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
Sheb Wooley 1963, his single "Hootenanny Hoot" became a top-10 hit in Australia; and in 1967 his song "The Love-in" (1967) was recognized as an acerbic commentary on the 1960s' counterculture. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wooley became a regular on the television series "Hee Haw" and wrote the theme song for that long-running series. On "Hee Haw" he often appeared as the character Ben Colder, playing him as a drunken country songwriter. Outside of "Hee Haw", Wooley released music and performed as Ben Colder, although he would still sing under his own name as well. Sheb would continue to