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It's make or break time for Leicester's Park and Ride services, that's according to City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby. The three park and ride services at Birstall, Maynell's Gorse, and Enderby and are a key part of the councils strategy to reduce car usage in the city centre and are currently subsidised by Leicester City and Leicestershire County Council to the tune of six hundred-and-sixty-four-thousand pounds. Speaking at the first of a series of "Question Time" style event hosted by 大象传媒 Radio Leicester's Ben Jackson, Sir Peter was asked about the future of the service.
Also, around a decade ago, the then Health Secretary John Reid controversially declared that poorer people should be allowed to smoke - given that its one of their few joys in life. More than ten years on however and new figures show that tens-of-thousands of people living in poverty in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland could in fact be lifted out of it - if they quit smoking altogether. The campaign group Action on Smoking and Health, or ASH for short, says if people living in poor conditions gave up on cigarettes, the savings they'd make would mean roughly 21-thousand people in our area would no longer be below the poverty line.
And, An 8 week trial will start today, in a bid to reduce the time ambulances spend waiting at Leicester's Royal Infirmary. It's after Paramedics working for East Midlands Ambulance Service revealed earlier this month they were regularly having to wait hours before being able to hand over patients. That led to talks between bosses from both sides earlier this month.