A Prince's Trust team has been busy doing gardening work at a nursery after it was attacked by vandals.After reading in the Mercury about last month's break-in at Muddy Boots, in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, the team of 16 to 25 year olds on the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service Prince's Trust Team swung into action.Over the past two weeks they have helped fix play equipment damaged by the vandals and also gone the extra mile, cutting back massive amounts of undergrowth to create a new nature...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 15 hours ago.
A Prince's Trust team has been busy doing gardening work at a nursery after it was attacked by vandals.After reading in the Mercury about last month's break-in at Muddy Boots, in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, the team of 16 to 25 year olds on the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service Prince's Trust Team swung into action.Over the past two weeks they have helped fix play equipment damaged by the vandals and also gone the extra mile, cutting back massive amounts of undergrowth to create a new nature...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 15 hours ago.
TV naturalist David Attenborough is heading to Australia's Great Barrier Reef to film his next landmark nature series.The 88-year-old, who grew up in Leicester, revealed that some of the new BBC1 series will be shot in 3D for an expected cinema release possibly next year.Sir David told Attenborough, who first filmed on the Great Barrier Reef for the BBC programme Zoo Quest in 1957, told RadioTimes.com that much of the filming will take place underwater – although now he is approaching his...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 14 hours ago.
TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough is heading to Australia's Great Barrier Reef to film his next landmark nature series. The 88-year-old, who grew up in Leicester, revealed that some of the new BBC1 series will be shot in 3D for an expected cinema release possibly next year. Sir David told Attenborough, who first filmed on the Great Barrier Reef for the BBC programme Zoo Quest in 1957, told RadioTimes.com that much of the filming will take place underwater – although now he is...
Reported by Tiverton Mid Devon Gazette 14 hours ago.
Singing star Sam Bailey has thanked fans who voted her into fourth place as the best ever X Factor winner.The 37-year-old from Leicester Forest East tweeted her thanks after the result of the Radio Times poll was announced.Mum-of-two Sam, who is expecting her third child any day now, said: "Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the RadioTimes X Factor poll. I am honoured to be voted 4th place. Xx lots of love, #thepregnant1."More than 500,000 votes were cast and 2012 champion James Arthur...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 13 hours ago.
Delegates and event organisers are being offered up to 50 per cent off train travel to Leicester.The Leicester and Leicestershire Convention Bureau has announced a partnership with East Midlands Trains to offer discounts on tickets for visitors attending conferences, events or exhibitions in the city and county.It follows the news that tourism trade association UKinbound has selected Leicester as the destination for its convention next February.UKinbound represents more than 300 tourism...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 12 hours ago.
England and Leicester received mixed news on Tuesday as Tom Croft insisted it is ‘business as usual’ following a shoulder scare — only for club captain Ed Slater to be ruled out for the season.
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Thirty years ago today, a research team at the University of Leicester, led by Sir Alec Jeffreys, made a breakthrough which would change crime investigation and other areas of life forever. They unlocked the secrets of DNA. Alec Jeffreys once told an audience he believed his revolutionary DNA profiling technique would one day help police nail rapists and killers. "People just fell about laughing – they thought I had lost my marbles," he said. In fact, his unlocking of the mysteries of...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 6 hours ago.
Last week's transfer deadline day was quite an experience.In the past Leicester City have done little or no business on deadline day, operating well below the radar.Now they are in the Premier League, the media spotlight was certainly shining more intensely on them and the fact that manager Nigel Pearson had said City would be trying to bring in two more players before the deadline intensified the interest.Sky's Rob Dorsett, who was a frequent visitor on press days at Belvoir Drive last...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 18 hours ago.
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Who would you choose for an all time Leicester City five-a-side team?The Leicester Mercury team has come up with our best five line-up - a mixture of genuine class, guile and industry:Gordon BanksFrank McLintockMuzzy IzzetKeith WellerGary LinekerGordon Banks – The 1966 World Cup winning England goalkeeper, Banks was quite possibly the finest keeper ever to have played the game. He spent eight years at City making 293 appearances.Frank McLintock – cultured, ball-playing Scottish ...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 18 hours ago.
A woman who has lost two baby boys was among those at a special remembrance service at Leicester Royal Infirmary.It is the first time Haidee Westerman, from Glenfield, has felt strong enough to attend the non-denominational service in the hospital's chapel to remember babies who were still born or died shortly after birth.She lost baby Jack in 2011 and baby Zac last year.Both died due to complications before her pregnancy reached full term.Haidee, a carer support worker, said: "It is the first...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 17 hours ago.
DNA pioneer Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys came face to face with himself today when a specially commissioned portrait was unveiled in his honour. The portrait hangs in the department of genetics at the University of Leicester today – the same building in which he and his team make their revolutionary breakthrough 30 years ago. It was painted by Tess Barnes as part of a new collection called Drawn to Science and shows Sir Alec sitting in a lab surrounded by symbols of his life and work. It...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 17 hours ago.
The remarkable rise of Jamie Vardy has proved that non-league football still has the ability to produce Premier League stars – if you know where to look.The 27-year-old's move to Leicester City from Fleetwood in the summer of 2012 received widespread coverage when he became the first £1million non-league footballer.Just two years later and Vardy has already put the fear of God into an Arsenal defence with his cameo appearance a fortnight ago.Vardy was on manager Nigel Pearson's radar...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 16 hours ago.