Leicester

Controversial proposals to pedestrianise part of Leicester city centre have been temporarily withdrawn after a planning inspector raised concerns about them.
A public inquiry started yesterday to...

Sikhs in Leicestershire reacted with shock and anger today after evidence emerged that the British Government colluded in the notorious massacre at the Golden Temple of Amritsar 30 years ago.
Prime...

Boris Johnson has come under fire over London Underground
ticket office closures from an unlikely source – a station’s information board.

A medieval house in the heart of historic Leicester could be turned into a five-star boutique hotel, a council leader has revealed. Castle House is used infrequently as lodgings for High Court...

Environmental campaigners have launched a survey aimed at cutting the number of cars on Leicester's roads, in a bid to cut air pollution Friends of the Earth members are collecting information from...

The Co-op has lodged an appeal over the rejection of its plan to site a crematorium and burial ground next to a primary school.
The scheme in Great Glen was turned down last month by Harborough...

Kirk Jones was among 32 men handed immediate or suspended prison sentences for violent disorder

A train driver had to lock himself in his cab after a passenger threatened him.
The passenger turned violent when the driver told him the train did not go to his destination.
British Transport Police...

Work is well under way on the creation of an £11 million headquarters for Leicester City Council. Builders are overhauling Attenborough House, in Charles Street, to create a base for ...

About 30 teachers at Gateway Community College, in Hamilton, formed a picket line this morning as strike action got underway.
They were among about 60 teachers who work at the college and belong to...

Our survey said... you may live, work or play in Leicester, but do your perceptions of it match reality? Peter Warzynski carried out a snap poll...

You might think you have a good grasp of...

Governors at a primary school in special measures are considering proposals to convert it into an academy with the help of a sponsor. Mowmacre Hill Primary, in Tedworth Green, Leicester, was...

More than £22 million of Government, European Union and lottery cash was secured last year for transport and regeneration schemes in Leicester. Officials at Leicester City Council said they...

About 200 people attended a meeting to tell Tesco they did not want a new supermarket in Clarendon Park, Leicester.


The company has said it plans to take on Sainsbury's and the Co-op by opening a...

Indian restaurant Kayal was in the news for all the wrong reasons last year, but don't be put off visiting - the food is imaginative and vibrant

A further 700 jobs will be lost, on top of 600 that have already gone in the past three years, as part of county council proposals to save £110million from its budgets by 2018.
Voluntary groups...