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Leicester vs Nottingham Forest live stream: How to watch Premier League fixture online and on TV tonight

All you need to know about the top-flight game

The Independent UK

First Person: Meet Lisa Botterill, one of Leicester’s few female corporate partners

'I made some mistakes along the way - however, I learned from them and never made them again'

Birmingham Post

Line-up for Leicester Business Festival 2022 announced

A football club aiming for Net Zero, digital masterclasses and improving mental health in the workplace all feature

Birmingham Post

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Former HMRC tax office in Leicester sold to developer

The vacant, 89,000 sq ft Saxon House gained planning approval for flats in August last year

Birmingham Post

Insurance giant Hastings Direct offers workers 5% pay rise and £500 cost of living bonus

Company also giving staff access to £200,000 hardship fund and free meals at Bexhill and Leicester offices

Birmingham Post

Leicester’s unrest is a problem for the whole city, not just Hindu and Muslim communities

Since late August, the city of Leicester in England has seen violent confrontations between groups of Hindu and Muslim men. The situation escalated on September 17 when about 200 Hindu men marched through a Muslim-majority area of east Leicester. Wearing masks, hoodies and balaclavas, they chanted “Jai Shri Ram” (meaning…

The Conversation

Steve Coogan ‘not a monarchist’ despite recent royal-related projects

The actor’s upcoming film, The Lost King, tells a fictionalised version of King Richard III’s remains beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.

The Independent UK

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The big picture: Kavi Pujara’s ode to Leicester’s Golden Mile

Kavi Pujara captures the ‘poetry of homes and street corners’ of Leicester’s Hindu community during more peaceful times

The Guardian - UK

Eight people charged over Leicester unrest

Charges include making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon

The Independent UK

Leicester riots: City at sudden crossroads after violence ends 50 years of harmony

To the outside observer, the Golden Mile in Leicester appeared to teem with its usual, colourful life this week.

The Independent UK

‘People are scared’: Leicester at sudden crossroads after violence ends 50 years of harmony

Residents and leaders alike are shell-shocked by the clashes, but many are now asking why no one saw this coming

The Independent UK

‘It feels like people want to fight’: how communal unrest flared in Leicester

Muslim-Hindu tensions have been rising for months, say residents, fuelled by social media and police inaction

The Guardian - UK

Hindu-Muslim tensions flare in central England

On the streets of Leicester, England, groups of young people, mainly Hindus and Muslims, have been facing off. Since August 28, videos have shown groups of masked youths heading into the streets amid rising tensions. Although community leaders have called for calm, many people, including our Observer, fear the violence…

France 24

Home Secretary vows to tackle ‘disorder and thuggery’ after Leicester meetings

Suella Braverman insisted she was focused on how to ‘restore safety and harmony’ to the city after 47 arrests at the weekend.

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The Hindu

Prevent further attacks in Leicester and Birmingham: India to U.K.

The High Commission of India in the UK had earlier urged the British authorities to provide protection to the affected population

The Guardian - UK

Leicester mayor announces independent inquiry into city violence

Review to look at whether extremist and outside groups encouraged Hindu and Muslim clashes

The Independent UK

Leicester riots a warning that violence in UK can be sparked by global events, experts say

Calls for new measures to prevent sectarian troubles in other countries seeping into neighbourhoods here

Nottingham Post

Talk by Hindu leader in Nottingham cancelled amid protests in UK

There were clashes in Leicester and Birmingham

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Evening Standard

The Leicester riots show us how useless the BAME label now is

Successful multicultural societies are difficult to get right. When people from different communities have mixed together, they have often fought over religious or ethnic differences. Tribal loyalties usually trump any attachment to a universal humanity. Contemporary Britain is far from perfect, but it’s one of the most successful liberal and…

Birmingham Post

Green light for three more units at Pioneer science and technology park in Leicester

New buildings will 'enhance the facilities available to the research and development sector'

The Independent UK

Leicester residents ‘scared to go out’ due to Hindu-Muslim clashes as tensions spread to Birmingham

Community leaders fear religious tensions could spread nationwide after huge crowd of masked men filmed outside Hindu temple

Newslaundry

Trinamool’s Saket Gokhale sends Times Now legal notice for making ‘false and malicious statements’

Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale has sent a legal notice to Times Now accusing its editor, Rahul Shivshankar, of attributing “utterly false and malicious statements” to him on a show about the Hindu-Muslim tension in Leicester, UK.

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: What’s behind the violent clashes in Leicester

In today’s newsletter: Arrests and disinformation stoke fears among people in one of the UK’s most diverse cities that unrest might spread

Al Jazeera

Leicester: Call for calm after Hindu-Muslim unrest in UK city

Hindu and Muslim community leaders in the UK city call for an immediate end to ‘provocation’ after weeks of violence.

Daily Mirror

Leicester riots: Religious leaders call for end to violence between Hindus and Muslims

A recent T20 cricket match is believed to have reignited historic tensions that fuelled violence between sections of the city’s Muslim and Hindu communities over the weekend

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