Leicester - The Real story

Leicester based Zambian/Irish family rock!

2011-03-02T14:22:00.000-08:00

Leicester based Zambian Irish family release rock video on youtube.

They are putting up more songs in the next week although the next video wont be for another couple of weeks.

Music player from Reverbnation

2011-02-27T15:59:00.001-08:00

Ethnic monitoring, just say no

2007-07-22T11:06:00.000-07:00

Im Irish, came here via London 15 years ago. I go back to Ireland for holidays and visits but I consider myself a Leicester man now.
leicester is a great melting pot and is truly the most cosmopolitan town in the UK
In Leicester you have to get integrated, there is no choice and we could teach the rest of the UK a few lessons in integration.

We should lead the way and get the council to get rid of all ethnic monitoring on the grounds that this is Leicester and WE DONT NEED THAT.

Collect information about access to broadband or skills held or something that is actually a useful piece of information.

I am Irish and I am Leicester.

I have often sat in a room in Leicester where every person is a differant ethnic group. We already know that we are differant people. We dont need to classify ourselves in that way.
If race as a concept is taken to its ultimate then we are all in our own race. It is a completely stupid concept that has no place in a modern society. Sadly our government seems to believe in the concept as an article of faith. Remember they wanted to introduce ethnic monitoring on the week that South Africa removed the requirement from registration of births.

Cats - 44964 thousand per square mile

2007-07-21T17:17:00.000-07:00

The St Matthews estate is approximately 0.08896 square miles in size. There is at least 2000 housing units on the estate. The Council allows each premises to have two pets although private owners may be allowed have more. This means that the council is happy to tolerate 44964 cats per square mile. Is this density cruel to cats or humans.

I personally suffer from cats furiously spraying and scent marking their tiny territories and would like clarification on the councils position.

Is there a recommended cat population density?
Maybe the reintroduction of the wolf might help.

Defoliant used on entire city, £50,000 a kilo for nettles

2007-07-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

Leicester City Council buys 2300 litres of Roundup (Glycosphate) defoliant every year. (Freedom of Information stat.) .
As each litre is sufficient according to the label for a thousand square metres this amounts to 568.34238 acres. or 2.3 square kilometres.

Abbey park is 57 acres. So does Leicester City Council defoliate an area of land 10 times the size of the citys biggest park. And in this age of maintaining carbon balance, is it legal?. It is well known fact that removing the surface organic growth decreases the amount of carbon sequestered per metre.
When plants are left to grow they capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and over time build up a higher biomass (Roots in the soil, trunks, humus from falling leaves, bacteria, invertebrates and dare I say mammals and birds.)

I have asked them not to spray around my house and usually they comply although we had a little accident last year.

6 years ago when they started with the spraying they sprayed nettles which I had growing in amongst flowers in my flower bed. They compensated me for my nettles as I said I wanted them there to encourage butterflies. They paid £150 for about 3 grms of dried nettle. This is the equivalent of £49,999 per kilo. Gold is today at £10,675 per kilo. (Five years ago it was worth a lot less then that.)

The strategy geeks and policy wonks at Environment city need to have a rethink.