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| City of Leicester | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Unitary, City (1919) |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Ceremonial County: | Leicestershire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 276th 73.32 km˛ |
| Admin. HQ: | Leicester |
| ONS code: | 00FN |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 21st 283,578 3,868 / km˛ |
| Ethnicity: | 63.9% White 29.9% S.Asian 3.1% Afro-Carib. |
| Politics | |
| Leicester City Council http://www.leicester.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Liberal DemocratsThe Liberal Democrats ("Lib Dems") are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an allian + ConservativeThe Conservative Party is the largest centre right political party in the United Kingdom. It is descended from the Tory Party and its members are still commonly referred to as Tories''. It votes with the European People's Party bloc in the European Parlia |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | Parmjit Singh GillParmjit Singh Gill is a British Liberal Democrat politician and Member of Parliament for Leicester South. He is the first ever ethnic minority Liberal Democrat MP. He is a councillor for the Stoneygate Ward in Leicester, and was the Liberal Democrat's can, Patricia HewittThe Right Honourable Patricia Hewitt (born December 22 1948) is an English politician. She was born in Canberra in Australia but moved to the United Kingdom to study at Newnham College, Cambridge, and stayed, joining the Labour Party in the 1970s. She was, Keith VazKeith Vaz (born 1956) is a British politician, and MP for Leicester East for the Labour party. He was born in Aden in 1956, where his father (originally from Goa) was a foreign correspondent for the Times of India. His family moved to Twickenham in Englan |
Leicester (pronounced Lester) is a city in the English MidlandsThe midlands of a territory are its central regions. The Midlands (with a capital M usually means the English Midlands, an area generally considered to include the counties of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nott, on the River SoarThe River Soar is a tributary of the River Trent in the English East Midlands. It rises near Hinckley in Leicestershire and flows through Leicester (where it is joined by the Grand Union Canal at Aylestone), Barrow-on-Soar and Kegworth, before joining the. It is the traditional county town of Leicestershire (the administrative centre now being Glenfield). It lies on the edge of the National Forest. The 2001 census recorded a population of 279,921.
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