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Located on the river Soar and at the edge of the English National Forest, Leicester is the second largest conurbation in the East Midlands after Nottingham, though a third of the urban area consists of suburbs outside Leicester City Unitary Authority and in the surrounding Leicestershire County. It has direct links to the M1, M69 to Coventry and Midland Mainline to London St Pancras.

The local economy is still adapting from a former dependence on textiles manufacture towards a mixed post-industrial economy. A thriving ethnic community accounts for more than a third of the population and continues to enrich city life.

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