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It was always going to prove a tough sell. Shut down a busy city centre fire station, another in one of our most densely-populated villages, cut back on frontline firefighters and scrap 11 fire engines. But yesterday we were told those controversial cuts to Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service will not now happen. It's after the local fire authority revealed it was 拢2,000,000 better off than it was expecting. So is that an end to it?
Also, litter picking is something we hear about quite a lot, but one group in North West Leicestershire have surpassed themselves over the past year - collecting more than 2,000 bags of rubbish! The work's been done by members of the Thringstone Community Group. 麻豆社 Radio Leicester's Helen McCarthy is there for us this morning.
And, a new group, teaching craftwork to people with mental health problems in Leicester, is helping to save lives. Little Bird SOS is one of a number of schemes that is being supported by a new 拢200,000 fund from West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group. "Social Seeding" is being used to help people in communities that have in the past proven hard to reach, like the homeless, and drug and alcohol addicts. 麻豆社 Radio Leicester's Jo Hollis has been along to Little Bird SOS to see the work they do there.