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Leicester - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | The annual Diwali celebrations are also held here and at the nearby Abbey Park, and are the biggest outside of India. |
| | There are also many of Afro-Caribbean descent (mainly from Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and Jamaica), the community being centred around Highfields to the southeast of the city centre, and Leicester plays host to the second-largest Caribbean Carnival in the UK after Notting Hill. |
| | To celeberate the successes of 1997-98, the Leicester Mercury organised the placement of a statue portraying a cricketer, a footballer, and a rugby-player on Gallowtree Gate, not far from the Clock Tower at the heart of the city. |
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