Updates for Thursday 19 May 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
The Lord Mayor of Leicester will hand over the chains today as he stands down from his year in charge.
It's pretty much just a ceremonial role but the mayor will usually carry out charitable duties.
This morning BBC Radio Leicester were at Overdale Junior School in Leicester because their "The Spark" project was one of the charities Lord Mayor Ted Cassidy chose to support.
Nice headcover Marc Warren...
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Scottsman's Caddie, Ken Herring, is a Leicester City supporter.
He's been showing off Filbert Fox ahead of the Irish Open.
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Cloudy with some brighter intervals throughout the afternoon and the chance of an isolated shower. Rain pushing in from the west in the early evening. Feeling warmer.
Max Temp: 19C (66F).
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
The "Vote Leave" battle bus is in Leicester today... looks like our Tim is getting bored.
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The "Stronger In" tour bus has already been to Leicester, it went to DMU last month.
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Oh wow - this is looking even more amazing now!
If you haven't been to see it yet, it's on Kate Street in Leicester.
Image source, Leicestershire Police
BBC Sport
Leicestershire all-rounder Tom Wells has signed a two-year deal to keep him at the club until the end of the 2018 season.
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BBC Local Live
The Leicester City players have been holding an open top bus victory parade in Bangkok today.
It was organised by the clubs Thai owners.
Image source, Getty ImagesOur reporter over there says people lined the street but he only met three genuine fans.
Most of people were paid staff of King Power.
Police are hunting a serial thief who has struck at several supermarkets, external in Leicestershire and other counties.
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
We've managed to find a taxi driver who's been caught out by the new penalty points scheme
He's been given four points for parking outside a takeaway because a private hire vehicle took his rank space.
He said he was only parked for two minutes and the city council took a photo of his vehicle. He said he's going to appeal.
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
Every brick is removed individually and by hand. The ones that need replacing have a yellow mark on them.
Peter Falen says the faults in the bricks are just down to their age, he says they're starting to "delaminate".
BBC Leicester Sport
Great Britain claimed more medals on night three of the European Swimming Championships in London.
Loughborough's Fran Halsall was part of the mixed 4x100m relay team who won gold.
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BBC Local Live
The wall is 14m high and being a prison, the contractors doing the work have had to be extra careful.
They're using cherry pickers to reach the high bits because scaffolding could make it easier for intruders to break in with contraband.
That's not all. Peter Falen is the project manager and says: "You can't be working on the same panels interior and exterior because it could be an escape aid for prisoners.
"It's called mirroring. If we were working on the same panel and a prisoner was able to get to our machinery inside he'd be able to climb up that one and then climb down the one on the outside so we work on alternate sides."
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
If you've driven past Leicester Prison in the last few months you may have spotted the workmen there removing bricks from one of the walls - but don't worry it's not part of an escape plan!
They're carrying out repair work to the Victorian building that's expected to cost nearly £1m.
About 7,000 bricks are being replaced in the wall, which is one of the largest prison walls in the country.
BBC Leicester Sport
We've heard all about the Leicester City players picking up awards for their season, now it's the turn of Leicester Tigers.
Harry Thacker's stunning touchdown against Northampton Saints was named Try of the Season at last night's Premiership Awards ceremony.
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BBC Local Live
The city mayor faced numerous protests from the RMT union members when he announced he was going to trial the taxi driver points scheme.
Sir Peter Soulsby stuck to his guns though.
He says: "These figures make it clear that while the vast majority of the city's 2,000 or so licensed taxi drivers comply with the reasonable standards we expect from them, there are some who are falling short of that.
"We are now five months into that 12-month period, and I intend to let the pilot scheme run its course before deciding whether or not it should become permanent."
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
The figures on penalty points handed out to taxi drivers could more than double very soon because there are 28 cases of potential rule-breaking the city council are yet to decide on.
If a driver gets 12 points or more within three years, they risk having their licence taken off them.
This was one of the key conditions that caused the "go-slow" protests as the union feared it would put drivers out of work.
There haven't been any cases of this happening yet.
Cosmic salad seeds which have been orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station have been brought back to Leicester, external to allow physics students to study the effects of microgravity on plant life.
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
The other six cases were because the drivers had failed to go to a compulsory six-monthly vehicle safety check.
It's put the total number of points handed out at 104 since December.
Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live
