Leicester

Week of events to mark royal reinterment has been a spectacular success, winning city priceless publicity

The Liberal Democrats have entered Leicester's mayoral election race with six weeks to polling day. The party has selected Adrian Barnes as its candidate to try to unseat Labour's Sir Peter Soulsby....

Leicester's mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has been challenged on why he waited months to sack a council boss once he was informed the crisis in the children's social services department she had been...

Ofsted inspectors have laid bare widespread or serious failures by Leicester City Council leaving children being harmed or at risk of harm. The watchdog has today published its damning findings...

I love election time. All the parties scurrying to make rash promises hoping to sway voters. The latest delight is a promise by the Conservatives to open 500 more "Free" schools if they...

An elderly Leicester woman who was called a "dopey bird" and a "fascist" by a Daily Mail columnist has said she is amused she was singled out for the attack "when there are...

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The Leicester Secular Society wants to install CCTV at its base in the city because it fears it will be targeted by Islamist terrorists in a Charlie Hebdo-style attack. The organisation, which...

There is to be a 'massive shake-up' of children's social care services in Leicestershire, as City Mayor Peter Soulsby acts on information brought to light by a recent Ofsted inspection.

The watchdog spent four weeks inspecting the services at the start of this year, and is due to publish its report later this month. But Leicester City Council says its own findings mean it has had to act now, so immediate improvements can be made.

Young women were invited to County Hall at the weekend to celebrate International Women's Day. About 70 people, aged between 11 and 19-years-old, visited the council headquarters in Glenfield to...

Leicester City Council's assistant mayor for children and young people and a senior officer have been today been sacked, as it emerged the authority failed to allocate social workers to look after...

One of Keith Vaz's campaign vehicles has been caught parked up in a disabled bay at Leicester railway station without a blue badge. The Leicester East MP's silver Ford Galaxy was snapped by a...

Using up unwanted food and giving the homeless a hot meal. Isobel Frodsham finds out more about The Real Junk Food Project What do you do when your food goes out of date? Chuck it away? Smell it and...

A youth centre is to be sold to De Montfort University for nearly £1 million. The city council said the large Watershed building, on the banks of the River Soar in Upperton Road, was surplus...

An animal charity worker has told how she warned the RSCPA and council officials about Leicester dog breeder James Clarke – eight years before he was prosecuted for causing unnecessary...

At Nuneaton Magistrates’ Court on March 10, JW Mobility Ltd, trading as Mobility and Lifestyle, pleaded guilty to three consumer protection offences and was ordered to pay £9,536.24

A Tory councillor could be sacked as an election candidate over allegations he sent racist, pornographic and sexist e-mails to colleagues. A meeting is to be held on Friday night to determine...

The number of people claiming Jobseekers' Allowance in Leicestershire has risen for the second successive month. It comes after the figure hit the lowest level in 32 years in December thanks to the...

The Green Party and the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition have unveiled their candidates hoping to dislodge Labour MP Jon Ashworth from his Leicester South seat. NHS worker Andrew Walton will...

Council officials have been accused of putting "intolerable pressure" on elderly residents to get them to move out of a care home. Leicester City Council wants to shut Herrick Lodge, in...

The streets around Leicester's Town Hall Square are to be the focus of the next phase of a multi-million revamp of the city centre, according to Sir Peter Soulsby. The square outside the council's...

Public sector union Unison has launched a petition opposing a Government order for the conversion of a primary school into an academy. The union represents staff at Uplands Junior School, in...

City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby claims the Department for Education offered to delay the forced conversion of a Leicester primary school into an academy if he agreed to a secondary school switching...