Leicester

More than 2,000 people have signed a petition opposing a proposed Tesco Express store in a former Barclays bank building.
People at the Clarendon Park Christmas Fair on Sunday joined the campaign...

A disagreement over who legally owns the remains of Richard III has broken out between Leicester City Council and the University of Leicester. Both parties are claiming they are the rightful...

Pairs of visitors can unravel a choice of mystery while indulging in a festive three-course set meal on the 6 or 12 December. Arriving at 6.30pm, 'whodunit' capers take on either a 'Strictly Come Killing' (usually £36.50 each) or 'Alice In Murderland' (£33 each) theme.

A consultant brought in by the city council to carry out a controversial review of supervised play session funding has been paid about £40,000 for five months work, it has been revealed. The...

Charlotte Hayden, a 22-year-old medical student, is cool, calm, and competent. She’s the sort of person you’d want running a hospital, or performing delicate surgery on your internal organs. Instead she’s teaching a class of 13-year-olds about sex.

More than 100 jobs look set to go at Leicester's children's centres by next April if plans to scale back some services are given the go-ahead, union leaders fear. The cuts form part of a...

A city councillor has quit Leicester's Labour group as she prepares to face a charge of perverting the course of justice in court. Councillor Barbara Potter told Labour colleagues she would be...

Leicester has failed in its bid to become UK City of Culture 2017, losing out to Hull.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller has just announced that the rival bid of the English contender has clinched the...

A playscheme boss has dubbed a report into potential changes to the city's adventure playgrounds "inaccurate and full of lazy assumptions". Leicester City Council spends £910,000 a...

A top judge has raised concerns that pupils at a school which is subject of a tug of war between its governing body and Leicester City Council have been forgotten amid the legal wranglings.
Governors...

I ran into Aatin Anadkat of Maiyango at last week's Winter Food Festival at Leicester Market. He was buzzing over the prospects for his business - "these last few weeks it's like I've had a shot of...

Sir Peter Soulsby has insisted Leicester City Council has a zero tolerance policy to fraud and corruption after being questioned about a police investigation into contracts worth millions of pounds....

Walmart workers went on strike in Miami, Tampa, and Sacramento ahead of promised actions on Black Friday.

By Heather Rawling -- Leicester National Union of Teachers (personal capacity) My heart sang when I saw and heard them. Children and young people, marching and singing and chanting and banging drum...

The trust behind Leicester's first Hindu primary school has announced plans to create a secondary. Avanti Schools Trust has confirmed it will be applying to the Department for Education to open the...

A widow has won a three-year battle to stay in her home after attempts by Leicester City Council to evict her were branded unlawful by the Court of Appeal. Mum-of-two Clare Shearer, 32, said she was...