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13/10/2025

Footage taken by residents living nearby the Leicester park showed the extent of the crowds that gathered on Saturday evening.

13/10/2025

Diwali will be a bit different this year.

With just a week to go until the scaled back celebrations in Leicester, here's what will be happening on the Golden Mile.

Thousands of customers have been affected ⚠️Customers have taken to social media to complain of "complete outages" in th...
13/10/2025

Thousands of customers have been affected ⚠️

Customers have taken to social media to complain of "complete outages" in their area.

Read more: https://bbc.in/4q6sDf1

No-one was inside the property at the time and no injuries were reported, police say.A 15-year-old boy has been arrested...
13/10/2025

No-one was inside the property at the time and no injuries were reported, police say.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a fire at a bungalow under renovation in Leicestershire.

Read more: https://bbc.in/438xr9Y

"It is a real testament to the strength of our school that they have chosen to come back and give back." ❤️Read why four...
13/10/2025

"It is a real testament to the strength of our school that they have chosen to come back and give back." ❤️

Read why four "boomerang teachers" decided to come back to teach at the school they attended as children: https://bbc.in/3JagOnB

One of Leicester's most famous streets has a grisly past 😱Meet the men who were hanged at Gallowtree Gate and lived to t...
12/10/2025

One of Leicester's most famous streets has a grisly past 😱

Meet the men who were hanged at Gallowtree Gate and lived to tell the tale.

More here: https://bbc.in/47p45Wr

12/10/2025

"I didn't know what to do!" 😱

Laura from Leicester went viral on TikTok after she shared this video of ladybird's invading her home.

"Displays of national pride have their rightful place, but lamp-posts are not it."MP Jeevun Sandher, the Labour member f...
12/10/2025

"Displays of national pride have their rightful place, but lamp-posts are not it."

MP Jeevun Sandher, the Labour member for Loughborough, said flags on lamp-posts were becoming "tatty" and "risk detaching and falling into the road".

Read more: https://bbc.in/4oeh7N1

"I thought this was something special."Melinda Bell, a retired biology teacher, spotted the "pretty" Candelabra Coral on...
12/10/2025

"I thought this was something special."

Melinda Bell, a retired biology teacher, spotted the "pretty" Candelabra Coral on a moss-covered log while she was on a walk.

Read more: https://bbc.in/3J9euNF

"It was just a nightmare" 🐞Laura, from Leicestershire, shared the moment she discovered "hundreds" of ladybirds inside h...
12/10/2025

"It was just a nightmare" 🐞

Laura, from Leicestershire, shared the moment she discovered "hundreds" of ladybirds inside her home and the clip has been viewed more than one million times.

Watch her scream at the sight of the ladybirds here: https://bbc.in/4h3rz7A

"There's something about looking the future in the face and not wanting to really process that at the minute." ❤️Former ...
11/10/2025

"There's something about looking the future in the face and not wanting to really process that at the minute." ❤️

Former Leicester Tigers and England rugby player Lewis Moody revealed the news about his MND diagnosis earlier this week.

He spoke to the BBC about how the news had affected him and his family.

Watch the full interview here: https://bbc.in/48SQCs4

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11/10/2025

"I ended up driving round Bath trying to find a B&B, just so I could be there in the morning." ❤️

After Lewis Moody revealed he had been diagnosed with MND, his former Leicester Tigers teammates, including Leon Lloyd and Geordan Murphy, have rallied around him.

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