Showing posts with label Aylestone Meadows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aylestone Meadows. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Aylestone Village and Earl Russell

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Yesterday I defeated the weather and explored Aylestone village. The first time I tried was the day I found C.P. Snow's birthplace ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Leicestershire wildlife latest

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A lunar hornet moth yesterday Rare insects have been discovered munching their way through – and killing – trees at a nature reserve.  ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Unique willow tree found on Aylestone Meadows

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The Leicester Mercury - quite possibly correctly - claims a "World Exclusive" for its story about a unique willow tree being foun...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Health: Opposing Andrew Lansley is not enough

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Like David Boyle I am left a little underwhelmed by the Liberal Democrats' success in bringing about changes to the Health and Social C...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Senior Leicester councillor calls for taxpayers to fund Labour propaganda

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Labour councillor Robert Wann - the man who wanted to build on the city's major nature reserve - wants to use a publicly funded magazin...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Leicester City Council finds alternative site for Aylestone Meadows football pitches

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Today's Leicester Mercury carries the less than startling news that an alternative to siting football pitches and their accompanying d...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Leicester politics getting stranger by the day

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Leicester politics have been particularly interesting to late and show no sign of calming down any time soon. The latest news is that Nige...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How Aylestone Meadows were saved

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In fact I have been warned that someone may come back with a similar planning application one day, but I thought this photograph of the ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Aylestone Meadows saved

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According to a tweet from Peter Bedford , Leicester City Council's planning committee has turned down the application to build sports fa...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Labour and Lib Dem Mayoral candidates oppose development of Aylestone Meadows

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There are signs today that the campaign against the building of football pitches and their associated facilities on the nature reserve at Ay...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How Robert Wann has changed his tune over the environment

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One notable feature of the controversy over the proposed development of Aylestone Meadows in Leicester has been the way that Robert Wann, th...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Yesterday's protest march at Aylestone Meadows

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From today's Leicester Mercury : Nearly 400 people, some with horses and dogs, turned out yesterday to protest against plans for a fo...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Campaign to save Aylestone Meadows wins support from Europa Nostra

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Hundreds of people marched (very carefully) through the Aylestone Meadows nature reserve in Leicester this afternoon as part of the campaig...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

The London Olympics will not make people more physically active

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An article in the New York Times by Jeré Longman echoes an argument that I have long made on this blog: there is no reason to expect that t...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Leicester City Council has already spent £150,000 on the Aylestone Meadows site

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This blog has been covering the opposition to Leicester City Council's plans to build build build all-weather sports pitches and an acco...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Six of the Best 126

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On The Andrew Marr Show this morning Ed Balls claimed that the last Labour government did not run a structural deficit. Nick Thornsby's ...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Leicester Labour falling out over Aylestone Meadows

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The internal politics of the Labour group that runs Leicester City Council are bloody and obscure. I once commissioned a Liberator article ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

The Campaign to save Aylestone Meadows

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The excellent Leicester Civic Society has a webpage devoted to the campaign to save Aylestone Meadows .
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Aylestone Meadows football pitch plan branded "senseless"

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I have written before about opposition to Leicester City Council's plans to site an AstroTurf sports pitch and an accompanying clubhous...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Demonstration against development on Aylestone Meadows

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The Leicester Mercury reports that a demonstration is to be held on Thursday (16 September) at 4.15 p.m. outside Leicester Town Hall agains...
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