The largest branches are found in Glasgow, Leicester, London and the West Midlands conurbation ( largely Birmingham ).

The nearest London Underground stations are Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.

The three sections between Norton junction and the River Trent ( collectively known as the ' Leicester line ') are mixed in size.

From Leicester to the Trent, the route is effectively the River Soar and the locks and bridges are wide.

On the Leicester Line there are two arms.

Robert Garner of the University of Leicester writes that Newkirk and Pacheco are the leading exporters of animal rights to the more moderate groups in the United States — both members of an animal rights elite that he argues has shaken up the animal rights movement, setting up new groups and radicalizing old ones.

Tangy Cheshire, salty Caerphilly, Sage Derby, Lancashire Cheese, Red Leicester, creamy Double Gloucester and sweet Wensleydale are some traditional regional varieties.

London Underground provide Hounslow West tube station, Hounslow Central and Hounslow East which are on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow, Osterley, Hammersmith, Knightsbridge, stations for Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Cockfosters.

The electrical cables to the substation are in a large tunnel ending at Leicester Square, and originating in Wimbledon, at Plough Lane, behind the former Wimbledon FC football ground, before which the cables are above ground.

Both men are memorialized in Leicester street names ( Peter Salem Road, Pitcairn Avenue ).

There are also regular, direct services to Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Bedford, Burton upon Trent, Leicester, Loughborough, Tamworth ( for WCML ), Newark ( Castle ), Luton, East Midlands Parkway ( for the Airport ), Birmingham ( New Street ) and Matlock.

Parts of the East Midlands are also densely populated, particularly the triangle formed by the cities of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby, which also includes sizeable towns such as Loughborough and the Long Eaton – Beeston – Stapleford subconurbation.

Also part of the line, as defined by Network Rail, are the Erewash Valley Line, the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line, the Oakham to Kettering Line and sections of the Nottingham to Lincoln Line ( as far east as Newark ) and the Birmingham to Peterborough Line ( between Nuneaton and Oakham ).

Foxton Locks () are ten canal locks consisting of two " staircases " each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton.

Leicester and thereafter Birmingham are next closest major cities.

Middlesbrough Ironopolis and Northwich Victoria are expelled from the league and three new clubs are elected: Bury, Burton Wanderers ( league membership 1894 – 97 ) and Leicester Fosse ( Leicester City ).

On all four platforms, film sprockets are painted down the entire length and on the top and bottom of the display area ( blue on the Piccadilly line platforms, and black on the Northern line platforms ), due to the four premiere cinemas in Leicester Square.

The subsidiary titles of the dukedom are: Marquess of Granby ( created 1703 ), Earl of Rutland ( 1525 ), Baron Manners, of Haddon in the County of Derby ( 1679 ), and Baron Roos of Belvoir, of Belvoir in the County of Leicester ( 1896 ).

* Leicester City and Brighton & Hove Albion are the only clubs to win just the Shield, never the FA Cup or the League ; Leicester won as Second Division champion ( see above ) and Brighton as Southern League champions.

Thus we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.

Its underlying political agenda is the succession of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne, but its most outstanding feature is an allround attack on the Earl of Leicester.

Some of the most often-quoted characterisations of Leicester, such as that he " was wont to put up all his passions in his pocket ", his nickname of " the Gypsy ", and Elizabeth's " I will have here but one mistress and no master "- reprimand to him, were contributed by Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Robert Naunton almost half a century after the Earl's death.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

Sharp had previously snubbed Southampton's interest in the 2011 transfer window, and promotion favourites Leicester in January, and chose to sell his service to the Saints where promotion to the Premier League seemed most likely.

* John Anderson ( footballer born 1929 ) ( 1929 – 2001 ), Scottish footballer, who most notably played for Leicester City

* Odeon Leicester Square, which dominates the east side of the square, had the first digital projector in Europe ( 1999 ), hosting most premieres with capacity for 1683 people, arranged in circle and stalls.

Before incorporation, most of Auburn was known as the South Parish of Worcester ; other portions fell within the town limits of Leicester and Millbury.

Leicester today is one of the most northernmost communities within the Blackstone River Valley, National Heritage Corridor.

Additionally, most of Worcester's Kettle Brook water reservoir system is in Leicester.

One of the most noteworthy is in the west of Hartshill Hayes Country Park from where looking north Atherstone can be seen and looking northeast Leicester can be seen, depending on favourable visibility.

