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	A Brief History of Leicester, Leicestershire, England
		Leicester soon recovered from the effects of the civil war and by 1670 it probably had a population of about 5,000.
		Leicester was described in a magazine in 1909: ‘it is difficult to think of Leicester as a town of considerable industrial importance.
		Leicester escaped heavy bombing in World War II but on 19 November 1940 bombs were dropped on Highfield Street and Saxby Street killing 40 people.
	www.localhistories.org /leicester.html (2179 words)

	Leicester - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Leicester (pronounced [ˈlɛstə]) is a city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar.
		Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, having been founded by the Romans, and is now one of the most ethnically diverse.
		In the 9th century, Leicester was captured by the Danes (Vikings) and became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of Danelaw, although this position was short lived.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/e/i/Leicester.html (2093 words)

	etyres mobile tyres fitting service in Highfields Leicester
		Highfields is an inner city area of Leicester, England.
		There are modern council estates to the east of Leicester railway station, built during the 1960s on the site of cleared slums, but for the most part the area consists of privately owned and rented property, with some housing association properties.
		Highfields has in the past been an area associated with crime - it was known even prior to the Second World War as the city's red light district however this is no longer the case.
	www.etyres.co.uk /town-descriptions/tyres-highfields-leicester.htm (804 words)

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		In contrast, the introduction of the Anglican Collegiate School for the Church Commissioners in 1836 raised expectations for the development of the southern area of Highfields.
		From the 1880s, however, further expansion of the whole of Highfields extended to artisanal housing, dividing the area into a declining middle-class southern area and an outer area of artisanal housing.
		Janette Brown, 'South Highfields, Leicester: the evolution of a suburb, 1891-1991' (unpublished M.A. dissertation, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, 1994, to which this account is greatly indebted).
	www.le.ac.uk /ee/pot/leicester/highfields.html (509 words)

	Leicester travel guide - Wikitravel
		Leicester [1] is one of the largest cities in the East Midlands region of England, the capital of the traditional county of Leicestershire, with a population of some 330,000 in the metropolitan area.
		Leicester has grown rapidly throughout the centuries and is now a cosmopolitan city with friendly people from all races, backgrounds and cultures creating a culturally diverse city.
		Leicester is on the main London to Leeds rail route operated by Midland Mainline.
	wikitravel.org /en/Leicester (1890 words)

	999 Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, having been founded by the Romans, and is now one of the most ethnically diverse.
		Leicester played a significant role in the history of England, when in 1265 Simon de Montfort forced King Henry III to hold the first parliament of England at the now-ruined Leicester Castle.
		Leicester is expected by 2012 to become the first major city in Britain in which the ethnic minority population will form a majority.
	www.999leicester.com (2342 words)

	Knitting Together
		Leicester's population expanded by 40% during the 1860s from 68,000 to 95,000.
		The middle classes moved to new suburbs, such as South Highfields in Leicester, while the working classes were crowded into houses that were tightly packed together, creating an unhealthy environment.
		The wealth acquired by Leicester from the knitting industry was used to fund a new town hall.
	www.knittingtogether.org.uk /Doc.asp?doc=7373&cat=743 (753 words)

	Department for Transport - Personal security issues in pedestrian journeys
		Highfields is an established area in Leicester close to the city centre and railway station.
		There are also other parks in Highfields nearer to where people live, one big one Spinney Hills and a number of pocket parks which usually have a few children's play equipment and seating.
		Leicester City Council aimed to improve community safety in Highfields through a range of initiatives including lighting, traffic calming, safe routes to school and the reduction of prostitution.
	www.dft.gov.uk /pgr/crime/ps/personalsecurityissuesinpede3005?page=16 (3431 words)

	Clockwise Credit Union, Leicester
		It came into existence in November 2002, when the financial Services Authority gave permission for Highfields Credit Union to operate across the City and most of the immediately adjoining county areas.
		Highfields Credit Union had operated successfully in the Highfields area of the city since 1992 and the registered Head Office of Clockwise remains at 25 Mere Road, in Highfields, Leicester.
		We currently have 10 Board Members, however, we are constantly looking for new board members that can either bring new skills and competences to the Board or ensure all areas of the community are well represented.
	www.clockwise-cu.co.uk /about.html (442 words)

	IRR: The fight for community begins in Leicester
		Priya Thamotheram, manager of HYCC for over twenty years, is widely respected in Leicester for his work in bringing the various local communities together and supporting their development, including the new refugee and asylum seeking communities that have arrived in Leicester over the last few years.
		A newly established group, the Highfields Users' Campaign, has organised a series of events to defend the community centre, including a public meeting attracting over 130 people and a demonstration in support of the existing team at HYCC, held in the Highfields area on 25 September 2004.
		The Campaign believes that Leicester's poorest communities, particularly its Black and Minority Ethnic members, have no real voice which means that, in the name of community cohesion, cutbacks to their services can be introduced without significant political cost for council leaders.
	www.irr.org.uk /2004/november/ak000014.html (1196 words)

