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Scrapping Leicestershire's seven district councils would help save money, according to one of the county's leading Tory politicians.Leicestershire County Council leader Nick Rushton has... 
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The family behind Leicestershire's biggest manufacturing company paid themselves £12.29 million last year.Samworth Brothers, the Melton food giant which owns the Ginsters brand and Dickinson...
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The county's chief fire officer was forced to lead a makeshift crew during today's strike after a blaze broke out at a primary school.
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Members of the Richard III Society withdraw funding meant for the king's tomb at Leicester Cathedral because they are unhappy with the design.
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A £36,000 computer- generated 3D map of Leicester is to be created.Officials are to commission the interactive virtual re-creation of a large expanse of the city to help them visualise major...
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A much-loved toy shop is set to disappear from the city centre, the latest victim of intense competition from online and supermarket rivals.Dominoes Toys yesterday lost its struggle to stay afloat...
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The number of city councillors in Leicester will stay the same, it has been announced.However, ward boundaries are set to change.It follows a review by the Boundary Commission for England, which...
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Protesters yesterday scaled the walls of the Town Hall to hang banners criticising mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and opposing the bedroom tax.The signs were attached to a flagpole and a balcony on...
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Campaigners wanting a better deal for disabled people have highlighted the case of a Leicester man who spent two nights sleeping outside after being evicted for allegedly abusing his neighbours.
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Police are investigating rape threats against a journalist who campaigned for more women to appear on banknotes.
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A campaign has been launched to try to preserve a historic college building as a seat of learning.Leicester Civic Society has expressed "grave concern" at plans announced by the University...
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Education officials are to issue a formal warning notice to the governing body of a junior school.
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HUNDREDS of hospital workers staged a rally outside the Greek Health Ministry in Athens last Thursday morning against the planned closure by the coalition government of about 12 hospitals in the capital during the summer.
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A £2 million pot of funding has been created to help Leicester's small and medium-sized businesses.New businesses can apply for between £1,000 and £5,000 from the city council's...
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Four members of staff suspended from a Leicester primary school have been reinstated.The two teachers and two teaching assistants from Uplands Junior, in Highfields, were suspended by the board...
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The Government was accused of playing fast and loose with Britain’s energy security last night after Centrica finally lost patience with its refusal to offer subsidies to bolster the country’s gas supplies and pulled out of a deal to build two...
G. L. Taylor's comment,
September 25, 2013 7:03 AM
This attitude from Centrica is typical of modern business practice they cry and cry to governments that they must be able to access freely set their prices, manipulating the market by fencing supplier’s prices from consumers, pay immorally high salaries to directors and senior management, whilst imposing and insisting governments force austerity on ordinary people. Is there no leading business person that as morality above self-interest. Can they not see their duplicity and greedy behaviour, if unchecked will sink their beloved capitalist system that they so worship and make so much money out of?
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A man was poisoned by fumes from a petrol generator he put in his flat after his electricity was disconnected during freezing weather.Michael Hirrell, 48, was overcome by carbon monoxide, from the...
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A campaign group has been launched to try to tackle air pollution.The Leicester branch of Friends of the Earth has joined other environmental groups to try to encourage more people to use public...
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Schools across Leicester and Leicestershire could be forced to shut next month when teaching staff strike.Two major unions announced the action yesterday as part of a joint campaign against pension...
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Volunteers who laid down their lives fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War will be remembered in a ceremony in Leicester later this month.Hundreds of British men such as Roy Watts, Fred Sykes and...
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Construction work is set to start next week on a controversial project to create a new £4 million public square for Leicester.
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Workers at the Zarfati Garage, residents of the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority, joined The Independent Trade Union Centre MAAN (known formally in English as WAC) and began organizing to put an end to decades of exploitation.
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A campaigner aiming to raise money for the son of murdered soldier Lee Rigby met the serviceman's widow yesterday.Suresh Chauhan, who is aiming to collect £120,000 for the two-year-old, met...
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Campaigners mounted an 11th-hour protest against a grandmother being deported to Zimbabwe.An outspoken critic of the Mugabe regime, Evenia Mawongera fears she will be in danger if she is put on a...
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A parcel firm has been granted planning permission to build a £100 million distribution hub employing 1,000 people.DPD was given the go-ahead for a 330,000 sq ft development at Hinckley...
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