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A shake-up of Parliamentary boundaries is recommending one MP serves the entire Harborough District. Currently the area falls into three constituencies – Harborough, South Leicestershire and Rutland & Melton. The Boundary Commission is proposing the new Harborough constituency takes in everywhere served by Harborough District Council – an electorate just over 71,000. The move would […]
Police and Council officials are to hold a meeting with residents over continued concerns about antisocial behaviour at Little Bowden Recreation Ground. It will take place at the park at 6.30pm next Wednesday (June 16th) A number of incidents in recent months have prompted Police patrols to be upped and temporary CCTV coverage to be […]
New calls are being made for a derelict site in Market Harborough to finally be redeveloped. The area at the corner of St Mary’s Road and Kettering Road, was part of the former Harborough Rubber site and despite plans to build flats and houses there, no work has ever started. An historic old flour mill […]
Independent shops and businesses across Harborough are uniting to support the upcoming Fiver Fest campaign. It will run from 12th to 26thJune and see retailers showcasing £5 offers in a bid to get people to support them. Fiver Fest is a free-to-join campaign, devised and run by Totally Locally, which calls on shoppers to spend […]
Volunteers from the South Leicestershire Wombles collected over 15 bags of rubbish from Harborough parks yesterday. The big clean up at Symington’s Recreation Ground, Welland Park, and Little Bowden Recreation Ground, was part of a county-wide litter pick for the Keep Britain Tidy campaign’s Great British Spring Clean. Over the past month members of the […]
The Parole Board has ruled Leicestershire child killer Colin Pitchfork can be released from prison. He was jailed for life in 1988, for the rapes and murders of teenagers Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, after their bodies were found in Narborough. The Board says it is satisfied Pitchfork, aged 61, who was the first to […]
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Detectives investigating a major cyber-attack on a Market Harborough school’s IT systems have handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. Prosecutors will now decide if a man, arrested in connection with the major hack at Welland Park Academy in January, will be charged. The ‘sophisticated cyber-attack’ during lockdown prevented remote lessons taking place for […]
Flytipping across Harborough has fallen for a third year running. New figures show the District has bucked the national trend, by seeing a decrease in the past 12 months. The number of incidents dealt with fell from 484 to 467. Over the past three years the number has dropped by 35%. Bosses say the fall […]
The world famous Red Arrows flew over Market Harborough this afternoon. Pilots from the RAF display team were en-route from their base in Lincolnshire to RAF Fairford in Cheltenham and passed over town at around 3.20pm. The flight was in preparation for their first full display since the pandemic started, at the Midlands Air Festival […]
