, 2014 6:21 AM
Always interested me why some employees are referred to as staff and others as worker perhaps some-one can enlighten me as to why and the reasoning behind this and why the word employees and employers cannot be used. To my simple mind staff is a long stick for beating or poking things so why some employees should be referred to as staff and others as workers is questionable to say the least or are ordinary workers a sub-species of employees to staff between employer and employee?
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Staff in Leicester are today continuing a 48-hour strike over Government proposals to part-privatise the Land Registry. The action, which began yesterday, by members of the Public and Commercial...
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A total of £9 million of schools' money has been transferred out of accounts with the Co-op Bank. Ninety schools in Leicester and the city council hold current accounts with the Co-op, which ...
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Over 100 people came out to support TREC lobby the Labour group at the Town Hall Square yesterday. Professor Gus John came to Leicester specially to voice his fears of what would happen to a city l...
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Former Tory county council leader David Parsons will stand for UKIP in the North West Leicestershire seat in next year's General Election. Mr Parsons, who joined the party in January, will take...
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Leicester Against The Cuts protestor Steve Score says we should get a vote on whether to keep the city's mayoral system.
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It sounds like a scene from It Happened Here, the low-budget movie which imagined an alternate history of a Britain conquered by the Nazis.
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Residents fear a popular library could be closed as part of a cost-cutting review of council buildings. Leicester City Council has said it needs to reorganise how it used its community properties in...
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A Labour councillor is planning to quit the party and stand for re-election as an independent. Leicester city councillor Barbara Potter has fallen out with senior party colleagues in the wake of...
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Secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, paid a visit to a county school yesterday, looking at the progress it has made since converting to an academy. The minister was at Limehurst Academy,...
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Union leaders have said they will ballot for strike action over plans to redesign the city's children's centres. Leicester's Unison branch is fighting against proposed changes by the city council...
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The DocFilm Network provides support to professionals and enthusiasts in the documentary making sector. It supports documentary projects through the provision of funding, personnel, venues and is a...
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An evening of arts and crafts, storytelling and balloon modelling proved a roaring success. More than 50 families dropped in at the event at Braunstone Open Learning Centre, in Cantrell Road,...
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Council bosses have scrapped plans to make controversial cuts to the funding of adventure playgrounds. The city council had previously announced it wanted to reduce the £910,000 it spends on...
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Work to transform a former hospital site into the city's first Sikh free school is expected to begin next month. Sikh community members behind the project said funding for Falcons Primary, in Gipsy...
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Hundreds of trades unionists and supporters were urged to fight to prevent further privatisation of NHS services. The call was made at a May Day rally in Leicester protesting over the Government's...
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Union members are to march against cuts to public spending. Leicester and District Trades Union Council has organised the march through the city centre on May 5. It will also celebrate...
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A parents' group is joining forces with union leaders to protest against plans to reorganise the Leicester's children's centres. A mass buggy push is planned on April 30 which will end outside the...
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ONE OF the UK’s longest established race equality organisations is under threat of closure following proposed budget cuts. Leicester’s Race Equality Centre (TREC), which was founded in 1967, faces the prospects of a huge cut in funding after the city’s mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, announced plans to review how voluntary and community groups in the city are funded.
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Labour councillors are to reject a proposed 1 per cent increase in their allowances. Members of the party's group on Charnwood Borough Council said it would not be appropriate to take a raise,...
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A Tory MP who had previously called for a no confidence vote in David Cameron's leadership of the party has said he is now backing the prime minister in order to avoid the "horrific consequences" of an Ed Miliband led Labour government. North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen has been one of the most outspoken Tory critics of the prime minister and had called for him to be replaced.
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The head teacher at a troubled city school has resigned following months of controversy. Tim Luckcock was suspended from Uplands Junior, in Highfields, in September as a "neutral act"...
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A roofing company has been fined after a worker fell more than five metres through a fragile roof light fitting.
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