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A man is due in Court accused of stealing a woman’s handbag in Market Harborough. The 33-year-old from Nottingham was charged with theft over the weekend, after being arrested on Friday. He is accused of taking the bag in the Sainsbury’s car park,  off Springfield Street, on November 19th last year.

A clampdown on illegal parking outside Harborough schools in being stepped up. Leicestershire County Council is introducing a second camera enforcement car to patrol at the start and end of the school day. 24 £70 fines have been issued across the District in the past six months. Several schools in Market Harborough and surrounding villages […]

Villagers in Great Glen have voted to adopt their updated Neighbourhood Plan. It follows a referendum held yesterday, which saw 738 residents voting ‘yes’ and 69 ‘no’. The turnout was 23%. The plan details things like where new housing developments can go. The referendum was required following a review of the village’s previously adopted plan.

The idea for the community to buy and run Market Harborough’s Red Cow pub is on hold. It’s after it was revealed the High Street venue is on the verge of being sold, after being put up for sale for £350,000. Pete Urmston from Little Bowden was gauging interest in running it as a co-operative. […]

A man’s been banned from entering the majority of Market Harborough, after assaulting Police officers and being a public nuisance. Leigh Marlow has been made the subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order for five years. The 35-year-old, who caused widespread anger last year when he damaged the iconic ‘Tommy’ silhouette soldier by the War Memorial […]

An arsonist who endangered dozens of lives in Husbands Bosworth has gone on the run from prison. Daniel Milburn – who was jailed for five and a half years in 2018 – went missing from HMP Kirkham – an open prison near Preston in Lancashire on Wednesday. He set fire to bins at the Brooke […]

More pensioners locally have been targeted by fraudsters posing as Police officers. It has led to a new warning for people to be on-guard, after the tricksters phoned them saying they needed to withdraw cash from their bank accounts, claiming it could be made-up of counterfeit notes, which needed checking. They were told the money […]

Police are appealing for information after burglars stole cash, watches and two laptops from a house in Dingley. They smashed glass in a patio door to get into the property on Harborough Road between 3.20pm and 6.30pm on Monday. Officers are keen to hear from anyone who saw suspicious people or vehicles in the area […]

A roundabout is to be built at an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Market Harborough. It will go up on the A6 Harborough Road at the Kettering Road junction at Clack Hill. There are regular crashes at the location, with drivers turning right out of Kettering Road having to cross the carriageway. Traffic was […]

A man arrested following the death of a man in Kibworth Harcourt has been eliminated from the Police investigation. The 33-year-old from Market Harborough was questioned and bailed pending further enquiries, but has now been released with no further action. Detectives continue to treat the death of the man in his 30s as ‘unexplained’ after […]