new supermarket in October 2005 along with a 24-hour petrol station. Soon after the Kwik Save supermarket on Blaby Road closed down. Station Street is currently witnessing redevelopment of formerly industrial buildings, now being converted into homes. South Leicestershire College (formally known as Wigston College of Further Education) relocated from its original location on Station Road, Wigston to Blaby Road, South Wigston in 2010. South Leicestershire College then merged with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College in 2017 to be known today as North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College. In the late 1950s, Norbert Elias—then lecturer or reader in sociology at the University of Leicester and his student John Scotson conducted research on the tensions between two working-class neighbourhoods in South Wigston, which they dubbed "Winston Parva." Their report, The Established and the Outsiders: A Sociological Enquiry into Community Problems first published in 1965 is now regarded a classic sociological text. Transport British Railways closed all three railway stations in the 1960s, A new South Wigston railway station was opened along the Nuneaton line in 1986 and is served by CrossCountry trains between and . Arriva Midlands provide the local bus services around the South Wigston area. Arriva and their predecessors Midland Red were based at a depot on Station Street but Arriva announced during August 2021, they would be vacating the site with operations moving to Thurmaston depot. All operations were transferred to Thurmaston depot in October 2021. References External links Towns in Leicestershire Unparished areas in Leicestershire Oadby and Wigston