The Leicester Mercury is asking its readers to decide how to spend £1bn of regeneration money.

Some of the county’s finest historical treasures and former workplaces are empty and vandalised.

But the Mercury is calling on residents, conservation groups and regeneration experts to put forward further targets for restoration and renovation.

John Nicholls, chief executive of the Leicester Regeneration Company has made a dilapidated cinema in Belgrave Gate the first target for their ambitious plans.

The decaying hulk is a favourite for vandals and there are birds nesting in the brickwork.

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