About 10,000 Sikhs are expected to join an annual procession across the city this weekend. Every spring, people from across the region flock to Leicester to join the Nagar Kirtan parade.

The huge event has been taking place in Leicester for the past two decades and this year's procession will begin on Sunday morning at the temple in Holy Bones, near St Nicolas Circle, on the west side of the city centre. The route will pass over St Nicolas Circle, through the city centre and across to the Spinney Hills area, ending at the back of the Guru Tegh Bahadur Gurdwara in East Park Road.

The procession will be starting at about 11.30am and ending at about 3pm, so there will be traffic disruption for several hours on Sunday. The roads where traffic will be halted while the parade goes past include St Nicolas Circle, St Georges Way and St Peters Road.

Nagar Kirtan has been celebrated in Leicester since 1986 and involves people in the procession walking from temple to temple, singing hymns and filling up on food at langars, or community kitchens, where it is freely given to those taking part and anyone who wants any.

There will be rolling road closures during the parade and some buses will be re-directed for a short time on Sunday. The roads affected by the Nagar Kirtan parade on Sunday will be:

Holy Bones
Great Central Street
Vaughan Way
St Nicholas Circle, St Nicholas Place
High Street
East Gates
Gallowtree Gate
Granby Street
Northampton Street
Charles Street
St Georges Way
Swain Street
Sparkenhoe Street
St Peters Road
East Park Road
Leicester Street
Rosebery Street