Single parents in Leicestershire

Leicester is the centre of gravity, with Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough ringing it at a comfortable half-hour. It's a county where the ring road genuinely helps, and where meeting in the city is the default even for people who don't live in it.

Everyone here is a parent, so the practical stuff — custody weeks, childcare, a reply that comes two days later because it was that kind of week — never needs explaining.