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Leicester Worker
July 22, 2011 7:35 AM
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Hundreds of people are expected to enjoy an inaugural community festival this weekend.
Highfields Festival 2011, tomorrow and Sunday, will feature local acts, groups and a fair.
Organisers are hoping the festival, at the Highfields Centre, will become an annual event.
Several organisations will have stalls and there will be a jobs fair with advice on work and vacancies.
Organiser Saqib Deshmukh said he was hoping for good weather and that about 1,000 people would attend.
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Leicester Worker
July 22, 2011 7:26 AM
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People living in the Leicester East constituency are four times more likely to have no qualifications than people in Loughborough, according to new research.
Data released today by the University and College Union, reveals 20.9 per cent of people in the Leicester East area have no qualifications, such as GCSEs, A-levels or NVQs, compared to 5.4 per cent in Loughborough. In Leicester West, 18.2 per cent of people have no qualifications and in Leicester South the figure is 15.2 per cent.
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Leicester Worker
July 22, 2011 7:06 AM
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Share and watch videos about Leicester on LeicesterTube.co.uk...
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Leicester Worker
July 21, 2011 1:06 PM
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The Government spends about £111 million a year on Remploy, which operates factories that hire disabled people, but the company is making a loss.
Board members arriving at the Remploy headquarters in Meridian Park, Leicester, were greeted by about a dozen employees waving placards yesterday morning.
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Leicester Worker
July 21, 2011 12:50 PM
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An MP has called on the Government to ensure changes made to funding for English language training does not disadvantage low-income families.
Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth spoke out after ministers said they would "target" funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses on those in "greatest need".
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Leicester Worker
July 20, 2011 12:21 PM
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Festivals in Leicester this summer.
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Leicester Worker
July 20, 2011 12:02 PM
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The number of parents taken to court in Leicestershire over their children's truancy has risen by 60%, according to official figures.
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Leicester Worker
July 20, 2011 6:54 AM
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A SMARTPHONE app that lets members of the public quickly report local grotspots to Leicester City Council is being extended to cover highway faults such as broken street lights, potholes and blocked street gullies.
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Leicester Worker
July 20, 2011 6:12 AM
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Plans for a multi-million pound waste treatment plant in Leicestershire are set to be dropped by the county council.
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Leicester Worker
July 19, 2011 5:04 PM
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Most of you I’m sure are aware of the Everybody’s Reading festival that took place last year is happening again. There are going to be dozens of events this year and many stories from our Story Cafes. A few minutes ago we published the first of what we hope are dozens of blog posts from contributors telling the world what their favourite book is or what reading has done for them.
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Leicester Worker
July 22, 2011 7:30 AM
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Leicestershire's county councillors were paid nearly £900,000 in allowances last year.
Figures released yesterday show 57 politicians at County Hall received £881,824 in between April last year and the end of March as payment for their public duties as well as travel and subsistence costs, which include food and hotels.
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Leicester Worker
July 22, 2011 7:16 AM
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A total of £16 million of cuts at Leicester's hospitals were agreed at an emergency board meeting yesterday.
The cuts means there will be more job losses at the city's three hospitals than the 417 already announced, and strict limits introduced on the number of agency nurses and locum doctors employed.
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Leicester Worker
July 21, 2011 1:13 PM
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A former asylum seeker and journalist who seeks justice for persecuted people worldwide has moved his media company into the heart of Leicester.
Romail Gulzar relocated Pukaar News into offices in Phoenix Square saying: "Leicester is known for different groups living in harmony and it's a great centre for my mission to highlight injustice, particularly against minorities.
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Leicester Worker
July 21, 2011 12:58 PM
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Young people will debate with politicians the issues affecting them at the annual sitting of UK Youth Parliament.
Mu-Hamid Pathan and Hersh Thaker, who represent Leicester, will go to Leeds this weekend with 250 other young people, where they will meet members of parliament and heads of national groups representing young people.
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Leicester Worker
July 21, 2011 12:40 PM
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A film made by teenagers to promote safe sex has been hailed a success.
Performing arts students from Gateway College, in Hamilton, made the video for the Smart Girls Carry Condoms campaign, run by the county council's Teenage Pregnancy Partnership.
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Leicester Worker
July 19, 2011 4:47 PM
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Churchgoers from Leicester are helping a deported refugee rebuild his life in Africa.
Political activist Constant Moussavou spent six years in Leicester after fleeing to the UK from The Democratic Republic of Congo on a forged passport in 2003.
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Leicester Worker
July 20, 2011 7:26 AM
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Jon Ashworth has launched his website that contains details of his recent visits in the Constituency and of his Parliamentary work
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Leicester Worker
July 19, 2011 4:38 PM
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Don't believe everything you see on the telly: that's the message from the Saff this week. Many people on Leicester's Saffron Lane estate are still reeling from a negative, hour-long ITV documentary about them.
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Leicester Worker
July 19, 2011 5:26 PM
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If you’re interested in a weekly supply of fresh, locally produced, seasonal vegetables but don’t have the time or means to go and collect them from the farm every Saturday or Sunday you may like to know that you can now collect them from the Ecohouse on Hinckley Road, Leicester.
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