Leicester

Panic buying continued at service stations in Leicestershire yesterday ahead of a threatened strike by fuel tanker drivers.Queues of cars were being reported throughout the day at forecourts across...

Police are to take part in a national vote on whether they should campaign for the right to strike.More than 2,000 Leicestershire officers will take part in a ballot to be organised by the Police...

The new salary level for the mayor of Leicester may not be set for over a year, Sir Peter Soulsby has said.The pay levels for the city's leader and his team may not become clear until up to 11 other...

A council-run outdoor education centre looks set to shut, with the loss of 22 jobs.Leicestershire County Council wants to close Quorn Hall and sell the building.The decision followed a...

London 2012 organisers have today revealed the route the Olympic torch will take on its once-in-a-lifetime journey.Men and women from Leicestershire and Rutland will be proud bearers of the historic...

A song celebrating a band of Leicestershire miners known as the Dirty Thirty is being released today.Folk-singer Alun Parry has penned lyrics about the handful of pitmen who risked the wrath of...

A woman who waged a malicious hate mail campaign against the former chief executive of Leicester City Council has been jailed for two years.Jennifer Johnson sent threatening and sinister letters to...

The cost of a proposed £4 million public square to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee has been called into question.Jubilee Square will be located at St Nicholas Place and feature...

A factory worker suffered serious head injuries when he became trapped in machinery.The 53-year-old print firm employee had to be freed by colleagues using bolt cutters.He is understood to be...

Three generations of a gypsy family have urged people to get to know the travelling community before making stereotyped judgements about them.The women – all born in Leicestershire – spoke...

Pupils starting at a Leicestershire academy school are to be given iPads as part of plans to update the curriculum.Humphrey Perkins High School, in Barrow-upon-Soar, will spend about £80,000...

Plans to create three traveller camps have gone back to the drawing board following a storm of public anger.Some 350 sites across Leicester are now being considered as potential alternatives to...

Leicestershire County Council leader David Parsons last night gave up his chauffeur-driven car after the Mercury revealed the cost of him and his office had topped £1 million over the past five...

Recently I’ve heard more widely diverging views about The Almanack than any other venue in Leicester – some love it, some have been disppointed.  It makes life a little difficult for ...

Ian Humphries, a Leicester EDL division member, has made it quite clear what the EDL’s position on Muslims is in a recent Facebook comment:

Council leader David Parsons and his office has cost taxpayers more than £1 million in expenses and allowances over the past five years.

Among the main costs for Leicestershire County Council was £210,000 since 2006 on a chauffeur-driven car, which regularly ferries Councillor Parsons around the UK, including to the grand prix in Silverstone and a theatre performance of the Little Mermaid, in Leicester.

In the latest in our series on drug use in Leicester, crime correspondent Ciaran Fagan looks at the debate around the legalisation of cannabis.


All this week the Leicester Mercury has asked the...