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More than 150 people representing businesses and organisations answered mayor Sir Peter Soulsby's call to get behind Leicester's UK City of Culture bid.In two briefing sessions at Curve this week,... 
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Friends and colleagues have praised the life and work of a former Lord Mayor of Leicester, who has died at the age of 74.
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Voters will go to the polls next month to decide who will represent them on a town council.Four candidates will contest the vacant Holywell Ward seat on Ashby Town Council on Thursday May 2 –...
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A former soldier shot while serving in Northern Ireland and his wife, who has breast cancer, say they should not have to pay more for the second bedroom in their council bungalow.Keith and Julie Foyle...
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At least £10 million of public cash will be needed to stage a UK City of Culture programme, according to the Government.Leicester is one of 11 areas hoping to successfully bid for the title,...
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County Hall's Tory administration has approved plans to spend an extra £1 million on road maintenance – after rejecting a Liberal Democrat proposal to do exactly the same thing.The county...
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The city council's eight care homes for the elderly are set to be closed or sold.Under the authority's proposed plans, which were released yesterday, three homes are set to be shut by the end of the...
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Nearly 50 food banks will be up and running by the end of June – double the number that were open a year ago.The Fareshare project now has 35 food banks around the county, compared with 22...
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Celebrity atheists are being asked to help pay for the renovation of a society's headquarters.Members of Leicester Secular Society are writing to 40 well-known people, including Richard Dawkins and...
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12 noon at the Workers Memorial Tree, Leicester Town Hall Square.
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For those of us who care about living standards Monday of this week, 1 April, was no joke. April Fools’ Day it may have been but for people on the receiving end of the government’s savage clobbering of the welfare system that day will have very real consequences.
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The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) had to fire all the staff at its Berlin headquarters due to money worries - and cancelled a party conference after a municipal authority refused to stop building works near its chosen venue.
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Leaked documents containing information about secret offshore accounts and tax havens are causing headaches for business people and politicians from Canada to the Philippines.
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Police and crime commissioner Sir Clive Loader visited an inner-city estate yesterday as part of his efforts to get to know people across Leicestershire.Sir Clive, the former RAF Air Chief Marshal...
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The principal of Leicester's first free school has left after less than two years in the post.Christopher Spall took up the job at Krishna Avanti Primary, in Spencefield Lane, Evington, when the...
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The Tories yesterday launched their county council election manifesto stating Labour were their main opposition ahead of next month's vote.Conservative council leader Nick Rushton told candidates,...
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Former Leicester City Council chief executive Sheila Lock has a new job in Wales.Ms Lock has been appointed the interim director of children's services at Cardiff Council.She was made redundant from...
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The final list of candidates for a city council by-election has been published.
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A charity for elderly people has said it would like to see guarantees put in place to protect residents in council-owned care homes before they are sold off.Yesterday, Leicester City Council announced...
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A statue of city suffragette Alice Hawkins is set to be put up at Leicester Market, where she delivered many of her speeches aiming to win women the right to vote.It comes after a campaign by people...
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Questions have been raised about Conservative county council leader Nick Rushton's decision to miss a key meeting at County Hall next week with an election looming.Councillor Rushton is on an...
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A protest group fighting Sir Peter Soulsby's plans to develop authorised traveller sites is to challenge Labour at a council by-election.Terry McGreal, from the LE4 Action Group, announced he would...
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"Hate Crime and the Criminal Justice System" was the topic of an open meeting hosted by the Leicester Council of Faiths recently (http://equalitydiversityoff...
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Launched in February after two years of planning, the British Democratic Party has finally made it onto an election ballot paper. The BDP is standing two candidates in Leicestershire.
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Thousands of Government workers will go on strike this afternoon in a protest over redundancies, pay cuts and changing terms and conditions.
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