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An additional family from Afghanistan fleeing persecution from the Taliban will be housed in the Harborough District. The Council will now support three families of people who worked with British forces before their withdrawal, through a government funded relocation scheme, after initially pledging to help two. The families, who were evacuated last month and are […]
A driver who rammed a Police car during a high-speed pursuit across North Northamptonshire has been jailed for seven months. Lee Roy Holland failed to stop for officers in Braybrooke and then travelled along the A6, A427 and back roads, before crashing his Audi A3 at the entrance to a field in Brampton Ash. Officers […]
Police are appealing for information after a robbery at a shop in Lutterworth in the early hours of yesterday. A male member of staff suffered a hand injury after they were forced into a back room, when three masked men targeted the Spar, at the Texaco Service Station on Leicester Road. They then stole cash […]
Crime has fallen by 14% across Harborough in the past year with 691 less crimes reported to Police. The biggest drops were in burglary, vehicle crime and shoplifting – all down by around 50% on the previous year, with periods of lock-down likely to have contributed to the falls. Violence with injury increased by 26% […]
The work of community and voluntary groups in Market Harborough has been praised at first meeting of a new partnership to bring them together. Around 15 organisations have joined The Market Harborough Partnership, which is aimed at building on the great community spirit seen during the pandemic and to help them work more closely together. […]
A man has been charged with burgling a Market Harborough shop and stealing boxes of perfume worth over £760. Thomas Gaffney is accused of breaking into Savers on the High Street in the early hours of September 17th. Police were alerted at 1.30am. Gaffney, 47, of Landseer Court, Corby, was remanded into custody following his […]
A 16-year-old boy who stabbed another teenager in the arm during an attempted robbery in Kibworth has been handed a Youth Rehabilitation Order. He attacked the 18-year-old on the bridge known as ‘Tin Bridge,’ off Warwick Park, on the afternoon of February 6th, when the victim refused his demands to handover money. The boy, who […]
Opposition is mounting against plans for a massive new prison near Market Harborough. Concerns include the impact on traffic and the development being an eye-sore in the open countryside. The Ministry of Justice submitted a planning application last month to build the new 1700 inmate jail on land adjacent to HMP Gartree, which would create around […]
Firefighters from Kibworth are preparing to climb Mount Snowdon is their full fire kit, to raise money for two charities close to their hearts. The on-call crew based at the village fire station set a sponsorship target of £1,085 – £1 for each metre climbed to the summit of the mountain in North Wales – […]
Improvements are set to be carried out in two parks across Harborough in a bid to make women and girls feel safer. New CCTV and improved lighting are among measures to be considered for Welland Park in Market Harborough and Warwick Park in Kibworth. It is after Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews secured […]
