Leicester’s elected mayor launches into his second year on the job with spending cuts and job losses looming over the city. Sir Peter Soulsby closes the book on his first year in office as the country’s second most powerful mayor, after London’s Boris Johnson, on May 5, 2012. On February 22 Leicester City Council voted …
MORE RESTAURANT 62A London Road, Leicester Oliver Twist in mind, to a restaurant that promised to give me “more”. Every meal at London Road’s plushest new venue (which fills the gaping hole left by Antibo’s) has been painstakingly planned to deliver more taste, more comfort and more attention to detail than any other venue in …
Started by a group of university students 19 years ago, the LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL has since become the longest-running event of its kind in the whole of Europe. Game for a laugh features writer MEERA MAJITHIA finds out more. Back in 1994, Leicester’s very own comedy festival kicked-off. There were 40 events programmed at 23 …
Sportlight On Writers From Every Culture where FIFTY city-based novelists, poets and playwrights will be representing the city’s cultural diversity as a major literature project picks up speed. The Writers’ Gallery is an online who’s-who of the best writing talent to grace the city since the 1980s, which goes live to an international audience of …