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Your Guide to Leicester
The City
"Leicester is quality. Not the cheap as chips sort of 'throw away crap Christmas present' sort of quality, but the 'I'd never have expected that' variety of quality..."
10 facts about Leicester - that you may or may not know!
It's the home of Everards and Ansell Beer - you knew there was a good reason to come here.
Mr Mark Morrison (Return of the Mack!) lives there.
It's the home of Walkers Crisps and Gary Lineker.
Cornershop (remember them?) are from Leicester.
Thomas Cook (the holiday man) was born and lived here.
Sue Townsend (author of Adrian Mole) is from Leicester.
DNA fingerprinting was discovered there.
It's home of two former Big Brother contestants (getting thin on the ground now).
It's the home town of the Attenborough brothers.
And finally.......One Big Sunday is here!
And you almost certainly wouldn't have known that...
'theres' an old statue near the market that sometimes appears with a fag or cup of tea in its hand - quite funny when you're drunk.'
"If someone says 'Alright me duck', Just politely smile and nod, It's just our way of saying 'hi mate', We're not really all that odd."
The City
