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A weekend heat-health alert has been issued as temperatures across Harborough are set to reach nearly 30C. The region is set to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife as a plume of warm air moves in from the south. The amber alert, in place until Monday, indicates high temperatures could affect all ages and […]

Market Harborough author Tamsin Winter has launched her latest fiction book which centres on the impact of social media on teenagers. Aimed at 11 to 14-year-olds, ‘Bad Influence’ follows teenager Amelia Bright who succumbs to the pressures of being popular when she is talked into sending a semi-naked photograph to a boy she likes, which […]

A teenage boy has been injured in a crash in Market Harborough. He was riding a scooter which was involved in collision with a car on Hammond Way, at the junction with Sherrard Road, just before 3.30pm. Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service attended the scene. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM the boy […]

North Northamptonshire Council is to sell off a site in Desborough which has stood derelict for over 20 years. The authority’s Executive has declared the former Lawrence’s shoe factory site as ‘surplus’ and it will now be put up for sale. The council inherited the site off Harborough Road from the former Kettering Borough Council, […]

Staff at BBC Radio Leicester are striking over cuts to local radio services. The 48-hour walkout by members of the National Union of Journalists started yesterday, with similar action taking place up and down the country. The cuts will see more regional programming, with the NUJ saying it will result in less coverage of important […]

Future plans for a long-standing derelict site in Desborough labelled ‘a jungle’ have been considered behind closed doors. North Northamptonshire Council’s Executive discussed the former Lawrence’s shoe factory site a meeting this morning, but the public and press were barred from proceedings due to the ‘commercially sensitive’ nature of the report. The authority, who own […]

Harborough Big Green Week is to celebrate everything sustainable happening in and around the town. It will launch at Saturday’s Market Harborough Carnival and a host of events will follow before a ‘Big Green Picnic’ in Welland Park concludes the week on Sunday June 18th. There will be a ‘Green Street’ at the carnival showground […]

Leicestershire’s Rural Policing Team is on track to recover stolen property totalling £1m in less than a year. Farm equipment and plant machinery, including items taken from Weston by Welland, Smeeton Westerby and Glooston, have been among the haul found by officers and returned to owners. A significant number of arrests have also been made. […]

A charity is launching a new project to help female survivors of childhood sexual abuse in and around Market Harborough. Leicestershire-based Quetzal has secured NHS funding to deliver free counselling and other support to women who need it. By offering a safe space, counselling services, empowerment workshops, and ongoing support networks, the charity aims to […]

A new C0-Op store is set to be built in Great Glen after planning permission was granted to redevelop an area in the centre of the village into new homes. The scheme will see the current shop demolished along with derelict buildings on the adjacent former Thorpes Joinery factory site, off Church Road. Eight houses […]