Leicester

Keith Vaz has seen off the Conservative challenge in Leicester East and increased his majority. The veteran Labour politician went into the election defending a majority of 14,082 but ended up...

The Conservatives have easily held onto power in Charnwood, despite candidates from UKIP and the BNP threatening to split the right-wing vote. Last time around the seat was won by Conservative MP...

Labour's Liz Kendall has been elected to serve a second term as the MP for Leicester West Ms Kendall's victory in yesterday's election has just been announced at the count at Leicester Tigers'...

May Day is celebrated as a day of international solidarity between workers and the oppressed around the globe. So earlier today I was happy to participate in the annual May Day rally and march here...

Officials have written to Keith Vaz's election agent asking for an explanation of the apparent illegal use of a loud speaker while campaigning.


Last week the Mercury revealed environmental...

Labour has outlined the election policies which it hopes will allow it to retain control of Leicester City Council end return Sir Peter Soulsby as mayor. The party has published a 38 page manifesto...

Keith Vaz's Bollywood friend brought Belgrave Road to a standstill yesterday as crowds thronged to get a look at the heart-throb actor who came to boost his election campaign. Three PCSOs on duty...

Leicester Trade Union and Socialist Coalition election candidates and activists have staged a city centre protest against zero-hour contracts and in favour of a £10 an hour minimum wage. The...

Ed Miliband has said next month's General Election could be decided by "a few hundred votes in a few dozen constituencies" during a speech in Leicester today. The Labour leader was in the...

He was shown around the site by managing director David Haynes, where he got the chance to meet some of the young apprentices.

More than half the 36 community libraries under threat because of County Hall spending cuts are on the road to local control. Nineteen community groups have been given the go-ahead to seek transfer...

Leicester city councillor Barbara Potter has pleaded for leniency from a judge on the grounds her teenage son would suffer if she was jailed. Potter was recently convicted by a jury of intending to...

On a night of striking Tory gains across England, there was never a doubt that Sir Edward Garnier would be returned as MP for Harborough. He duly won his sixth term with 27,675 votes - and a...

Alberto Costa has been elected as the Conservative MP for South Leicestershire this morning. The new MP saw 28,700 people vote for his seat, after former Conservative MP for the constituency, Andrew...

Conservative Nicky Morgan has successfully defended her seat in Loughborough with a greatly increased majority. She won nearly 26,000 votes, compared to Labour's 16,579. Mrs Morgan took the seat...

Jon Ashworth has successfully defended Leicester South for Labour and gained an increased majority. He got 27,493 votes in yesterday's election to secure a 17,845 majority and hold the seat he won...

Keith Vaz's election team is being investigated over claims it illegally used a loud speaker while campaigning.

One of the Labour Leicester East candidate's vehicles was filmed blaring out a...

Protestors have set up camp in Leicester's new £4 million Jubilee Square - and say they intend to stay put until the election on May 7. A makeshift "Democracy Accident and Emergency...

A businessman who appeared in the controversial documentary Make Leicester British is standing as a UKIP candidate in next month's city council election. Sukiy Singh is seeking to become a...

Police have publicly criticised a decision to not put former Leicester MP Greville Janner on trial for alleged sexual abuse of children. Senior officers spoke out after Alison Saunders, the Director...

The Green Party has launched its Leicester manifesto in the run up to next month's parliamentary, city council and mayoral elections. Candidates and party activists unveiled their 26-page policy...

For the first time in more than 40 years there will be no Conservative Party candidate standing in Groby for election to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. The situation has arisen after Leigh...