	BBC - Leicester - Features - The Big Debate: Highfields Centre
		The head of the Highfields Community Association, Abdul Osman, says his organisation want to be given community governance, which means total control of the centre.
		This is because there has not been a final agreement between the Highfields Community Association and Leicester City Council over the governance of the building.
		The new centre is situated in the heart of Highfields in Leicester.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leicester/content/articles/2006/11/17/the_big_debate_highfields_centre_feature.shtml (467 words)

	Highfields Remembered
		The aim of this part of the project was to record reminiscences from people who had lived in the Highfields — an area which has been home to possibly a wider range of cultures than any other area in Leicester over the last 80 years.
		Extracts were published as a book entitled 'Highfields Remembered'.
		Some of the contributors to this project gave permission for their reminiscences and photographs to be published on the internet.
	westworld.dmu.ac.uk /fmp/web/highfields/mainmenu.html (424 words)

	Making do without the mainstream \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Leicester is one of Britain's most established Muslim communities.
		From the minute you walk into Highfields, it's impossible not to notice that Islam is the thread which binds the community together.
		It is possible to walk the streets of Highfields for hours and never see a white face.
	www.guardian.co.uk /religion/Story/0,2763,740459,00.html (1107 words)

	accf - leicester african caribbean citizens forum - monitoring leicester city council
		Leicester city PCT and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) are two of the pilot sites.
		A meeting has been arranged with the Leader of the Leicester City council for the 25th July 2007 to discuss issues and concerns on behalf of the community.
		Though he will be sad to leave the limelight he will continue with a number of his commitments in the community such as the Sickle Cell Association, and spending time re igniting his love for writing poetry.
	accf.info (653 words)

	CareOnLine: Highfields
		Support and advice is offered to the elderly service users from the BME communities throughout the city of Leicester, and the county of Leicestershire.
		Provides information, counselling, social, psychological and emotional support to those affected, their carers, family members and friends, also helps reasoned decisions to be made regarding care and treatment plans and present and future pregnancies.
		Leicester City Council (Education Dept) community facility offering a wide range of leisure activities; room space and resources to local community and voluntary groups and local agencies.
	www.leicscareonline.org.uk /highfields (2648 words)

	The Highfields Association of Residents and Tenants, Leicester, UK
		We are group of local residents from the Highfields area of Leicester who are interested in improving the area we live in.
		We are one way for local people to get their opinions and concerns across to the local government in order to make real changes to the area we live in.
		We also have good relationships with many of the local housing associations that are responsible for a large proportion of the housing in the Highfields area.
	www.geocities.com /hart_leicester/about.html (385 words)

	Wartime Leicestershire: Wartime Memoirs Index
		A Memoir of the Bombing of Leicester in the night's of the 19th and 20th November 1940.
		A memoir of the Leicester Blitz along the West End district of Leicester on the night of the 19th November 1940.
		An account of the Leicester Blitz on the Highfields district and the arrival of the American troops in Evington and Stoughton during 1944.
	www.wartimeleicestershire.com /pages/memoirs.htm (1017 words)

	BBC - Leicester Have Your Say - Ex-pats
		My name is Saad Abushabil.I lived in leicester from 80 to82.I am looking 4 an old friend cooled Dorothy Jean Freestone,and her daughter Rebecca,who lived at37-Roslyn St.highfields,Leicester.
		The school was on Regents Road in Leicester.
		I was born in Leicester in 1955 and lived on Halifax Drive.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leicester/have_your_say/expats/expats_02.shtml (615 words)

	Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees : contacts : contacts
		Voluntary Action Leicester (VAL) will shortly be publishing a searchable online database of voluntary groups in Leicester and has put together an excellent directory of agencies catering for the needs of asylum seekers and refugees.
		BBC Leicester is also planning to launch a campaign to set up a library of instruments which refugees could make use of.
		Its aim is to respond appropriately to the government's programme of dispersal, and to develop a multi-agency partnership approach to meeting the diverse housing, health, educational, social, cultural and religious needs of asylum seekers.
	www.icar.org.uk /?lid=1046 (3540 words)

	Leicester Bed and Breakfast, Cheap Hotel and Guest House Accommodation
		Lying on the River Soar at the edge of the English National Forest, Leicester is the largest city in the English east Midlands.
		Leicester is also the home of the Foxes, Leicester Tigers, Gary Linekar, Next Head Office and De Montford University.
		The National Space Centre is based in Leicester as the University of Leicester is one of the few UK universities that specialise in the subject.
	www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk /propertysearch.asp?townCity=Leicester (948 words)

