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The streets of Leicester filled with colour, texture and joy during city`s first ever textiles festival which took place between 16th - 24th September across various locations. Highlighting Leicester's rich and varied textiles past, present and future the festival takes in many public places across the city center. There`s the Big Wrap by festival Co-Founders Rebecca Harvey-Hobbs and Ali Carpenter-Hughes in Orton Square celebrating all things Leicester. Yarnbombs in Jubilee Square and The Circle created by community groups, schools and more across the city and county. The town hall fountain and square has been decorated (even the pigeons seemed impressed by this !). Leicester Look Up !, features hanging baskets made by individuals and groups and with various pop up exhibits in the Highcross and Haymarket Shopping centers this is a city wide festival of creativity and people coming together to promote positive wellbeing and sustainability. 

The Victory Show returns to Cosby in Leicestershire, recreating the 1940`s experience the show aims to commemorate the courage, hardships and endurance of our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and even great great grandparents during WWII. The show features living history displays aircraft, vehicles, and more including a battlefield scenario re-enacted and a parachute drop. featuring a look at a number of displays my film begins in the forest looking at the stealthy combat seen in these types of location. We move then to the encampment where a scottish solider entertains the troops with a bagpipe solo. the acton moves onto the flightline walk where we get up close to the beautiful spitfire planes and then onto the battlefield with the German and Allied troops advance on each other !, after a moving tribute to the fallen with the last post accompanied by the sounds of aircraft overhead the tanks and troops leave the battlefield and a parachute drop is preformed from a Dakot...