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A rapid community Covid-19 test centre has opened in Market Harborough today. Based at Harborough Leisure Centre, it is available to keyworkers and those unable to work from home, who don’t have any Coronavirus symptoms and are not self-isolating. Leicestershire County Council is operating the facility using self-administered lateral flow tests, which provide results within […]
An appeal for laptops to help schoolchildren in and around Market Harborough has been given a big boost thanks to a donation of nearly £30,000 It has enabled the Learn Academies Trust, responsible for 11 primary schools, to buy 158 brand new devices for youngsters who didn’t have access to a computer for home learning. […]
Active Together is here to support you to get active, in your own way. Getting out in the fresh air for a walk, run, or cycle is a fantastic way to not only improve our physical health but our mental wellbeing. From miles of footpaths and cycle tracks, to local parks and woodlands right here […]
Thieves are stealing bottles of milk from doorsteps in Desborough in the middle of the night. They have been targeting homes on the Grange Estate, just after the milkman has made deliveries. The latest thefts happened during snowfall in the early hours of Monday, when bottles were taken from outside several homes. CCTV footage from […]
Four teenage boys were arrested after a house in Desborough was broken into yesterday afternoon. Police were called to Harrington Road at 2pm, when a member of the public saw people breaking into the unoccupied property through a window. The boys, three aged 13 and one aged 14, were arrested after officers surrounded the property, with […]
Nine new apartments are set to be built in Market Harborough town centre, after a plan to bulldoze a former vehicle repair centre was approved. Harborough District Council’s Planning Committee granted planning permission last night, despite over 30 objections from members of the public, mainly around the fact no off-street parking is included in the […]
The plan for 2,750 new homes near Lutterworth will not be reviewed by the government. South Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa and Lutterworth Town Council requested the planning application, approved in July last year, be reviewed by the Secretary of State for for Housing, Communities and Local Government, over concerns they had with parts of it. […]
A computer problem prevented councillors making a decision on the controversial redevelopment of an elderly people’s housing scheme in Market Harborough. Planning officers were unable to show slides, detailing the proposal for Naseby Square, at the District Council’s virtual planning committee, held on-line last night. IT staff spend 25 minutes trying to resolve the issue […]
A paratrooper from Great Glen who was forced to quit the army for health reasons says becoming an apprentice electrician has turned his life around. Michael Parr, 28, was discharged from the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment after suffering hearing loss in one ear as a result of firing heavy weapons. He became an apprentice at […]
A man has been jailed for five and half years for stabbing another man in Desborough. Matthew Lee attacked him on Harrington Road on November 6th last year. The victim, aged in his 40s, used his arm to block an attempt to stab him in the stomach and needed hospital treatment for the injuries he […]
