Leicester

Jon Ashworth has challenged Education Secretary Nicky Morgan over the performance of a struggling Leicester academy. The Labour Leicester South MP raised the issue of Samworth Enterprise Academy...

Part of a former allotments site is being sold off by Leicester City Council for £4 million. The old St Mary's allotments plot off Saffron Lane has been disused for 20 years and has been...

A company has designed a tram network map for Leicester which features 22 stops on four different lines. The map, which was designed by Uplift Digital Marketing, has four lines named King Richard...

The company responsible for keeping Leicester's hospitals clean has been told it must make immediate improvements. The call follows changes introduced by the company, Interserve, in which catering...

Nick Rushton and Sir Peter Soulsby have taken control of the Leicestershire's fire authority saying they need to make it "fit for the 21st Century." The Conservative Leicestershire County...

The legal case that will determine the future of Snibston Discovery Museum will be heard just eleven days before the attraction is due to close. Campaigners have applied for a judicial review to...

East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin has said Leicester's De Montfort University "will have to ask itself some tough questions" over the honorary degree it awarded to Sepp Blatter. The Fifa...

Labour MP Keith Vaz has opened up about potential plans to honour Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan with a statue in Leicester! DESIblitz finds out more.

A new group is aiming to make life easier for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters of Leicester City Football Club. LCFC LGBT will be launched on June 11 at the King Power Stadium,...

A judge has granted permission for campaigners to launch a legal challenge to the closure of Snibston Discovery Museum. The Friends of Snibston (FoS) sought a judicial review of Leicestershire...

Debbie James is having a think, writes Jeremy Clay. She furrows her brow and gazes out her bookshop window, searching for inspiration in a rain-lashed Kibworth street. We're playing a quick game...

Mayoral pay and councillors' allowances in Leicester are set to be reviewed in the near future. City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has indicated the highly controversial issue is due for consideration but...

It's more than 60 years since trams last clattered through the streets of Leicester but now a company has drawn up a map of what a network would look like today. So could trams be making a return? ...

A newly elected Leicester councillor has been promoted to the position of assistant mayor. Kirk Master, who was elected for Labour to represent the Stoneygate ward last month, has been given a...

One of Leicester's assistant mayors has quit after just three weeks in the post. Councillor Lynn Senior was appointed to city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby's executive on May 20 but has today announced...

A collection of things seen posted, stuck, painted or written on various surfaces around Leicester....

Council housing rules in Leicester are to be changed to try to make sure social homes go to people that deserve them. The city council is to adjust the criteria for getting on its housing register...

More than 150 jobs have been lost at a Leicester printing business. Artisan Press, in Beaumont Leys, has been forced to make the mass lay-offs three weeks after going into administration. The...

The Asian media and people in Bangkok have widely condemned the actions of three
Leicester City players who were filmed taking part in an orgy with Thai women and racially abusing one of them.
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Leicester City Council's ruling Labour group has held votes to determine which of its members hold key posts designed to hold the city mayor and his executive team to account. The 50-stong group met...

Council bosses have stepped in to stop developers bulldozing a Victorian former hosiery factory in Leicester. The disused 19th century building in Oxford Street is set to be demolished by owners...

Three Leicester City players have been captured on film having an orgy with Thai women and racially abusing one of them. In the video, which was published by the Sunday Mirror, one player can be...

A student claims he and a group of friends were told by a bouncer they could not get into a Leicester nightclub because they were black. University of Leicester undergraduate Kosi Orah said they...

The programme of events for this year's Riverside Festival has been revealed. The two-day event takes place on the Mile Straight of the River Soar and at neighbouring Bede Park, Western Boulevard...