Leicester Forest East The school will eventually provide 210 places with the potential to expand as demand increases over the next few years. The Discovery Schools Academy Trust has been selected to sponsor the school. The school has extensive parking for staff, parents, visitors and local residents. Most people know Leicester Forest East for the Leicester Forest East motorway service station on the M1 motorway, which opened on 14 February 1966 just over a year after the motorway reached Markfield. It was based on an Italian design used on the "autostrade" which is very unusual in Britain. At the time of opening it
Michael-Leon Wooley Wooley auditioned 107 times before landing his first role in the national tour of "Purlie", making three-hundred dollars a week. After the national tour of "Purlie" Wooley returned to New York and supported himself by playing in piano bars and occasionally singing in subway stations as well as working as a singing waiter on the Spirit of New York, a dinner cruise ship that circles Manhattan. In 1992 Wooley made his Broadway debut as an understudy (Big Moe) in the Clarke Peters' musical, "Five Guys Named Moe". After "Five Guys Named Moe" he embarked on national tours with The Pointer