City Council Budget Set for Agreement This Week

Leicester City Council will make the final agreement of its most difficult budget in decades at the meeting of full council on Wednesday (Feb 22).
Cuts to Government funding have meant the council has to reduce its annual spending by around £40 million over the next three years.
City Mayor Peter Soulsby said: “When I was elected [...]

Untold Stories Launch Events – Capturing LGBT Memories

From Dennis Bradley:
Next week, February 23-29 February,  Untold Stories, LGBT History Project in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, launches a week of events and an exhibition to celebrate LGBT History Month.
During the week a huge display of local LGBT history will be available for you to visit at Leicester Central Library on Bishop Street (Town Hall [...]

Police Involvement Event for Older People at Age UK

Do you want to have your say in the way Leicestershire Constabulary and the Police Authority can improve their services for older people?
This will help assist in the type of service which both the Constabulary and the Police Authority offer in the future.�
Date:       Friday 24th February 2012
Time:       10.00am registration – start 10.30am [...]

Police Invite You To Tell It To Us Straight

Tuesday 28th February 6.30pm at Leicester LGBT Centre, 15 Wellington Street, Leicester.
Free refreshments will be available. Everyone has an opinion about policing, but the views of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people often don’t get heard but Leicestershire Constabulary and Leicestershire Police Authority want to change that. From homophobic abuse, domestic abuse, cruising or cottaging, [...]

Reminder to Apply for City Junior Schools

Parents and carers of Year 2 children currently in one of Leicester’s infant schools are being reminded that they need to apply now for a place at a junior school for September.
All parents and carers have been sent application packs and information by the School Admissions Service so they can apply for places before the [...]

Repairs completed to 4,000th city pothole

A pledge to deal with winter damage to Leicester’s roads has reached a milestone with the completion of repairs to the 4,000th pothole.
Work has been taking place since May 2011, when incoming city mayor Peter Soulsby announced a pledge to fill 1,000 potholes within his first 100 days in office.
The work has continued since then, [...]

Tigers Regiment Veterans to be made Honoured Citizens

Four war veterans from the Royal Leicestershire Regiment are being given the title of honoured citizens of the city.
The titles will be awarded by the Lord Mayor of Leicester to Captain Raymond P Savage, Mr Reg Twigg, and Mr John Sheppard DCM, and posthumously to Mr Fred Shenstone, whose award will be received by his [...]

Agenda for Abbey Community Meeting

The following document has just been published and is available download: agenda for Abbey Community Meeting, Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 6:00 pm
To see the publicly available information, follow the link: http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk:8071/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=4536&x=1
The following items are included in the agenda:
No.Item
1ELECTION OF CHAIR
2APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
3DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
4MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
5POLICE UPDATE
6BUDGET
7GYPSY AND TRAVELLER SITES CONSULTATION
8ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Agenda Addition for City Health & Community Involvement Scrutiny Commission

Please note that, further to the agenda for the above meeting which has already been circulated, additional information has been published, as follows:-
ITEM 3: REVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR WORKING AGE ADULTS – EVIDENCE FROM SERVICE USERS – Written evidence submitted by Network for Change (Appendix A4)
The following document has just been published and [...]

Braunstone parkrun round-up

Braunstone parkrun round-up (week 69), 18 February 2012
The latest parkrun took place at Braunstone Park at the weekend (18
February), attracting 143 runners to the weekly, timed, 5k race.
The field included around 50 red-clad runners who were showing their
support for a series of led runs, walks and bike rides organised by
Leicester City Council and taking place [...]

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