He was elected MP for Leicester for the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659 and became one of the most influential men in both the Council of State and Parliament.

One of the most famous of these new palaces of pleasure in the West End was the Empire, Leicester Square, built as a theatre in 1884 but acquiring a music hall licence in 1887.

Considered one of his most important works, Nichols's monumental History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, was the most ambitious of the antiquarian county histories ( extremely long, but the quality of the content is very variable ), a massive compendium of historical notes, manuscripts and engraved plates printed by subscription after an exhaustive survey of the county, and published in eight parts not in chronological order to make up four volumes when complete, from 1795 – 1815.

In England Coventry is the most important seat of ribbon-making, which is also prosecuted at Norwich and Leicester.

Among Londoners, the Euston Tower was most famous for being the home of Capital Radio from 1973 until 1997, when it moved to Leicester Square.

Leicester are also the only English side to have qualified to play in every Heineken Cup in which English teams have participated, and are also the most successful English side in Europe ; back-to-back champions in 2001 and 2002 and losing finalists in 1997, 2007 and 2009.

Leicester also hold the record for most titles ( 9 ), the most consecutive Premiership Final appearances ( 8 ), most ( first ) away semi-final victories in the Premiership play-offs.

Chiltern Railways has suggested that it has a long-term aspiration to reopen the Great Central Main Line between Aylesbury and Rugby and, if successful, Leicester.

Once again Leicester were successful late on, this time utilising Andy Goode's kicking to secure a last minute victory.

Although ultimately unsuccessful against Leicester City in the final, Coppell ( now first-team manager following Bassett's departure to Nottingham Forest in early 1997 ) was successful in taking the club back to the FA Premier League at the second time of asking when the club defeated Sheffield United in the same end-of-season showdown at Wembley.

Wise's time at Leicester was less successful and equally marred by controversy.

Bath have won the cup ten times, with Leicester Tigers the second most successful club with seven, including their wins over the Ospreys in the 2006 – 07 final and Northampton in the 2011-12 final, and Gloucester in third place with five titles.

Wheeler was a very successful captain of Leicester Tigers winning the league once and the John Player Cup 3 times in consecutive years.

William Beaumont-Smith ( WBS ) appears to have begun his career working for Parsons & Dain who were quite a successful firm of local architects in the early Victorian period, William Parsons being responsible for some of Leicester's grand civic buildings including the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum ( later part of the University of Leicester ) and the Theatre Royal ( now demolished ).

The combined strength of the new teams was supposed to build on such modest progress and initially some very successful results were achieved including the 1999 win against Leicester ( 30 – 17 ) but overall the team lacked consistency.

If successful, this claim would not only have implied that Lettice Knollys ' union with Leicester had been bigamous, but would also have nullified her jointure rights.

The most successful ( in terms of student media awards ) include: Nouse ( University of York ), York Vision ( University of York ), Felix ( Imperial College ), Cherwell, The Oxford Student ( University of Oxford ), The Badger ( University of Sussex ), gair rhydd ( Cardiff University ), The Beaver ( London School of Economics ), Glasgow University Guardian ( Glasgow University ), The Boar ( University of Warwick ), Leeds Student ( University of Leeds ), Student ( University of Edinburgh ), The Steel Press ( University of Sheffield ), The Courier ( University of Newcastle ), The Saint ( University of St Andrews ), Varsity, The Cambridge Student, The Tab ( University of Cambridge ), Epigram ( University of Bristol ), The Ripple ( newspaper ) ( University of Leicester ), Exeposé ( University of Exeter ) Spark * ( University of Reading ), The Gaudie ( University of Aberdeen ), The Knowledge ( University of Plymouth ) and LeNurb ( Brunel University ).

After three successful years at Vale he signed to Leicester City in 1997.

Plans for the Gamston ground were exhibitied to the FA World Cup committee in 2009, and Nottingham's plans for a new ground and waterside Fan Park using the River Trent, meant they were successful in getting through to the next stage of potential host cities for the 2018 World Cup bid, even beating plans by neighbours Derby and Leicester, who already had new stadiums but were eliminated from the Host City pool.

A day later Leicester signed Hobbs on a permanent deal for an undisclosed fee on 24 April 2009, signing a four-year contract after a successful season with the club.

The most successful years were the late 1960s and 1970s, this included reaching the RFU Knock-out cup final on three occasions-losing 17-6 to Gloucester and then 15-12 to Leicester before emerging joint winners drawing 12-12 with Gloucester after extra time in 1982.