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Market Harborough’s Royal British Legion leaders will lay a wreath in the town centre tomorrow, to mark the 100th anniversary of the veterans’ organisation. It will be placed on the War Memorial on The Square by Stewart Harrison, the chairman of the RBL’s Market Harborough branch and new branch president Barbara Johnson. The Legion was […]
A 20mph speed limit on over 25 residential streets in Market Harborough is to be made official – nearly 30 years after signs went up. The safety measure in streets off Coventry Road has been in place since 1994, but only on an informal basis. Leicestershire County Council now wants to impose an official order, […]
Firefighters were called after smoke was seen billowing out of a manhole cover at a busy Market Harborough road junction last night. They found water was entering an underground electrical box at the junction of St Mary’s Road/Kettering Road and Clarence Street. Part of the area was cordoned off until engineers from Western Power arrived […]
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats at Leicestershire County Council is standing down. Councillor Simon Galton, who represents the north of the Harborough District, has led the opposition group for 20 years. He now wants to concentrate on the area he represents. Michael Mullaney, councillor for Hinckley De Montfort, has been elected as the new […]
Plans for a new business park on the outskirts of Market Harborough have been withdrawn. They were lodged with Harborough District Council last month, with a mix of six office, business and warehouse units included in the scheme for land off Leicester Road, stretching towards the canal, plus space for the relocation of a town-based […]
People in Market Harborough are being invited to take part in a socially-distanced Big Brekkie event, to mark Christian Aid week. Because of Covid restrictions, no door-to-door street collections could place this year. Instead, for a minimum donation of £5, you’ll get a bag of breakfast goodies delivered to your door tomorrow, and then tuck […]
A mechanical fault caused a fire which severely damaged a tractor in Tugby last night. Fire crews from Billesdon and Uppingham were called to a field off Hallaton Road at 6.45pm. The tractor was being used to plough a field at the time. No-body was injured and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service say a fault […]
Police have charged two 15-year-old boys after a man was stabbed in Fleckney last summer. The victim was airlifted to hospital following the attack in the Edward Road play park on August 20th. Both boys, who can’t be named for legal reasons, are charged with wounding with intent to cause actual bodily harm. One is […]
A cabinet minister says the government “can’t rule anything out” when it comes to the possibility of local coronavirus restrictions in areas that have seen cases rise sharply. The Harborough District is one of over 20 local authority areas in England that have Covid-19 case rates twice the national average. Public Health bosses say the […]
A Market Harborough man has been jailed for five-and-a-half-years for stabbing another man in the knee and threatening him with an imitation gun. Jonathan Hickingbottom, 27, burst into the victim’s flat at Riverside Court on Farndon Road, armed with a large knife, after believing he had sent a text message to his partner. When inside, […]
