Those of you have been enjoying the Smokehouse pop-up might also be attracted to a special Rib Nights event being held on 3 May at The Parcel Yard. Based on US-style cook-offs between barbecue team...
Picket lines formed outside a number of schools and colleges this morning as strike action got underway throughout the city and county. Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) are striking...
Labour has called for Leicestershire County Council's lowest paid employees to be given a pay rise. Members of County Hall's Labour group want the Tory-led authority to introduce the living wage of...
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to change the name of Leicester's new plaza, Jubilee Square, to Peace Square. Sally Skyrme, of Thurnby Lodge, set up the petition because she believes the...
A 101-year-old woman has won the first round in a legal battle to save her care home. Amrutben Karia is campaigning to reverse Leicester City Council's decision to close Herrick Lodge, in Belgrave,...
Festival steering committee member Peter Flack extends a vote of thanks to people who helped organise Everybody's Reading 2013 (http://www.youtube.com/playli...
Campaigners are nearing 1,000 signatures on a petition aimed at triggering a referendum on scrapping Leicester's elected mayoral post. The Leicestershire Against The Cuts movement hopes to collect...
Police and councils are flying a rainbow flag outside their bases to show support for the gay community. The flag is flying outside Leicestershire Police headquarters in Enderby, County Hall in...
A pair of campaigners wearing only Bermuda shorts braved the winter weather outside Leicester Town Hall to make a point about fuel poverty and the threat of cold weather to old people. Lee Weston and...
Two sitting Labour councillors in Leicester have been deselected. The party has launched its process to choose its candidates in next year's election, where it will defend the 52 seats it won in...
A £75,000 sculpture commemorating the life, death and discovery of Richard III has been chosen to stand outside Leicester Cathedral. The artwork, entitled "Towards Stillness" will...
2Funky Arts created a documentary on the history of Leicester's Black music scene over 40 years. We covered singers, bands, DJ's, sound systems, musicians an...
Further strike action is due to take place at a city college tomorrow. Teachers belonging to Leicester's branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at Gateway Community College, in Hamilton, are...
Dozens of people demonstrated outside a job centre against the process which determines whether disabled people are fit for work. About 50 people attended the peaceful protest yesterday outside...
A photograph of a students' union officer with a 'blacked-up' face has sparked a row at the University of Leicester. Undergraduate officer Jay Appleyard is pictured with black make-up covering his...
Former Lord Mayor of Leicester Robert Wann has appeared in court charged with not having proper documentation for a shotgun. The Labour Leicester city councillor and former chairman of the...
Personally I'm very partial to whisky. Some other people, not so much. But for those who do appreciate the Uisge Beatha, a good tasting taste class is a hard idea to resist. And informal wine and s...
A controversial former deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council has been selected as a parliamentary candidate to fight the Bosworth seat for UKIP. David Sprason was sacked from the Conservative Party in January last year after it was revealed that he had been using his council laptop to view pornographic films. A ...
Leicester's city mayor has agreed to sell a £190,000 council owned property to a community group for £1. Sir Peter Soulsby has offered a deal to the Highfield's-based Pakistan Youth and...
A school is to become an academy, governors have decided after months of deliberations. Governors of Rushey Mead School, Leicester, said the decision was 'in the best interests' of the school. A move...
University staff staged their second two-hour walkout yesterday in a row over pay. Members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU) are striking against a 1 per cent pay increase, saying it...
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has told the vice-chancellor of De Montfort University that deducting a day's pay for a two-hour strike is "unfair". Mr Tatchell, who last week ...
Conservative-run County Hall is set to freeze its share of council tax next year by accepting a Government grant. The Tory administration at Leicestershire County Council had proposed to raise it by...
In 2014, much will be made of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. David Cameron has pledged to lead patriotic celebrations to remember Britain's role in "the war to end all...
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