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The Red Arrows are due to fly over the Market Harborough area again this weekend. The iconic RAF display team are due overheard tomorrow (Saturday) between 11am and 11.15am, while en-route to a display above Windsor Castle, as part of commemorations for The Queen’s Birthday. There will be another chance to catch a glimpse of […]
A Harborough councillor has accused the government of ‘betraying’ elected members, by making them meet in-person again during the pandemic. Councils nationwide were told to re-start normal meetings last month, after being allowed to hold them ‘virtually’ on-line since last year. Temporary coronavirus legislation, allowing remote meetings, lapsed on May 6th and the government has […]
Police have carried out a drugs raid at a flat in Market Harborough. Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Shrubbery Court, off Northampton Road at 8am today. A small quantity of suspected Class A drugs were recovered and two people who were in the property were issued a Community Resolution […]
Young people across Harborough make-up most of the District’s new Coronavirus cases. Public Health bosses also say around 80% of infections are the faster-spreading Delta Variant. They are urging caution as rates continue to rise in the District, although remain below the national average. There have been 35 new cases in the past week, the […]
Arsonists set fire to a large amount of rubbish twice in three hours in Desborough last night. Firefighters were first called to deal with the blaze at the side of Back Lane at 6.10pm and were called back just after 9pm. Items which had been dumped at the side of the road, including Plasterboard, guttering […]
Harborough District Council has become the first ‘compassionate workplace’ in the East Midlands. The authority has agreed to support the scheme launched by the Loros Hospice, which aims to develop a network of compassionate friends, neighbours and workplaces across the area. Cllr Simon Whelband, Cabinet Lead for Communities and Wellbeing, is pleased they have made […]
A woman has been fined £400 after hiring ‘a man with a van’ to clear rubbish out of her house – which was then dumped on a country road near Gartree Prison. The Enviro-Crime team at Harborough District Council found evidence among the heap of mess on Gallow Field Road, which traced it back to […]
Amazing photographs of a partial eclipse have been captured in the skies above Market Harborough today. David Letts snapped the moment the moon passed between the earth and the sun, from the back of his shop, Harborough Lights on Manor Walk. Despite cloud cover making seeing the phenomenon difficult, his pictures clearly show a third […]
Market Harborough Rugby Club is launching a new women’s squad – over 25 years since it last had one. Training starts next Tuesday, with touch rugby leading up to the start of the new season in September. Friendly touch rugby fixtures and a couple of fun training events will also be held over the summer. […]
Grants totalling over £925,000 have been given to community projects across Harborough. The District Council has handed out the cash, provided by developers to boost community facilities, in locations where they have built, through the Section 106 scheme. Great Glen Parish Council has benefited from the largest grant – awarded £892.938 towards the cost of […]
