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They might be just three miles away from each other but the city council and county councils are worlds apart when it comes to budgets. While city councillors fretted over how to protect some of the... 
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Leicester City Council bid for £5m in government funding in an effort to reduce congestion and improve services for bus passengers in the city centre.
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Dozens of schools could be forced to shut next month if further strike action is taken by teachers in a row over pensions.The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is surveying members on industrial...
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Four life-size bronze soldiers are to be placed outside Leicestershire County Council's headquarters as a permanent memorial to those who have lost their lives in conflict.The sculpture, which...
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Inspectors have called on the prisons minister to act on the "poor state" of accommodation at Glen Parva Young Offenders' Institute.In its latest annual report for 2010-11, the institute's...
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Leicester has become Britain's CCTV capital with more than 2,000 cameras now monitoring the city, new research shows.The city council has spent £3.7 million on new cameras over the past three...
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The race to become elected police chief has gathered pace, with a batch of politicians putting themselves forward.Until now two people – senior Conservative county councillor Nick...
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A council has been accused of stalling on plans to fit solar panels which would help tenants with fuel bills.
Melton Borough Council's community and social affairs committee has deferred a..."
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A charity which won £1,000 thanks to Leicester Mercury readers is urging them to nominate others for the same cash boost.In 2010 the Open Hands Trust, a Highfields group which supports...
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The number of people on Jobseekers' Allowance in the city and county rose by more than 1,200 last month, according to figures released today.The claimaint count increased by 1,276 in January to...
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Leicester’s Green Light Festival organisers have today launched a challenge to aspiring entrepreneurs to come forward with low carbon or environmentally friendly business ideas.
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Do you know of a charity or community group that could do with a boost?Let us know, and they could be in with a chance of winning £1,000.The Leicester Mercury has once again teamed up with the...
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Low income families with parents in part time work could lose about £4,000 a year because of a change in tax credits, Labour says.
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Hundreds of people have applied for just 35 jobs at a new supermarket in Leicester.Tesco, which is opening one of its new Express stores in Melton Road, Belgrave, this spring, revealed it had...
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The recent march of the EDL through Leicester raised a number of concerns in Leicester for communities and Branch members. As employees of Leicestershire Police Authority it is sometimes difficult ...
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Last-minute changes to the city council's budget proposals will see a reprieve for elderly care homes, a teen pregnancy service saved and cuts to city wardens reduced.Labour councillors met on Monday...
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Both the city and county councils passed their austerity budgets yesterday.Leicestershire County Council voted to cut £74 million from its budget over the next four years, and cut 1,000...
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You had to wonder and at the same time be extremely concerned about mass kettles and any rights to free assembly and movement suspended on the 4th of February 2012 in Leicester. The police used t...
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign have made urgent representations to the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary calling on them to personally intervene to save the life of Khader Adnan, who is now on his 65th day of a hunger strike in Israeli detention.
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A public sector union says Leicester City Council should not be building up its cash reserves while services suffer cuts.In its official response to city council budget proposals for the next...
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In my last article (First Person, January 5) I was optimistic about relations between religions and beliefs.I had been meeting more people with different beliefs and had seen children from different...
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The number of people sleeping rough in Leicester more than doubled last year, according to latest homelessness figures.Leicester City Council statistics show 50 people were classed as sleeping...
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Young black and Asian people in Leicester have called on the police to get to know them better.The message comes after the latest figures show that while Leicestershire officers' use of stop and...
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MP Keith Vaz and Leicestershire Chief Constable Simon Cole are to meet Government minister Nick Herbert to discuss the cost of policing last weekend's English Defence League march.As previously...
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