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Police are investigating a spate of criminal damage in Market Harborough town centre. A bench was ripped out of the ground and thrown into the river and a Naseby Battlefield interpretation board damaged beyond repair. The bench was located on the Millennium Mile opposite the Memorial Gardens, while the board was on High Street, near […]

Three people were arrested after fleeing from a stolen car when it was abandoned in Desborough. Police descended on Harborough Road on Saturday morning after the driver of the Honda CRV pulled over near the Bear Way junction, having earlier failed to stop for officers. The vehicle had been stolen from Wellingborough earlier that morning. […]

There is going to be more disruption to train services from Market Harborough because of strike action. The drivers’ union Aslef has announced it will stage a series of walkouts and introduce a new overtime ban from the end of the month, in their long-running dispute with operating companies over pay. Union members at East […]

The opening of a new link road through a Market Harborough housing estate is set to be delayed until August. The road between the A4304 at Lubenham Hill and the B6047 Leicester Road should have been open by now, because over 450 homes are occupied on the Airfield Farm Estate – a condition of the […]

Harborough District Council could set-up a solar farm. The authority is set to allocate £40,000 towards the green energy project in its forthcoming budget. Solar Farms are usually located in the countryside with hundreds of solar panels placed in fields to generate electricity. Plans are at a very early stage, so no potential site has yet […]

A man has been injured in a crash involving a cyclist and car driver near a Harborough village. Emergency services were called to Peatling Road near Willoughby Waterleys just before 12.30pm today. Leicestershire Police say the cyclist has been taken to hospital and officers remain on the scene. The road is closed between the Mere […]

There are just two days left to comment on plans to change services provided at Feilding Palmer Hospital in Lutterworth. The NHS wants to close in-patient beds to instead offer more outpatient and diagnostic services, which it says will save patients having to travel elsewhere to access them. Bosses say it will increase the number […]

A former Harborough sub-postmaster was accused of stealing nearly £2,000 after the Horizon computer system reported a shortfall despite her Post Office being closed for a year. The small branch in North Kilworth shut at the start of the pandemic in 2020, because it could not be adapted for social distancing. Julie Beisner checked her […]

Police are investigating after members of the Northants Hunt Saboteurs group were assaulted while monitoring hunt activities near Oakham. The women were dragged to the ground by a group of men in a field on Saturday afternoon. Those involved have provided witness statements to officers and say the men were acting a stewards for the […]

There is less than two weeks left for you to have your say on the controversial plan to shut Market Harborough tip. Over 3.500 people have already taken part in a public consultation into the proposed closure, along with two others in Leicestershire. The County Council has proposed the closures and to reduce opening hours […]