MP LIZ HELPS REOPEN GYM

This article appears in today's Leicester Mercury:

MP Liz helps reopen gym

A community gym has been reopened after a revamp.

The Guru Nanak Community Centre, in Holy Bones, Leicester, was awarded £1,300 by the city council to buy new equipment.

MP Liz Kendall was invited to reopen the gym.

Ms Kendall said: "It was a real pleasure.

"We all know the benefits of exercise.

"Having decent facilities really helps people keep fit and active and this can transform our health and well-being.

"In this Olympic month, it was great to be opening locally supported facilities which stand to benefit many of my constituents."

The gym is free to use and is accessible to people of all ages.

Sulakhan Singh Dard, vice-president of the community centre said: "It will help promote good health, particularly among the more elderly members of the community."

PEACE VIGIL AT CLOCK TOWER

The Clock Tower is the location for a Peace Vigil at 1630, in advance of the demonstration by the English Defence League and counter-demonstration by Unite Against Fascism in the city centre tomorrow afternoon.

Cllr Manjula Sood, Chair of Leicester Council of Faiths, addresses the crowd (in photo above). You'll see that she's wearing the lime green that has been adopted as the visible expression of the city's united objection to the protest. This colour is much in evidence in the city centre this weekend. In the photo below, Liz Kendall MP (Labour, Leicester West) is in black with the green scarf. Documentary film maker, Lucy Bianca Peel, is on the far right (of the photo, not politically!)

The vigil has been organised by Hope Not Hate. You can read Nick Lowles' blog post about it. Photos by Citizens' Eye Community News Agency, used here with permission.