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Volunteers helped plant thousands of bulbs as work to create a new Friendship Park in Market Harborough town centre continues. Over 30 green-fingered volunteers worked with Harborough District Council staff at the site on Northampton Road yesterday. Bruce Durham was one of them and can’t wait for the project to be finished:

Rail users are being warned there will be no train services from Market Harborough tomorrow. Engineering work means the tracks between Leicester and Kettering will be closed. East Midlands Railway will be running a replacement bus service from outside the railway station, to take passengers north to Leicester and south to Kettering, where they can […]

The Poppy Appeal for 2024 has launched in Market Harborough today. The Royal British Legion is running the appeal and has stall in the Market Hall for the next fortnight, where you can buy poppies and other items to support it. There will also be street collections and poppies are on sale in shops and […]

Over 100 Sea Cadets and volunteers will parade in Market Harborough tomorrow. The town is hosting the annual Trafalgar Day parade for the first in around ten years and cadets from across the region will be attending. The event commemorates the Royal Navy’s victory in the historic Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The cadets, led […]

Police say and on-the-run prisoner could be in Leicestershire or Northamptonshire. Rhys Allen absconded from HMP Sudbury – an open prison in Derbyshire – in the early hours of Sunday. Officers have released a picture of the 30-year-old, who they say has links to both counties. Allen, who is around 5ft 10ins tall, of slim […]

The majority of pay and display machines in Market Harborough car parks are set to become cashless. The terminals are to be replaced with new technology enabling faster card payments and reducing costs of cash collection. Harborough District Council say allowing mostly card and pay-by-phone payments will result in lower operating costs, allow parking charges […]

A footballer from the Harborough district whose life was saved by a defibrillator has handed in a petition to Downing Street calling for the government to scrap VAT on the devices. Jack Hurley suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed while warming up for a North Kilworth FC game in Husbands Bosworth last year. Fellow players […]

Rail services from Market Harborough are being severely disrupted due to a signalling system fault. East Midlands Railway is unable to run any trains through the Loughborough area in either direction, meaning a number of services have been cancelled. Services between London St Pancras and Sheffield are running and will additionally call at Market Harborough. […]

The world famous FA Cup trophy is to visit Harborough Town ahead of the football club’s historic first round match in the competition. The silverware will be at the Community Football Ground next Thursday  – two days before the Bees travel to Kent to take-on Tonbridge Angels. The club will be opening its doors between […]

You will be able to park for free in Market Harborough and Lutterworth on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas. Harborough District Council is to waive charges in its car parks on the 7th, 14th and 21st December to encourage people to ‘shop local’ and support town centre traders. It follows positive feedback from shoppers […]