Reports
Mayor reshuffles top team after councillor Adam Clarke's resignation
Two new faces join the Leicester mayoral team after Councillor Adam Clarke quit.
Features
Lady Jane Grey: Leicester’s nine-day queen
In July 1553, a young noble named Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed as Queen of England and Ireland.
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Still a teenager, her reign lasted just nine days and her life came to an end in the most brutal of circumstances only seven months later. Lady Jane Grey’s tragic story has captured the imagination ever since, not least here in Leicester where she is believed to have spent much of her early life.
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The two 19th-century Leicester women who fought against slavery
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How a speech 140 years ago kickstarted Leicester's socialist movement
'Events on that night 140 years ago kickstarted a robust socialist movement in the city that still endures'.
