International Police Association (IPA) visit to Leicester by Krefeld IPA

International Police Association (IPA) – Visit to Leicester by Krefeld IPA Presidents Blog July 2019 Clive Wood Clive Wood is the Section UK President of the IPA.  Especially pleasing is that Clive is also a member of CLETA. …

Leicester Fire Fighters visit Krefeld. May 2019

Leicestershire Fire Fighters visit to Krefeld May 10th to 13th In this 46th year of our twinning connection with the Krefeld Feuerwehr, a party of twenty three serving and retired members of Leicestershire Fire Service set off from Birmingham…

VISIT OF KREFELD OBERBÜRGERMEISTER To LEICESTER 3rd to 5th May

German and English flags In the middle of Europe-wide discussions about Brexit, Oberbürgermeister, Frank Meyer, visited Krefeld's partner city Leicester on the weekend. For three days he was a guest in a delegation hosted by our twinned…

Krefeld Mayor visits Fire Station

Krefeld Mayor visits Leicester Central Fire station On the final day of his visit, Krefeld Oberbergmeister Frank Meyer and his party were invited to visit Central Fire Station, Lancaster Road, Leicester. On approaching the Station…

Haskovo VIP visit

Haskovo VIPs visit Leicester (15th to 18th April 2019)  Having been preparing for a third Chamber of Commerce business delegation to visit Leicester for over 12 months, John Townsend finally welcomed the VIPs to Leicester in April…

Haskovo agreement renewal

Leicester  -  Haskovo  Partnership  Continues The cities of Leicester and Haskovo have renewed their agreement to work in co-operation in the fields of education, culture, sport and commerce. Early in September 2018…

Visit to Haskovo – February 2019

Visit  to  Haskovo  -  February 2019  -    John Townsend Following and invitation from the Haskovo Chamber of Commerce, I travelled to Bulgaria on the 14th February by the early morning flight from…

Cleta visit Krefeld Mayor

Mayor of Krefeld welcomed a visit from their twin city of Leicester (05.02.2019) The new leadership of the twin City of Leicester European Twinning Association (CLETA) has featured on a three-day visit to Krefeld. Chairman Fred Rankin…

Bulgaria’s National Day

Bulgaria Celebrates on the 1st March    -    John Townsend The 1st March is Bulgaria’s National Day and a public holiday. On this date each year, the Bulgarian Embassy, in Queen’s Gate, London (just round…

2018 – Krefeld Fire service visit Leicester

This year’s visit should have started on the Friday but due to Leicester City's match against Southampton being moved to the Thursday, and our visitors wish to attend that match, everything was brought forward by one day. The Krefeld fire…