Loughborough

Highways, Transportation & Waste Management20 November 2009Launceston Road junction improvements beginWork on a new road layout to ease traffic congestion is starting at a key junction in Wigston next week. The £60,000 improvements to the junction of Station Road and Launceston Road include a new mini roundabout and an extension to the on-pavement cycle lane.... 21 Nov 2009 Launceston Road junction improvements begin

Highways, Transportation & Waste Management20 November 2009Accident-reducing road improvements in HinckleyWork is starting on the second phase of a £110,000 road improvement scheme to reduce accidents along a key route in Hinckley. The work on Dodwells Road and Normandy Way, which is being carried out by Leicestershire County Council, is due to start on Monday.... 21 Nov 2009 Accident-reducing road improvements in Hinckley

20 November 2009Seven schools receive. .... 21 Nov 2009 Seven schools receive £16 million revamp

University of Leicester PhD organise 'Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones', an event for researchers and artists working with museums... 20 Nov 2009 Interactive event to challenge views on museum culture

10th Man to walk on the moon to lecture at the University of Leicester in a filled-to-capacity public event... 20 Nov 2009 An audience with Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie Duke

A 2.75 Million award recently announced by Labour s Housing Minister Margaret Beckett to help build the Birstall Park & Ride scheme could be returned by Leicestershire County Council. The Birstal scheme is part of a 170 million fund allocated to 29 transport projects across the country and forms part of Labour s fiscal stimulus package announced during the last Pre-Budget Review.... 07 May 2009 County Council to Refuse 2.75 Million Government Grant for Birstall Park and Ride

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has this week announced that Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing and Charnwood Borough Council have been successful in their bid for 1,062,500 to insulate 1,250 homes over 2 years. Charnwood is one of only three social landlords in the East Midlands to receive this funding to help insulate social homes reducing fuel bills for tenants and cutting carbon emissions.... 06 Aug 2009 1million for Greener Homes and Cheaper Energy Bills

Chief Executives 10 December 2008 34. 9m for services to support housing Leicester and Leicestershire are to benefit from a share of a 34.... 02 Jan 2009 £34.9m for services to support housing

Cabinet Office 7 November 2008 Multi-million pound bid to boost schools Schools across Leicestershire could receive a multi-million pound revamp, after the Government invited the County Council to bid for cash. Loughborough and Quorn could be first in line for a 80 million revamp, followed by Hinckley and Earl Shilton and North West Leicestershire and Shepshed.... 30 Dec 2008 Multi-million pound bid to boost schools

Eric Goodyer, Labours Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Birstall, and Labour s Housing Minister Margaret Beckett, welcomed todays announcement that the long overdue Birstall Park & Ride scheme is to get a 2.75 million boost from the Government. ... 29 Mar 2009 Birstall Park and Ride Scheme to receive 2.75M

Plans to help hard-up families meet the cost of transport to faith schools have been agreed by Leicestershire County Council s ruling Cabinet. ... 05 Jun 2007 Faith School Transport Subsidy Approved

ALMO Board in Place and Set for Tour Date of Release: 14/06/07 CHARNWOOD Neighbourhood Housing (CNH), the Arms Length Management organisation, soon to be responsible for the management of the Borough ... 14 Jun 2007 ALMO Board in Place and Set for Tour.

CHARNWOOD Borough Council voted at Cabinet on the 14 June, to resist proposals to increase the scale of development over and above that proposed in the Regional Plan, and is now publicly clarifying th... 27 Jun 2007 Regional Plan

Loughborough s prospective Conservative Member of Parliament, Nicky Morgan, has given a welcome to the partial retraction of the Government of proposals to take back a percentage of any excess in a schools budget at the end of the schools fiscal year. ... 04 Nov 2007 Nicky Morgan welcomes climb down by the Government

Outline proposals for a major new Eco-town just north of Loughborough involving the creation of a sustainable community of at least 6,000 homes have been submitted to the Department of Communities and Local Government.... 21 Nov 2007 New Town Near Loughborough

