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A centre that offers free welfare and legal advice to people is to lose more than £700,000 of its funding.The Community Legal Advice Centre (CLAC), in Charles Street, Leicester, is paid for by... 
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Fascist groups in Leicestershire have been attempting to divert anti-austerity sentiments into Islamophobic and racist campaigns against Muslims. The ‘Forgotten Estates’ group from Thurnby Lodge, Leicester have been posing as a community group which is simply concerned about lack of facilities and funding on the estate. Backed up by local newspaper, The Leicester Mercury, they have given the impression that they do not welcome links with members of racist and fascist organisations such as the English Defence League.
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Money saved by dismantling the big screen in the city centre should go on tree planting, environmentalists have suggested.Leicester City Council spends £105,000 a year maintaining and operating...
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At least six of Leicester's 16 secondary schools have asked for this summer's English GCSE papers to be re-marked.It follows an outcry from head teachers across the country after problems with this...
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Peter Barratt and Dorothy Board talk about why they gave the presentation on Alice Hawkins, the Leicester Suffragette (http://youtu.be/3AAls2sUZS4)..
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Review of the film which had its premiere in Leicester on Friday.
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An increase in tuition fees at English universities has led to more students considering studying abroad.Many European countries have no fees at all and, with a greater number now teaching courses...
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An Afghan man wounded in a roadside bomb attack while working as an interpreter for British forces is fighting for the right to settle in Leicester.The man, who has asked to be known only as...
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Mayor of Leicester Sir Peter Soulsby plans to create a Richard III museum and visitor centre after the discovery of remains which could be those of England's last Plantagenet king.He said a series...
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Family and friends attend a memorial service for Leicester suffragette Alice Hawkins, who was jailed five times.
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After the raging days of resistance, the left has become quiet, resigned and accepting.
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Many people love Leicester’s Phoenix cinema. Some complain that it’s not as homely as its old Upper Brown St location, others that it’s not as lively or comfortable a social spac...
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Thousands of trade unionists and anti-fascist activists are expected to protest against a planned EDL march in Walsall on Saturday.
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A judge has slammed prosecutors for failing to charge a knifeman with racism after he screamed vile abuse at worshippers outside a mosque.Jonathan Russell (32) waved a blade at two men on their way...
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Leicester's mayor, assistant mayors and other councillors were paid nearly £1 million in allowances and expenses last year.Details of the amounts claimed and paid to the politicians on...
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Leicester city council Labour group's whip says she has had to "have a word" with some of the party's members about their attendance levels at meetings.Councillor Barbara Potter, who is in...
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Unions are considering taking legal action against an engineering firm which made 222 workers redundant last week.Two thirds of the staff of 335 at Schlegel Automotive Europe, in Bardon Hill,...
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The Red Leicester Choir (http://redleicesterchoir.com/) gave this rendition of RAISE THE RAFTERS at the "Alice Hawkins: Leicester Suffragette" presentation.
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Poor old Castle Donny feels like a bit of a backwater – hidden away behind an airport, a racetrack and associated car parking and light industry. Once it had a certain Georgian stateliness. ...
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Union leaders have expressed anger after it was announced a food factory is to close, with the loss of 229 jobs.RF Brookes, of South Wigston, is expected to cease trading by the end of March next year...
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It is hard to imagine a more compelling case for asylum than that of the Afghan refugee featured on page eight today. Mohammad was injured in a Taliban bomb attack while working as an interpreter for...
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County Hall failed to properly consider whether children could safely walk to school before deciding to scrap free buses to save money, a watchdog has found.Leicestershire County Council has been...
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A film has been made paying tribute to the group of Leicestershire pitmen who stood alone in the county in support of the miners' strike during the 1980s.The documentary – The Story of the...
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G4S are an unfit company to operate in Leicester schools and colleges, where our children and young people attend.
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Scores of campaigners gathered at the city council offices to submit a petition opposing the handover of a former Scout hut to an Islamic charity.The group, calling itself the Committee for the...
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