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Controversial plans to build 230 new homes in the north of the Harborough District have been refused. Councillors went against the advice of planning officers in rejecting the proposal for 47 acres of land either side of the A47, to the east of Houghton on the Hill. They ruled the development, which would also have […]

A Market Harborough youngster has raised over £1,000 for the Children’s Air Ambulance through a big skipping rope challenge. Eight-year-old Phoebe Scallan completed at least 200 skips every day during May, clocking up more than 6,000 in total. It was the second year the Meadowdale Primary School pupil supported the charity through fundraising, which also […]

A plan to turn the sports hall at Harborough Leisure Centre into a soft play facility is set to be rejected. Centre operator Everyone Active put forward the idea, saying there is strong demand for such a facility aimed at children under-12 and had earmarked £350,000 to set it up. However, sports clubs who use […]

Police have charged a man who was wanted in connection with burglaries across Harborough and elsewhere. Daniel Casey was arrested in Lincolnshire on Saturday after an appeal was launched for information about his whereabouts in April. The 33-year-old, of Golf Course Lane, Leicester, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to burgle between 3 […]

A Market Harborough entrepreneur’s new ‘sustainable’ sparkling soda drink is proving to be a real hit. ‘Kaoba’ is produced using a waste product from chocolate – cacaofruit  – and is the first drink of its kind to be made on a large scale in the UK. While most people associate the cacao pod with chocolate, […]

Thousands turned out to enjoy a special canal festival at Foxton Locks over the weekend. The event marked the 75th anniversary of a campaign to save the nation’s inland waterways. The festival included a flotilla of 30 boats which made its way to Union Wharf, which hosted the 1950 festival, before making its way back […]

Major work costing over £1m has started today to renovate and restore parts of Market Harborough’s historic Symington Building. The nine-month project will see repairs to external masonry, the roof and bell tower of the Victorian building on Adam and Eve Street and windows will also be replaced. Scaffolding is being erected on the front […]

Drivers have been left frustrated that no work has been taking place on the A6 in Kibworth despite a lane being closed causing lengthy delays. Temporary traffic lights have been in place near the entrance to the tip on Harborough Road since late last week, but there was no sign of any workers from Severn […]

Senior councillors say a new prison near Market Harborough should be called ‘The Gove’. Council leader Phil Knowles and his Liberal Democrat colleague Cllr Jo Asher have put forward the tongue-in-cheek suggestion, after HFM revealed the Ministry of Justice is to ask members of the community to suggest names for the jail. It was former […]

Youngsters from Market Harborough joined serving soldiers and veterans on a parade through Kettering yesterday. More than a thousand cadets from Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland were part of the big event, organised so members of the Royal Anglian Regiment could exercise their Freedom of the town. Members of Market Harborough Sea Cadets were among those […]