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Council bosses are looking to bring in new restrictions on landlords intending to turn properties into student houses.Leicester City Council is considering an Article 4 direction, which would require... 
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Leicestershire Police has released further details of proposed cuts to police stations' opening hours.The force believes it can save about £500,000 a year by limiting public access to its...
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More sad news for Leicester in that Entropy is set to close on 19 July. Tom Cockerill (below, having prepared a South Devon steak and smoked oyster pie just for me - smug grin) said earlier this ye...
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Leicestershire County Council has recruited a new £115,700 director of environment and transport.
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Representatives from the local arts and business communities were invited to a private reception at The Guildhall to mark the annual Spark children's festival.This year's event ran from May 29 until...
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A leading Labour councillor has clashed with city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby over abandoned plans for Leicester's former main post office.Sir Peter ditched a project to convert the Bishop Street property...
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All state-funded schools should be open to all children regardless of their parents' religion. Seems obvious when stated like that, doesn't it? Taxpayers from across the belief spectrum pay for our...
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Police sniffed out a cannabis factory after officers wound down their car windows to escape the effects of what they thought to be a colleague's flatulence.The officers, who were on a burglary...
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AFTER years of fighting to keep services alive for elderly folk in the borough, the Hinckley and Bosworth Pensioners Action Group (PAG) is calling it a day.
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Nearly £11 million is to be spent creating a new City Hall in Leicester, it has been revealed.
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The Leicester Mercury is joining forces with the Big Lottery Fund to award a total of £250,000 of lottery funding to good causes and community projects.If your school, charity or group has a...
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What type of people spend £85,000 + VAT for seven days of therapy? The answer is millionaires... of which Leicestershire appears to have more than its fair share. And the ludicrously expensive ther...
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Councils are assessing the consequences of the Chancellor's announcement of a 10 per cent cut in their budgets.George Osborne unveiled plans to cut spending by £11.5 billion in 2015-16 ...
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Plans to create a major office district near Leicester railway station could be back on track after regeneration bosses secured a multi-million-pound cash boost.The agency charged with growing the...
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Police have charged a 17-year-old boy with an alleged vandalism attack at an Islamic centre.
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A school could benefit from a £1 million renewable energy project to heat its buildings.Green Fox Community Energy Co-operative is launching the project to install wood-chip boilers at John...
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This smart new £13 million building is costing you – the taxpayer – £5,000 every day, even though it sits empty four years after it was constructed.Situated on an industrial...
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There has been a surge in the number of people being taken to court for not paying their council tax, officials say.Leicester City Council has had to issue 7,147 people with summonses to appear...
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The Local Government Boundary Commission for England are doing an electoral review of Leicester City.
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Colleen Molloy - a volunteer with Leicester City of Sanctuary (http://www.cityofsanctuary.org/leicester) - talks about the series of events that are taking p...
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Tuesday 25 June, 7pm at Highfield Community Centre, Melbourne Road, Leicester
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Traders in the St Martin's area of the city say new traffic plans will destroy their businesses and ruin its character.The city council has announced proposals it says will attract more shoppers...
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president ,who was sentenced to life in prison in 1964 because of his fight against apartheid, has died. He will be remembered as an inspiring freedom fighter.
Leicester Worker's insight:
Seeking confirmation
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The mayor's visit to a school to promote the city of culture bid was thrown off topic slightly when he was quizzed by pupils about the closure of a children's activity centre.Pupils at St Thomas More...
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