One of the most senior editors in Northcliffe Media has today quit after two and a half years in the role.
Leicester Mercury boss Keith Perch is standing down with immediate effect and will leave the business today, it was announced this afternoon.
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Had a nice chat this morning with Nigel and Zoe Brady, owners of a new fishmongers on Stoneygate's Allandale Road. Zoe is a local, Nigel a Dubliner with a background that varies from butchery t... 
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Some weekends really make you feel that, despite everything, it really is worth perservering through this vale of tears. This has been one such.
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Leicester's hospitals could lose out on cash for treating patients because of changes in how compensation cases are dealt with, it has emerged.
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Leicestershire County Council has made £2.2 million profit out of its part in helping to rescue Britain's crisis-hit banks at the height of the credit crunch.
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Have your say on the future of Leicester City Council’s residential care homes from 4th July until 26th September 2011.
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September 23, 2011 12:06 PM
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Despite major jobs losses and cutbacks to services, Sir Peter Soulsby has ruled out reducing the number of city councillors. Adam Wakelin asks whether the mayor has misjudged the...
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We are pleased to announce The Race Equality Centre’s public lectures to commemorate Black History Season, 2011.
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September 21, 2011 12:15 PM
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A travelling family which controversially won the right to live on the edge of a village in Rutland has had permission to stay there extended by a year.
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September 21, 2011 12:06 PM
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In the long history of Government blunders in the handling of major projects, the saga over a planned new fire control system for England really is one of the worst. The plan was to replace...
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September 20, 2011 3:52 PM
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...Now, independent investigator Jon Wigmore has been signed up by the council, and is due to report his findings by November.
City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: "It is important this issue is investigated thoroughly and that a decision is made based on the facts.
Mr Wigmore charges £375 a day and is expected to take around 15 days to complete his probe...
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September 18, 2011 2:46 AM
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An MP has welcomed a ban on rollover contracts for phone landline and broadband customers.
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October 8, 2011 3:27 PM
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Cycle lanes are being created as the latest phase of a £3 million road improvement scheme.
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Just spent an entertaining lunchtime watching the Leicestershire Cook-Off, a project prompted by Leicester City Centre management body Le-One and designed to come up with a signature dish for the ...
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September 28, 2011 11:20 AM
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An up-and-coming new youth group is making plans for a multicultural celebration at Phoenix Square.
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September 28, 2011 11:02 AM
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Hundreds of call centre workers who had feared for their future have been told their jobs are safe.
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A few months back I wrote an enthusiastic review of Paddy's for Great Food magazine, but somehow I don't seem to have written the place up here. After another first rate meal there this week...
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September 25, 2011 1:37 PM
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Leicester City Council has used legal powers to block a request from a member of the public for details about Braunstone Hall.
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September 23, 2011 1:28 PM
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Sunday 2 October. TUC is organising a march and rally to show opposition to the Coalition Government's disastrous policies of pay freezes, cuts and attacks on public services that are producing rising unemployment, cuts in living standards and...
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September 23, 2011 11:44 AM
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Earlier this year I asked readers to keep their eyes open and file reports of spottings of Sven around the restaurants of Leicestrshire. You all let me down badly on that one but we'll let that ...
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Six more schools in Leicestershire have said they are interested in becoming academies.
Five are Catholic primaries in the city and county. The other is Humphrey Perkins High School, in Barrow upon Soar.
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September 21, 2011 12:10 PM
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A councillor breached election law by having a "thank you" message published in a parish magazine ahead of polling day.
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September 20, 2011 3:55 PM
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Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has ruled out cutting the number of city councillors.
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We are pleased publish our local advert to promote HIV testing, at our location in Leicester Town Centre, on Regent Road. This advert speaks with 15 language...
