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Lumbers has the X Factor
Lumbers transformed their high-end jewellery boutique into a Michelin Star fine-dinning restaurant, for an evening of entertainment with an X-tra special attraction!!
Creative agency back local talent
Leicester creative agency Rock Kitchen Harris is helping showcase some of the best local design talent by supporting a new print exhibition set to open in the city next month.
The Passion2Print workshop event will show work produced by members of the Leicester Print Workshop – an affordable design place created to help artists and designers practise their craft.
500th Anniversary of the Manners Family at Belvoir
500 years ago, in the same year as Henry 8th came to the British throne, Sir Robert Manners, the current Duke’s ancestor, first came to Belvoir.
Medbourne delighted with new bridge
The Leicestershire village of Medbourne celebrated its new footbridge with an official opening ceremony by Dr Kevin Feltham on Monday 6th April.
The world’s biggest countryside event returns to belvoir castle this summer
As we look forward to the summer we start to plan how we are going to spend it and indeed how we will entertain the children throughout the holidays. So what better than a day celebrating the very best of British heritage.
Her Majesty the Queen makes an historic lunch visit to University of Leicester’s Beaumont Hall
Her Majesty the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh were the honoured royal guests at a celebratory lunch held at the University of Leicester’s Beaumont Hall in Oadby, Leicestershire.
Pettifor Court secures top award from local police
A retirement development in Anstey has achieved the top ‘Secured By Design’ award from Leicestershire Police.
Local Man John Fewkes leaves Phenomenal £2.2 million to Music College
John Fewkes, a former Shepshed hosiery manufacturer who died last year aged 75, has left an astonishing £2.2m to the Royal Northern College of Music. His extensive music library has also been bequeathed to the college.
Millionth Customer Visits Highcross
Highcross Leicester welcomed its millionth customer on Wednesday 17th September after record crowds visited Leicestershire’s new £350 million retail, dining and entertainment destination.
Highcross Leicester Attracts Record Number Of Consumers
Over 125,000 Shop On First Day, The £350 million leisure and retail destination Highcross Leicester opened its doors to the public on September 4th, following two years of construction, and welcomed 50,000 visitors in its first four hours of trading.
Who needs Sat-Nav when there’s Stuart
As LOROS Lottery Representative Stuart Hook of Blaby prepares for a well-deserved retirement, staff at the LOROS Lottery office are getting used to consulting their A-to-Z maps instead of asking “human sat-nav” Stuart for directions!
Caterpillar And Leicester Tigers Announce Major Sponsorship Agreement
Construction equipment leader partners with biggest name in club rugby.
Caterpillar, the world’s leader in construction and mining equipment, engines, and related services, has signed a five year multi-million pound sponsorship agreement with Leicester Tigers, the best-supported club in the country.
Loughborough launches first women’s centre of cricket excellence
Loughborough University has been named as the country’s first women’s University Centre of Cricket Excellence (UCCE) thanks to additional funding from Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Dulux chooses east midlands for new design service
An interior design service is to be launched as a pilot across the East Midlands by colour experts Dulux, under the direction of Nottinghambased interior design celebrity, Marianne Shillingford.
KRCS, Celebrates the relaunch of their Leicester Store
KRCS Group Plc has announced that it is celebrating the relaunch of its Leicester Haymarket store with a celebrity visit by much-loved actor Ricky Tomlinson on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27th.
Deli comes to Great Glen
Things are not so great for village Post Offices and shops at the moment but Graham & Sue Parkinson at Great Glen Post Office are refusing to give in and fade away. Instead they have thrown everything into their business hoping to prove that village shops can survive and thrive.
Rockingham Castle
Award winning Rockingham Castles’ drawbridge is lowered for the 2007 season on Easter Sunday. Over the last four years the Castle has been nominated for and won four major awards for excellence, the most recent being the Silver Award for Best National Small Visitor Attraction.
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The Loughborough University Swimming Club has been named BBC East Midlands Team of the year
Head coach Ian Armiger was joined by a bevy of top Loughborough swimmers as he collected the award on behalf of a club that has achieved success across national and international competitions over the last year.