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Leicester & Leicestershire WATCH WORD For Leicester & Leicestershire Newsletter of CITY & COUNTY NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH – (LEICESTER & LEICESTERSHIRE) Working in SUPPORT of LEICESTERSHIRE POLICE. Charity No. 1072275 Issue 4/2015 The City & County Neighbourhood Watch is here to represent the concerns of members and their families. We operate entirely outside the police chain of command, so we can always promise an independent and confidential service Working in SUPPORT of LEICESTERSHIRE POLICE DETAILS of a new grant scheme to support local business growth have been announced by e-petition Fitting security screws Leicester's City Mayor. to car number plate The new discretionary business rate grant has been Your City & County Neighbourhood Watch introduced to support fast-growing businesses in Association are supporting this e-petition. We would the city and to help attract inward investment. ask that you get as many of your neighbours, relatives and friends to sign as possible Local businesses with high levels of growth can apply for a grant of up to £150,000 over three years We need 100,000 signatures for parliament to even to help them expand into larger premises. Grants discuss it. Click on the Link below will also be available for companies looking to set up in the city or for firms aiming to develop vacant YOU KNOW THAT IT MAKES SENSE properties for business use. e-petition Businesses must apply for the grant through a competitive process, and this will be awarded as relief against business rates. fit security screws to all car number plates at point of sale & MOT to prevent their theft City Mayor Peter Soulsby said: “Increases in business rates are one of the unavoidable costs Responsible department: Department for Transport that businesses face when considering taking on new or larger premises, and this can hold them Over 40,000 number plates stolen from vehicle's back. each year costing over £15 millions but to fit security screws costs 60pence per vehicle By fitting “This new package of financial support will make it security screws to car number plates at point of sale easier for local businesses to expand and grow, as or MOT takes a couple of minutes preventing YOU well as offering an encouragement for firms to take the POLICE and others wasting time effort and on new premises which might otherwise stand money SIMPLES!!! INDIA have done it already why empty. can't we? “It is another way we can build confidence in http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/68647 Leicester as a place for businesses to invest, grow and create new jobs in.” LEICESTER CITY Up to £800,000 of support will be available each New grants to support local year. This will be offset against business rates income, split between the council and the business growth Government. 03/02/2015 Bringing vacant buildings into use will also increase are thrilled to have the opportunity to place artists in the availability of business premises in the city and residence in St Barnabus and St Matthew's libraries could help create new business rate income. and see the magic of Imaginative Spaces get to work." For more information visit www.leicester.gov.uk/businessrates LEICESTER CITY LEICESTER CITY Reinterment events announced Grant transforms libraries 03/02/2015 03/02/2015 LEICESTER and LEICESTERSHIRE are preparing to welcome thousands of people from across the TWO city libraries will be transformed into creative globe with a huge programme of events and and cultural hubs, thanks to a grant of £89,000. activities to tie in with the reinterment of King Richard lll. Leicester City Council has won a successful bid from Arts Council England to continue its More than 100 special events and activities will run Imaginative Spaces project. from Friday 20 March, leading up to and beyond the reinterment of the king in Leicester Cathedral on Imaginative Spaces is a 12-month artists-in- Thursday 26 March. residence project, which will place artists at St Barnabus and St Matthews Library. Organisations across the city and county will be inviting people to join them for what promises to be Local charity The Spark Arts for Children will be a momentous week for the area, as the eyes of the working alongside the city council’s library service world focus on the final journey of the last King of to deliver the project. England to die in battle. Similar schemes were delivered at Southfields and Leicester’s City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: “It’s Braunstone Library at the Brite Centre last year. hard to believe that tomorrow (February 4) will be two years to the day since the human remains The aim of the project is to create a place where found beneath a Leicester car park were confirmed local families and communities can get involved in as those of King Richard lll. drama, dance and exciting events inspired by stories. “We are now only weeks away from his reinterment The artists will work closely with the library service, in Leicester Cathedral, which is only 100 steps young people, schools and community groups to away from where he was hastily buried more than form a calendar of fun and inspiring activities. 500 years ago. Cllr Sarah Russell, assistant city mayor responsible “ A huge amount of hard work and planning has for neighbourhood services, said: “A visit to the gone into ensuring he is laid to rest with dignity and library can be about much more than borrowing honour, and that people from all over the city, books, and this project is a fantastic example of county and indeed the world can be a part of this that. historic event. “The libraries will be transformed into a cultural hub “We look forward to welcoming them here, and to for local people to take part in many different kinds sharing this unique occasion with them.” of creative activities and events.” Events taking place throughout the week range Adel Al-Salloum, director of The Spark Arts for from the opening of new Medieval Leicester Children, said: “Our relationship with Leicester Galleries at the city’s historic Guildhall on Friday 20 library services goes from strength to strength. March, to a special King Richard lll service at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre on Sunday 22 “We have, over many years, been able to deliver March. Ticket details for this event are due to be really exciting work and last year's work at The Brite announced shortly. Centre and Southfields Library proved to have an enormous impact. Nick Rushton, leader of Leicestershire County Council said: “Next month’s reinterment is going to “This new project will build on that success and we 2 be a unique historic occasion which is designed to site of the medieval friary where the king was buried give King Richard lll the dignified burial he was more than 500 years ago. denied over 500 years ago. We’re delighted that Bosworth and nearby villages will be playing a Located just 100 steps from Leicester Cathedral, central role.” the centre uses 21 century technology and great design to tell the fascinating story of the king’s life The University of Leicester will hold a number of and death. events throughout the week, including King Richard lll Day on Saturday 21 March. Visitors will be able Further details of the procession that will take the to hear from the experts who made these historical remains of King Richard lll through the city and discoveries, experiment with DNA extraction, county before arriving at Leicester Cathedral for a sample a medieval banquet and much more. service of compline on the evening of Sunday 22 March will be published in the next few weeks. Screenwriter Phillipa Langley, who led the search for King Richard lll will be at Leicester’s Guildhall on Two giant screens will be erected in Leicester city Saturday 21 March to tell the story of her seven- centre to enable visitors to watch the service of and-a-half year journey to uncover the king’s grave compline, and the reinterment ceremony, which will through the Looking for Richard project. take place on Thursday 26 March. And from 8.10am (everyone to be seated by Leicester Cathedral will open for two special 7.30am) on Sunday 22 March, Leicester Cathedral sessions on Friday 27 March when the tomb of King will host a service, open to all, to mark the week of Richard lll will be revealed. Open from 3pm to the reinterment. 5.15pm and from 6.15pm to 9pm, these will be free events and large queues are expected. Guided trips to Fenn Lane Farm, reputedly the site of King Richard’s death at the Battle of Bosworth, Everyone is invited to share in a unique celebration will be offered six times a day, on selected days on Friday 27 March that will mark the historic throughout the week, starting on Monday 23 March. events of the week. ‘Leicester Glows: Fire Garden and Cathedral Illuminations’ will see 8,000 fire pots There will also be a series of talks at Bosworth, lit around Jubilee Square and Cathedral Gardens, including a presentation on ‘Arming Richard for marking the reinterment of the king. Battle’ involving re-enactor Dominic Smee who played King Richard’s body-double in a Channel 4 Running from 6pm to 10pm, the evening will include documentary. a stunning illumination of Leicester Cathedral along with a firework display. Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre hosts a permanent exhibition, which tells the dramatic story Activities will continue in the city and county on of the Battle of Bosworth on August 22 1485, which Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March.
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