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Join us for this free multi service event where you can access support and information from a range of different local charities, services, and organisations.

We are celebrating 90 years of drama in 2024 and will be performing ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ by Alan Ayckbourn on Wednesday 20 - Saturday 23 November 2024.

Nevill Holt, near Medbourne, a 13th century Leicestershire estate, is this year celebrating art in all its forms, when scores of famous names and acclaimed productions stop by for its inaugural multi- faceted festival which has expanded its annual opera festival to host music, theatre, art, comedy and fascinating talks with the likes of Andrew Marr, Elizabeth Day, Phil Tufnell and Kristin Scott-Thomas sharing the line-up with Mozart and Max Richter.

10am - 4pm

The Leicestershire Historic Churches Trust is encouraging people to sign up to take part in Ride+Stride, the annual fundraising event that helps raise money for repairs and improvements to historic churches, chapels and meeting houses throughout Leicester and Leicestershire.

Dear Editor

Dear Editor

Except for a few glorious days in early May, the first eight weeks of the April to September weekly butterfly counts have been something of a disaster for insects. Only Orange Tip butterflies have appeared locally in numbers approaching ‘normal’. However, as you may have heard on BBC Springwatch, numbers seem to be down across the country. Common species such as Small Tortoiseshell, Comma and Red Admiral have been conspicuously absent.