Leicester

Businesses are to meet to discuss child poverty in Leicester and how it affects their employment needs.The meeting will take place today and has been organised by Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce...

Voters were today being given a chance to cast judgement on the way Labour has run Leicester for the past two years.A by-election in Abbey ward is the first city council poll since Labour's ...

Areprint of a 1958 article in the Mercury referred to a Sunday morning Speakers' Corner, in the Market Place. Orators from different persuasions would regale onlookers with their particular truth...

Police are to hold an online question and answer session on the issues of domestic violence within gay relationships.
The 'webchat' is Leicestershire Police's latest attempt to uncover the scale of...

Former city assistant mayor Mohammed Dawood has been appointed to a key post scrutinising Sir Peter Soulsby's decisions.Councillor Dawood was Leicester City Council's cabinet member for adult social...

A park in the grounds of a former mental hospital has been officially opened.Towers Park is made up of three hectares of the former Towers Hospital land, in Victoria Road East.Leicester City Council...

Prince Edward is set to visit the city and county On June 7.
The trip has been rescheduled after being cancelled in January due to bad weather.
The Earl of Wessex will officially open De Montfort...

Leicester's deputy mayor should stand down to focus on his campaign to become a Member of the European Parliament, according to a former city council leader.Councillor Rory Palmer announced earlier...

A UKIP local election candidate was suspended yesterday after The Sunday Times exposed his support for the far-right English Defence League (EDL).

Most of a £680,000 fund to spruce up shopping areas in Leicester remains unspent.The Gateway Retail Area Improvement Scheme was part of city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby's 100 Day programme after...

Labour has convincingly won the first Leicester City Council election since 2011.
Yesterday voters in the city's Abbey ward went to the polls for a by-election to choose a new councillor after the...

Quarry giant Lafarge has said there will be redundancies in Leicestershire as part of a shake-up of the business following its £2 billion merger with rival Tarmac.It comes after the French-owned...

Parents of pupils at a primary school have joined staff in calling for its head teacher to resign following claims of poor leadership.Employees at Uplands Junior, in Highfields, have called on...

A councillor who was suspended from Leicester City Council's Labour group because of his poor attendance at meetings has returned to the party ranks.Councillor Iqbal Desai was asked to resign from the...

Police and crime commissioner Sir Clive Loader is putting together a panel of young people to help guide him and the force.
Leicestershire is the first force in the country to create a 'youth...

The idea of fair trade has been at the forefront of ethical business practice for years.Many mainstream supermarkets now sell things like fair trade fruit in response to customers' demands.Just Fair...