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Audio slideshow: Guinea Pig Club
Patients at East Grinstead(Photo: Guinea Pig Club and Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)
A plane crash in the Second World War led to pioneering surgery and membership to an exclusive drinking club for one Leicestershire man.

Martin O’Neill drawing - Copyright LCFC Digital Archive In pictures: LCFC's memorabilia
Take a look at some of the items from Leicester City Football Club's collection, reflecting their 125 years of history.

Carinal Wolsey mosaic In pictures: The Wolsey building
See the final days of Leicester's historic Wolsey building, which is being demolished to make way for a new development.


MORE HISTORY
In pictures: Slums in Leicester
In pictures: Bell Foundry history
Educating for one hundred years
In pictures: Antiques business
Hallaton Treasure goes on display
Lambert: Leicester's largest son

Flying over the East Midlands' M1
New life for the Wolsey building
Born and buried on one road
Jeffreys reflects on DNA finding
In pictures: 1930s fish and chips
The father of English democracy

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