	The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland
		A key feature of Leicester is the fact that it is equidistant from London, Manchester, and Leeds, with direct routes to Birmingham and Peterborough.
		Like many areas in the UK, Leicester is an established multicultural community, with the county's history of prosperity and its geographic location important 'pull' factors in attracting new residents.
		The Scarman Centre was established at the University of Leicester in 1987 as a centre of teaching, research, training, and consultancy into criminal justice, policing, crime prevention, security, risk management, and health and safety management.
	www.casbah.ac.uk /surveys/archivereportLEICS.stm (2905 words)

	ChavTowns - Leicester - Highfields
		If you know Leicester fairly well, you will be aware that, like most places, there are areas which are OK and others that are rather less so.
		Situated near the city centre, just north of London Road and not far from Evington, Highfields is truly the public lavatory of Leicester, where ‘society’s victims’ are cruelly dumped like a drunk’s rancid turd in a battered bus shelter.
		Where once the sturdy shoes of the honest citizen made their way to work along the well-swept pavements, now the stolen trainers of the unemployable chav scuff their way to the drug den among the joint butts, car-window glass and old nappies that are liberally scattered over the cracked concrete.
	www.chavtowns.co.uk /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=759 (294 words)

	Neighbourhood Management for St Peters Leicester by St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board
		The main reason being that people who live in areas like St Peters in Leicester have long had a genuine and deep seated wish to see the area in which they live attain to better standards.
		St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board are a group comprised of residents, Leicester City Council housing management staff and members of other agencies including the Leicestershire Police who have got together to improve the standard of living in St Peters, Leicester.
		When graffiti is left on a wall for over 40 days by leicester city council that surely represents excellent value for the time, effort and resources put into this delinquent past time by those who engage in it.
	www.stpetersnm.com (1464 words)

	Highfields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Although Leicester escaped bombing on the terrible scale seen in many other cities in Britain, over 100 people were killed in raids on the city in WW2.
		In November 1940 there was a raid on Leicester and several bombs fell on the Tichborne Street/Highfields Street, and Sparkenhoe Street areas of Highfields.
		In the area today the rule of thumb is that if you see a new building it has probably been built on an area cleared by one of these bombs.
	www.le.ac.uk /emoha/leicester/highfieldsbombs1.html (233 words)

	:: Headlines ::
		LHA (Leicester Housing Association), residents and funding partners have transformed a communal garden in Leicester.
		The communal garden, in Highfields, Leicester had been neglected for several years and LHA launched a consultation exercise in December 2005 to find out what improvements residents would like to see.
		LHA (Leicester Housing Association) and Newlife have been working in partnership since 2000 with the aim of improving incomes, life chances and employment prospects in local communities through training and job creation.
	www.lha.org.uk /news_archive/june_2006_news.htm (715 words)

	Leicester Student: LUBDS
		This society is set up to encourage and support the students of Leicester University and De Montfort University in learning Latin American and Modern Ballroom Dance.
		As well as being open to all university students, it is also open to the general public.
		This page is published by the Students' Union at the University of Leicester and is regulated by the Union's code of practice.
	www.leicesterstudent.org /main/activities/socs/performance/ballroom (296 words)

	Leicester City Council - Highfields Minimum Wage Intelligence Project
		Highfields Minimum Wage Project is a partnership project funded by the Department of Trade and Industry through the Inland Revenue and also involving Leicester City Council, who manage the project, and the trade union KFAT.
		It is a proactive project, working in the community to ensure that all workers are paid their entitlement to the minimum wage.
		The Impact of the Minimum Wage among ethnic minority workers in Leicester
	www.leicester.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=4058&menu=off (195 words)

	National Civil Rights Movement
		Beyond the political spin and sound bites of race and asylum issues there are real life stories of individuals and families in Leicester who are demanding the right to live in safety and to contribute their skills and experiences to the local communities.
		Leicester Civil Rights Movement, a local group set up to support asylum seekers and local families who have experienced racism and miscarriages of justice will be hosting a national conference titled Building a United Future on Saturday 26 May 2001 at Highfields Youth and Community Centre.
		According to Priya Thamotheram, Chair of Leicester Civil Rights Movement, 'It is very positive that this conference is being hosted in Leicester.
	www.hambastegi.org /NewsRelease/press052301.htm (533 words)

	Becta :: Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The project was set up three years ago by Julia Ipgrave, who teaches at a predominantly Muslim, inner city junior school in Leicester.
		She forged an electronic link with another school in the city and the pupil-to-pupil dialogue that developed has become a key component of the Years 5 and 6 programmes of study in both schools.
		The project has now expanded to include other schools in Leicester and over 20 schools in suburban and rural East Sussex.
	www.becta.org.uk /corporate/display.cfm?section=21&id=2471 (291 words)

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