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Children's Services, Royal Mail & A Local Landfill

Start your day with the latest news and updates, with Jim and Jo at breakfast.

It's almost a year now since Leicester City Council's children's services department was branded inadequate by Ofsted. But this morning it's emerged it could yet be another two years before things are turned around. That's as a new report into the problems is discussed by councillors on a scrutiny committee tonight.
Also, a year of special celebrations will begin this morning to mark the 500th anniversary of the Royal Mail. The world's first postal network began in 1516 when Henry VIII knighted Brian Tuke and appointed him as the Master of the Posts. Well King Henry VIII founded the Royal mail five hundred years ago, there's no way he could have imagined how communication would change, with emails, texts and twitter. In fact, it got 大象传媒 Radio Leicester's Matt Smith and Jack Rafferty wondering if Henry would still stand by the humble letter in the face of modern technology.
And, a controversial giant landfill site is to be shut down and landscaped - even though it'll only be a third full when it closes. The New Albion site near Boothorpe on the South Derbyshire and North west Leicestershire border opened in 2005, despite long-running local opposition. Now the former clay works is to be restored with a lake and woodland walks by the end of the year. The operators Veolia say with more waste being recycled and higher landfill tax, it could take 50 years to fill up and is no longer commercially viable.

Also in the show, have you got your Christmas decorations down yet? We speak to the Leicester couple who expect the job to take them weeks, and meet the first chaplain in the UK who'll be administering care for those with no religious faith in Leicester's hospitals.

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Tue 5 Jan 2016 06:00

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  • Tue 5 Jan 2016 06:00