[68] 11.3 days of the year should attain a temperature of 25.1 °C (77.2 °F) or above.[69]. Leicester is at the nexus of the A6/(A14), A50, A47 and A607 trunk roads and A426 and A5199 primary routes. In the private sector are Nuffield Hospital Leicester and the Spire Hospital Leicester. Its memory was preserved as the Cair Lerion[19] of the History of the Britons. [55], In the 1990s, a group of Dutch citizens of Somali origin settled in the city. Leicester City Primary Care Trust employs over 1,000 full and part-time staff providing healthcare services in the city. In 1987 the first Asian Mayor of Leicester was indirectly elected by the councillors, Councillor Gordhan Parmar. The Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, Leicester,[109] usually known as Leicester Cathedral,[110] is the Church of England cathedral and is the seat of the Bishop of Leicester. Leicester has been particularly badly affected in the United Kingdom from July 2020 during the imposition of the first local lockdown which saw all non-essential retail closed again and businesses such as public houses, restaurants and hairdressers unable to reopen. The Clarendon Park and New Walk areas of the city, along with an unnamed Charnwood village ("vaguely based upon Cossington", according to the author) are some of the settings of the 2014 novel The Knot of Isis by Chrid McGordon.
Between 1861 and 1901, Leicester's population increased from 68,100 to 211,600[citation needed]and the proportion employed in trade, commerce, building, and the city's new factories and workshops rose steadily. The lowest temperature recorded at Newtown Linford was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) during January 1963. [citation needed] The current nearest weather station is Market Bosworth, about 10 miles (16 km) west of the city centre. Knowledge of the town following the Roman withdrawal from Britain is limited. A third major revision of the boundaries took place in 1966, with the net addition to the city of just over 450 acres (182 ha). [99] In 2017 Peter Soulsby, Mayor of Leicester called together 40 regulatory organisation to coordinate a response.

The opening of the Haymarket Shopping Centre in 1971 was followed by a number of new shopping centres in the city, including St Martin's Shopping Centre in 1984 and the Shire Shopping Centre in 1992.

St Martin's Square and the Leicester Lanes area has numerous designer and specialist shops; several of the city's Victorian arcades are located in the same neighbourhood. Certain European languages such as Polish will undoubtedly feature in current statistics, although their prevalence may reduce subsequently as future generations rapidly assimilate or return to places of origin, given cultural and geographic proximity and changes in the geo-political environment. "[57], Forty years later, Leicester's mayor Sir Peter Soulsby expressed his regret for the behaviour of the council at the time. When his son became king, the Earldom of Leicester and the Duchy of Lancaster became royal titles (and the latter remains so). Suivez le match Leicester City - Birmingham City en direct LIVE !
Certainly there is some continuation of occupation of the town, though on a much reduced scale in the 5th and 6th centuries. The later Roman name was a latinate form of the Brittonic word for "ramparts" (cf. [46] The Shires was subsequently expanded in September 2008 and rebranded as Highcross.

The church (described by Leland in the C16th as "not large but exceeding fair") also became, effectively, a Lancastrian mausoleum. Shopping: Abbey Lane-grandes surfaces, Beaumont Shopping Centre, Belvoir Street/Market Street, Fosse Shopping Park, Golden Mile, Haymarket Shopping Centre, Highcross, Leicester Lanes, Leicester Market, St Martin's Square, Silver Arcade area. The population of the Leicester unitary authority area is marginally higher than that of Nottingham, while Nottingham has a higher urban area population compared to Leicester. Welford Road – Leicester Tigers,

[66] However, the highest temperature since records began in Leicester is 36.7 °C (98.1 °F) on 15 July 1868. Eurostat's Larger Urban Zone lists the population of the Leicester LUZ at 886,673 (2017) below that of Nottingham;[85] metropolitan and city region populations tend to be similar. [11], Based on the Welsh name (given as Kaerleir), Geoffrey of Monmouth proposes a king Leir of Britain as an eponymous founder in his Historia Regum Britanniae (12th century).[12]. [citation needed] Henry Walker's butcher shop at 4–6 Cheapside sold Walker's sausages and pork pies until March 2012 when owner Scottish Fife Fine Foods ceased trading, although the shop was temporarily open and selling Walker's pies for the Christmas 2012 season.[106].