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Long-awaited work to upgrade street lighting in Market Harborough town centre has begun today. Leicestershire County Council is replacing 50 obsolete wall-mounted lights with energy-efficient LED fittings, at a cost of up to £200,000. Several of the lights have been broken for over 18 months prompting safety concerns, as roads and pavements are dark in […]

Work is getting underway today to improve the dog walking area at Welland Park in Market Harborough. Harborough District Council is carrying out upgrades, which include resurfacing and raising the paths to help with drainage. To allow the work to take place, the eastern side of the area, near the Welland Park Road car park, […]

National Poetry Day will be celebrated in Market Harborough with a special event. The Poetry Evening at Waterstones book shop on the evening of Thursday October 2nd will feature four widely-published poets, who will be reading their work and talking about the path to publication. Tim Relf from Drayton will be one of them and […]

Teddy bears will take to skies tomorrow afternoon as a popular fundraising event returns to Market Harborough. The Teddy Zip Line we see them descending from the top of St Dionysius Church onto Church Square in a special plane. It’s the fourth year the fun event has been organised by the Market Harborough C of […]

Electricity has been restored after hundreds of homes and businesses in Market Harborough and Little Bowden were left with no electricity. The major outage just before 1pm affected over 800 properties and forced the temporary closure of Sainsbury’s in the town, as well as causing traffic lights to fail at several junctions. National Grid Electricity […]

The former manager of the Butterwick stores in Market Harborough feels ‘betrayed’ by the company after they were closed without warning. Chloe Morrison, 28, managed the Church Street and Railway Station branches, having first joined the bakery and coffee shop chain as a store assistant. She and her colleagues received an email on Monday informing […]

A power cut is affecting over 750 homes and businesses in parts of Market Harborough and Little Bowden. The electricity went off just before 1pm. The outage has forced the closure of the Sainsbury’s store and means traffic lights are not working at some road junctions. National Grid Electricity Distribution say a ‘high voltage’ fault […]

A special garden area has been created at a Market Harborough school in memory of a much-loved and highly-respected staff member.  Welland Park Academy’s Business Manager Elaine Winn was tragically killed alongside her husband Graeme in a cable car crash in Italy earlier this year. The staff social space will provide a lasting tribute to […]

Police cordoned off the Tesco Express on Rockingham Road in Market Harborough following a burglary late last night. Three men are believed to have forced their way into the store just before midnight. Leicestershire Police say a quantity of cash was stolen and an unsuccessful attempt was made to force open the cigarette kiosk. The […]

A man has been arrested after a crash involving a BMW that was being pursued by police on the M1 near Lutterworth. The driver collided with a Ford Mondeo and a Mercedes lorry yesterday afternoon, before leaving the carriageway and hitting a tree. A man was taken to hospital, but his injuries are not believed […]