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Eight young talented athletes from across the Harborough District have been handed funding to help them. Grants ranging from £250 to £1,000 have been awarded as part of Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport’s GO GOLD Funding Programme. The cash aims to provide valuable financial support towards kit, equipment, travel and accommodation for competitions and tournaments.
A Market Harborough butchers has been fined £4,000 for failing to meet food hygiene standards at its food and processing site. It followed an inspection by Harborough Council at the Bates Butchers and Delicatessen base at the Langton Garden Centre in 2016, which uncovered dirty preparation and storage areas and equipment. Major improvements have since […]
Ambulance crews based in Market Harborough are set to re-locate to the town’s Police Station this autumn. The Ambulance Station on Leicester Road was put up for sale last month. East Midlands Ambulance Service have revealed more details of the co-location plan, which it says will provide better facilities for staff and save cash, following […]
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester has visited Kibworth Medical Centre and unveiled a commemorative plaque. He’s met doctors, nurses, staff and patients at the £3m facility, which opened to 9,500 patients last summer. It boasts 11 multi-purpose consulting and treatment rooms, a minor operations suite and a dedicated counselling room.
People in Desborough are going to the polls today to elect a new Town Council. It follows the mass resignation of all the Conservative councillors earlier this year – 10 seats are up for grabs. Meanwhile, villagers in places including East Farndon, Welford and Clipston are also at the polls, to elect Councillors to represent them […]
School children have been put on alert after two girls were followed by a man in a van in Market Harborough on Monday afternoon. The Year 8 pupils from Welland Park Academy were followed through town to the Victoria Avenue area off Leicester Road as they were walking home. Police say he made no attempt […]
Members of the Norton and Gaulby Young Farmers have set-off on a 162 mile cycling challenge to raise money for the Air Ambulance, in memory of a youngster who died in a tragic accident. They’re cycling to Blackpool in time for the national Young Farmers Clubs’ AGM on Friday. It’s in memory of Sam Stanbridge, […]
Plans for 350 new homes in Kibworth & Fleckney were given the final go-ahead last night – permission was also granted by Harborough Council for a new ExtraCare facility, with 58 apartments, off Rockingham Road in Market Harborough.
A bogus workman has stolen cash and sentimental jewellery from the home of an elderly woman in Market Harborough. It happened at about 5pm on Monday when he called at her house in Oak Close off Douglas Drive, saying he was due to carry out work on her roof. He was let in and stole […]
Plans for 600 new homes on the edge of Market Harborough were given the go-ahead last night. The development, including a primary school, doctors surgery and community centre, will go up on 88 acres of fields off Kettering Road at Clack Hill, stretching towards Braybrooke. A new roundabout will be built at the A6/Kettering Road junction […]
