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Police are appealing for witnesses after a boy was attacked by a gang of up to ten teenagers in Desborough. The 15-year-old victim suffered a broken wrist after being punched several times in a park off Ironwood Avenue. It happened between 6.30 and 7pm last Tuesday. Anyone with information should call Northamptonshire Police on 101.

East Midlands Ambulance Service has paid private ambulance firms £6.9m in the last year to respond to 999 calls on its behalf. That’s an increase of £3m on the previous 12 months. An investigation by the Press Association, which found NHS trusts across England spent more than £92m on private ambulances and taxis last year. […]

Fire crews have spent the night dealing with a large blaze at the waste transfer station in Rushton near Desborough. They were called at 6.15pm yesterday to the facility on Oakley Road, with the fire involving recyclable materials. The blaze, which saw large plumes of smoke visible from miles away, is now extinguished and an […]

Police have arrested two men in Fleckney as part of an investigation into an assault outside The Crown pub in the village. The men, aged 21 and 22, are being held on suspicion of causing Actual Bodily Harm, following an incident in June when a man was left with cuts and bruises.

Three men who escaped with nearly £100,000 after stealing the ATM from the Spar Shop in Market Harborough have been jailed for a total of almost 30 years. They used a stolen telehandler to rip the machine out of the wall at the side of the Coventry Road shop in the early hours of October […]

A teenager has been issued with a Community Resolution Order by Police after damage was caused to fencing outside a house. The boy, aged 16, was arrested in the town centre on Friday morning after the damage was committed in The Broadway. Police had initially thought vehicles had also been damaged, although that was not […]

Police responded to concerns about a teenage boy in Market Harborough last night. They were called to a field off Farndale View just after 11pm and then requested support from the ambulance and fire services to help treat and move the boy, aged 16. Officers say he was suffering from a case of Acute Behavioural […]

It wasn’t just students who picked up their GCSE results yesterday – a member of staff at Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough did so too and passed! Lucy Aspell, 28, who is a cleaner, left school with no qualifications, and despite getting a degree since , needed a GCSE in Science to get on […]

There are fears Great Bowden will lose its Post Office if parking restrictions are introduced in the centre of the village. Double yellow lines would go down around the junction of The Green, Main Street and Dingley Road and directly outside the Weltons shop – that houses the Post Office – if the move goes […]

Firefighters came to the rescue after a dog got trapped behind metal grates in Desborough last night. They were called to land off Pipewell Road at 7.45pm and used cutting equipment to release the Jack Russell, named Bert, who had been stuck for over an hour. Despite the ordeal, he wasn’t injured.