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The organiser of Charity Truck Pull fundraising events held in Market Harborough and Medbourne has been jailed for two and a half years for pocketing most of the money raised. A judge said although Gary Gardner didn’t set out to defraud, not a single penny of the £26,000 collected went to the young son of […]

The organiser of Charity Truck Pull Events held in Market Harborough and Medbourne will be sentenced tomorrow, after pocketing most of the money raised. Gary Gardner put them on between 2013 and 2015, with the main benefactor supposedly the Trust Fund set-up for the young son of murder soldier Lee Rigby. Not a penny of […]

Members of the public have disarmed a man with a knife near the Primary School in South Kilworth. A number of Police officers – some armed – were called to Walcote Road at around 9am, after receiving reports villagers had challenged and taken the weapon off him. A 20-year-old man was arrested near-by on suspicion […]

Armed Police were called out this morning after members of the public reported seeing a man carrying a knife in the street in Lutterworth. A number of officers were called to the Linden Drive area just after 7am and stopped a man near-by, although no knife was found. A search of the near-by area also […]

More new houses could go up in Great Bowden – on fields off Leicester Lane. Developers want to build up to 46 homes on land adjacent to where permission was granted for 50 houses earlier this year. A planning application by Gladman Developments has been handed to Harborough Council, who will consider it in due […]

The plan to cut Opening hours over the weekend at the Urgent Care Centre in Market Harborough has been scrapped – although they will be reduced during the week. NHS bosses had proposed shutting the facility at the St Luke’s Treatment Centre two hours earlier on Saturdays and Sunday at 5pm, but after concerns about […]

An inquest has heard three friends who died in a crash on the A427 were not wearing seatbelts. Ciprian Merla and Gheorghe Sofitchi who were both aged 22, and  Tatiana Chios, who was 40, were killed when the Peugeot 407 they were in was involved in a head-on collision with a Ford Focus, between Dingley […]

A gang of youths have throwing corn the cob at passing cars and pedestrians in Kibworth. They’ve been ripping them out of the ground from a field on Smeeton Road. Farmer James Stanbridge says there are limited supplies of the crop this year:  “Those responsible have no respect for the world around them.” “It may sound […]

Harborough Council has reached a major milestone so it can have more control over development locally. New figures show the authority has achieved what’s known as a ‘five year housing supply.’ For the past few years some developers refused permission to build locally by the Council have then been granted the permission by the Government […]

A thankyou letter written by Princess Diana a month before she died will be auctioned in Market Harborough next week. It was sent to a personal protection officer, following a holiday with Princes William and Harry to St Tropez in Southern France in July 1997, where they stayed with Dodi Fayed. The Princess was attracting […]