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.

It is also one of the major venues in Leicester to hold the Hindu festival of Navratri, selling out of tickets every year.

In 1868, the 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury inherited the Earldom of Cardigan, and so the Marquesses of Ailesbury now also hold the titles Earl of Cardigan ( 1661 ) and Baron Brudenell, of Stanton Wyvill in the County of Leicester ( 1628 ), in the Peerage of England, as well as being Baronets of England, styled " of Deene in the County of Northampton ".

* Leicester City – When Leicester restructured their debt after going into administration in 2002, enabling them to hold on to a string of Premiership stars who ordinarily would have been sold to stay afloat, they gained promotion to the Premiership, at the expense of Sheffield United, who had to make do with a play-off place.

He first enters the historical record as a performer with Leicester's Men at Leicester House in May 1585 and continued in this service after Leicester's departure for the Low Countries to take part in the Eighty Years ' War.

Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions-3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010.

Leicester have also appeared in a record eight successive Premiership finals since 2005.

Leicester during this time had a very good home record ; they went 57 games unbeaten at home in a period that stretched from 30 December 1997 to 30 November 2002 and included 52 successive wins.

Toulouse have won the competition a record four times, Leinster three times, while Munster, Leicester Tigers and London Wasps have won it twice each.

While others have since overtaken Daniel Lambert's record as the heaviest person in history, he remains a popular character in Leicester, and in 2009 was described by the Leicester Mercury as " one of the city's most cherished icons ".

They were placed in the Third Division on its formation at the start of the 1958 – 59 season ; future England international goalkeeper Gordon Banks made his professional debut in a Third Division game in November 1958, but was sold to Leicester City for a then-club record £ 7, 000 fee at the end of the season.

British Labour MP Keith Vaz led a march through Leicester shortly after he was elected in 1989 calling for the book to be banned, while Conservative MP Norman Tebbit, the party's former chairman, called Rushdie an " outstanding villain " whose " public life has been a record of despicable acts of betrayal of his upbringing, religion, adopted home and nationality ".

The next season they continued to falter, losing 10 – 0 to Leicester City, still a club record defeat.

Trautmann played in 34 of these matches, and though he did not play in the 9 – 2 defeat to West Bromwich Albion, an 8 – 4 defeat to Leicester City was a record for the most goals conceded by Trautmann in a match in his career, and in the entire season he kept only two clean sheets.

* 18 December 2002-Football mourns the deaths of Football Association chairman Sir Bert Millichip, 88, and former Leicester City and Shrewsbury Town striker Arthur Rowley, 76, who scored a record 434 league goals during his 19-year career.

Stimpson won a record five consecutive Premiership titles with Newcastle Falcons and Leicester Tigers.

Fry's record of 13 centuries in a season and, in one six-day period, scored two centuries at Trent Bridge and two more at Leicester.

This record stood until 19 Sept 2009, when Leicester opened their new stand to 24, 000.

2006 – 07 was a disappointing season for Munster, losing their previously unbeaten European record at Thomond Park, by going down to the Leicester Tigers in the group stages.

His impressive record in Scotland caught the attention of Leicester City, who appointed Levein as manager on 29 October 2004.

By 1525 at the latest Aston was settled and working in Leicester, as a verbatim record of his evidence given to a Bishop ’ s Visitation on 27th & 28th November 1525 is preserved in the Lincoln Diocesan Records, and he seems to have stayed in Leicester for the rest of his life.

Benjamin holds the record of most appearances made from the bench by any Leicester City player he also holds the record for the most league clubs played for which so far is 16 in total.

Ultimately he was allowed by manager John Gregory to leave on a free transfer to Leicester City where under Martin O ' Neill he regained some of the early form when he scored a hat trick against Sunderland in a 5 – 2 victory, in which Martin O ' Neill went on record to describe the Leicester City side on that day, as the best side he has managed to date.

Oxford openly quarrelled with Leicester about this time ; he was confined to his chamber at Greenwich for some time ' about the libelling between him and my Lord of Leicester '.

In the summer of 1580, Gabriel Harvey, apparently motivated by a desire to ingratiate himself with Leicester, satirized Oxford's love for things Italian in verses entitled Speculum Tuscanismi in Three Proper and Witty Familiar Letters.

Leicester is credited for having " dislodged Oxford from the pro-French group ", i. e., the group at court which favoured Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Anjou.

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 ".

On at least one occasion he delivered diplomatic letters to England for Walsingham, Burghley, and Leicester, as well as for the queen.

He played just 23 games for the club before First Division Leicester City offered Chesterfield £ 7, 000 in the summer of 1959.

After four games for the reserves, he replaced the injured Dave McLaren for his Leicester City debut in a 1 – 1 draw against Blackpool on 9 September 1959 and retained his place for the 2 – 0 defeat against Newcastle 3 days later.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

When Shilton told Leicester he would not sign a professional contract unless he was guaranteed first team football, Banks found himself available for transfer, just a year after winning the World Cup.

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.

Another six-figure sum donor was Emile Heskey, who had not only followed in Lineker's footsteps by going to the same school as him, but also went on to play for Leicester City and England.

Priest's wife kept a boarding school for young gentlewomen, first in Leicester Fields and afterwards at Chelsea, where the opera was performed.

* John Brown ( footballer born 1901 ) ( 1901 – 1977 ), English footballer for Leicester City and Wrexham

William worked for Leicester County Borough Council as a gardener and Elsie worked in the local footwear industry until tuberculosis cost her a lung.

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

Margaret removed Henry from London in 1456 for his own safety and until 1461, Henry's court divided almost all its time among Kenilworth, Leicester and Tutbury Castle for the purposes of protection.

It serves many of London's top tourist attractions including Harrods, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus ( after which the line is named ), Leicester Square and Covent Garden, as well as Britain's biggest airport, Heathrow.

Leicester plays hosts to some of the biggest celebrations outside of India.

One of the biggest developments in the town's history, the multi-million pound Ropewalk Shopping Centre, opened on 1 September 2005 in the hope that it will give the town extra income from the shopping, attract more visitors and retailers, and steer shoppers away from larger retail centres such as Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester and Solihull, with other shopping available at the longer established Abbeygate Shopping Centre located in the centre of the town.

Their biggest rivals are Leicester Tigers.

Fosse Shopping Park is one of Britain's biggest out-of-town shopping parks and it is situated in Enderby parish, in Blaby district, on the southern edge of the city of Leicester, England.