Leicester Cathedral broke. The cathedral also offers scholarships worth around £1000 a year to gap year and university students at Leicester University and De Montfort University. Whilst the choir occasionally produces CDs and other recordings, it is also one of the few cathedral choirs never to have appeared on BBC Radio 3's "Choral Evensong". As part of the preparations for the reburial of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral, British furniture designers Luke Hughes designed new choir and clergy furniture from solid oak for a new choral layout within the nave. The choir participates in regular festivals, with the annual RSCM Leicestershire festival
Speedway in Leicester indoor track at Granby Halls. The first event was the Midland Individual Championship in January 1972, which was won by James Bond. Wilf Plant set up a training track near Melton Mowbray in 1936. Speedway was also staged at the greyhound stadium on Saxby Road in Melton Mowbray in 1949. The Melton Mowbray Motorcycle Club, chaired by Plant, staged several meetings on a cinder track there. Paddy Mills set up a training track in a field in Syston in 1952, running training sessions attended by several riders who went on to represent Leicester Hunters, including Ivor Brown and Bryan Elliott.