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The Coronavirus vaccine will start to given to people in Leicestershire tomorrow. A vaccine hub is being set-up at Leicester General Hospital, as part of a further ten sites across the country to administer the Pfizer BioNTech jab. It follows controversy earlier this week when the county was not included in the initial roll-out at […]
A water leak means a road in Market Harborough will be closed to traffic for up to five days. Severn Trent Water say no supplies are being affecting by the problem on Logan Street, with a team on-site to start fixing it. A spokesperson told Hfm: “Our teams have been made aware of a leak on […]
A lock-down sort out at a pub in Welford has unearthed a document dating back 129 years. It details a valuation that took place at The George Hotel – the former name for The Wharf Inn – on October 12th 1891. Landlady Anna Raven found the handwritten inventory, which is in near pristine condition, behind […]
A man has been jailed after being caught twice behind the wheel when he was disqualified from driving. Daniel Bates, 22, was stopped by Police in Husbands Bosworth in April and then in Desborough last month. He failed a road-side test for drugs on the first occasion and was found in possession of cannabis on […]
Over £20,000 has been handed to community groups across Harborough, including to help some continue to meet during the pandemic. Youth organisations in Market Harborough and Kibworth are among those to benefit from Harborough District Council’s Community Grant Fund, for projects which help provide or improve outdoor facilities, sports or art equipment for young people, […]
Shops in Market Harborough are staying open late tonight, as part of the ‘shop local’ campaign in the run-up to Christmas. A mix of 18 independent and national retailers will be trading until 8pm today and next Thursday. The Harbs Collective, which champions the town’s independent businesses, has organised it. For a list of shop […]
A man accused of a stabbing in Desborough has pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent. Matthew Lee, 27, of Nunnery Avenue in Rothwell, has appeared at Northampton Crown Court this afternoon, via videolink from HMP Lincoln. He was charged after a man, aged 40, was stabbed in the arm in the area of Harrington […]
Harborough’s weekly coronavirus infection rate has dropped to the lowest level in Leicestershire. Latest data from Public Health England show the district’s rate in the seven days to December 3rd was 113 per 100,000 people, with 106 new cases. That is down from 151 for the previous seven days, when 142 people tested positive for […]
Police have secured an extension to a Closure Order on a flat in Market Harborough, linked to a spate of anti-social behaviour. It means no-one can enter the property in Edwin Court on Kettering Road for a further three months, after officers were granted the extension by Leicester Magistrates Court. The action was first taken […]
32 drivers have been arrested in the first week of Leicestershire Police’s Christmas drink and drug drive campaign. Officers say the figures, nearly three times the number during the first seven days of the campaign last December, are ‘concerning and very disappointing.’ 22 people failed a roadside breath test for being over the drink drive […]