A SERIES of free graffiti workshops could help creative youngsters avoid a brush with the law. Charnwood Community Safety Partnership, of which Charnwood Borough Council is a partner, is staging the six-week programme of graffiti workshops in three neighbourhoods to give 11 to 16-year-olds an alternative means of expression rather than daubing slogans and images on buildings throughout the Borough.... 18 Jul 2008 Graffiti Workshops in Loughborough and Charnwood

Andy Reed MP today announced the giving away of chess sets to schools. The chess sets are available for schools as part of a scheme to provide a quarter of a million chess sets into the school network. Negotiations with manufacturers and distributors means that ten sets and boards can be offered to every school in England. ... 13 Feb 2008 Loughborough MP Announces Free Chess Sets for Schools

The Charnwood Museum in Loughborough has a new exhibition of textile art by local group Cinnabar on the theme of Wide Horizons... 30 Jan 2008 New Horizons

Reports are coming in that Loughborough Town Centre was yesterday infiltrated by a giant robot. The robot which some eye witnesses say they saw in Market Place and Market Street at various times yesterday afternoon stood some 8ft tall, was metallic in colour, had blue glowing eyes and spoke in sound bites.... 27 May 2008 Robot in Loughborough Town Centre

20 November 2009Seven schools receive. .... 21 Nov 2009 Seven schools receive £16 million revamp

Community Services29 October 2009Leicestershire County Council reveals results of groundbreaking archaeology surveyLeicestershire County Council today held a press conference at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre to announce the conclusion of a groundbreaking three year archaeological survey to locate the battle of Bosworth, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund grant. Battlefields Trust archaeologist, Glenn Foard, revealed an exciting collection of finds from the Battle of Bosworth of international archaeological significance.... 30 Oct 2009 Leicestershire County Council reveals results of groundbreaking archaeology survey

The popular, annual Charnwood Borough Council-organised event will open at 6pm on Wednesday, November 11th and run until Saturday, November 14th 2009.... 03 Nov 2009 Loughborough Fair

Police searching for missing man have found a bodyPolice searching for a 77 year old man from Loughborough, who has been missing since yesterday evening, have found the body of a man. Ernest Sanham from Park Road in Loughborough, was admitted to the Leicester General Hospital on Thursday 22nd October 2009 suffering from confusion.... 26 Oct 2009 Police searching for missing man have found a body

Information about being safe on Bonfire Night will be available for shoppers who visit Loughborough town centre on Wednesday.... 03 Nov 2009 Loughborough shoppers to benefit from Bonfire Night Advice

Street children in the third world and some of the most endangered animals on the planet are set to benefit from generous visitors the Great Central Railway. The award winning Leicestershire heritage line teamed up with two charities to raise money at special gala events.... 26 Oct 2009 GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY RAISES TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS FOR CHARITY

A SERIES of free graffiti workshops could help creative youngsters avoid a brush with the law. Charnwood Community Safety Partnership, of which Charnwood Borough Council is a partner, is staging the six-week programme of graffiti workshops in three neighbourhoods to give 11 to 16-year-olds an alternative means of expression rather than daubing slogans and images on buildings throughout the Borough.... 18 Jul 2008 Graffiti Workshops in Loughborough and Charnwood

Andy Reed MP today announced the giving away of chess sets to schools. The chess sets are available for schools as part of a scheme to provide a quarter of a million chess sets into the school network. Negotiations with manufacturers and distributors means that ten sets and boards can be offered to every school in England. ... 13 Feb 2008 Loughborough MP Announces Free Chess Sets for Schools

Reports are coming in that Loughborough Town Centre was yesterday infiltrated by a giant robot. The robot which some eye witnesses say they saw in Market Place and Market Street at various times yesterday afternoon stood some 8ft tall, was metallic in colour, had blue glowing eyes and spoke in sound bites.... 27 May 2008 Robot in Loughborough Town Centre

14 motorbikes and mini-motos have been crushed after they were confiscated by police in Loughborough during a crack down on young people who drive dangerously and inconsiderately on roads, parks and public places.... 02 Jul 2008 Mini moto campaign in Loughborough is a crushing success.

Radical changes to social care in Leicestershire will be outlined at a meeting next week. The County Council wants to personalise its social care and will update the Cabinet on the plans next Tuesday (29th July).... 22 Jul 2008 Radical plans to personalise social care in Leicestershire