[ noun ] a largely agricultural county in central England <noun.location>
Mr Sean Henry, administrative director of Lastolite, a photographic equipment company based in Coalville, Leicestershire, said: 'In Germany it's quite common for a bank manager to be on the board.
In October 1992, more than 40,000 miners worked for British Coal at 50 pits. In addition to the 17 pits in operation, British Coal is planning to open the Asfordby pit in Leicestershire next year.
Power supplies to homes in Leicestershire and Oxfordshire were also hit, said local officials.
Separately, the Department of the Environment said the Rural Development Commission would pay Pounds 1m over three years to help reclamation of a former colliery at Moira, near Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, in the National Forest area.
A review of Leicestershire is under way and one of Nottinghamshire is due to start on June 21.
Only 10 per cent of Rutlanders work in Leicestershire.
After nearly eight hours of rescue efforts at the edge of England's busiest north-south highway, one of the people aboard was still trapped alive in the wreckage and two bodies awaited recovery, the Leicestershire Ambulance Service said.
But the suspicion is harboured in some quarters that certain schools have worked out how to doctor the results. After the FT's school survey was published last month, a humorous missive arrived from Uppingham, a Leicestershire boarding school.