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Police have made an arrest after a young girl was approached by a man in Great Glen. It happened on Ashby Rise just before 8.30am on Wednesday, when a man ‘tapped her on the shoulder.’ He did not speak to the girl and although not injured, she was left shaken by the incident. Officers have […]

The government has awarded the county council a further 1.79 million pounds to help retain and improve rural bus services across Leicestershire. The funding for the years 2024 and 2025 follows a similar amount awarded earlier this year, which led the authority to ‘pause’ a review of its subsidised services, including services in and around Market […]

Two teenagers were arrested after an incident in the grounds of Montsaye Academy in Rothwell as students were leaving to go home. Police say two boys entered the school site on Greening Road at about 3pm yesterday and started making threats, before chasing another boy. Officers were called and arrested boys aged 13 and 15 […]

Grants totalling over £400,000 will help boost community facilities across Harborough. They have been awarded by the District Council using money provided by housing developers. The project to create a new community hub at Kibworth Grammar School Hall, including relocating the village library there, has been boosted by just under £264,000, while Kibworth Scouts and […]

A Market Harborough man is to run 100 miles to raise money for a charity that means a lot to him. Ethan Marsh will trek from Harborough to Hunstanton in an around-the-clock journey, expected to take around 30 hours. Ethan, who only took up running seven months ago and is a regular at Market Harborough […]

A Market Harborough man has admitted burgling homes of two elderly people in Rothwell after tricking his way in. William Wallace called at the house of a 90-year-old man in Moorfield Road late at night, claiming he owed him money and targeted a 78-year-old woman, saying she needed work doing on the roof of her […]

Police say no-one was seriously injured after a crash on the B6047 near Market Harborough. Officers were called to Melton Road, close to the railway bridge between the A6 junction and East Langton, just before 5pm yesterday. Two vehicles had collided. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM no serious injuries were reported. The road […]

No trains services will run through Market Harborough this Saturday and next Wednesday as drivers stage their next round of strike action. Members of the ASLEF union at East Midlands Railway will walk-out in their on-going row over pay and conditions, meaning the operator will be unable to run any trains. The union has also […]

A young woman who died in a crash on the A427 near Market Harborough has been described  as a ‘fun-loving girl and fantastic mummy.’ 23-year-old Courtney Donnelly from Kettering was killed when the car she was a passenger in left Harborough Road in Brampton Ash and came to rest in a field, late on September […]

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in Kibworth is caring for an usual patient – an exhausted Manx Shearwater bird – thought to have got blown off-course during last week’s strong winds. The seabird is thought to have been en-route from the coast of west Wales to South America, where the species migrates to for the winter, but […]