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A plan to transform a long-standing derelict site in Market Harborough into 79 new flats is being recommended for the go-ahead. The development at the corner of St Mary’s Road and Kettering Road would see three apartment blocks built of four and five-storeys, to house the one and two-bedroom flats. The historic former flour mill […]

A great-grandmother has been celebrating her 100th birthday in Market Harborough. Florrie Brown is one of the first people in the country to receive a royal birthday card from newly-crowned King Charles, following his coronation. Florrie, who grew up in Wellingborough before moving to the Willows Nursing and Residential Home, marked the special occasion surrounded […]

Vandals have repeatedly targeted a re-vamped children’s play area in Market Harborough. Just two weeks after it was upgraded, a new play tunnel has been damaged, balancing beam broken and rubber mulch damaged at the site in Coales Gardens, on the Alvington Way estate. Harborough District Council is asking anyone with information about who was […]

A farm building in a Harborough village has been left badly damaged after a fire broke out late last night. Four fire crews were needed to tackle the blaze on Welford Road in Arnesby, after a 999 call was made just before 11pm. They building was ‘well alight’ when the first firefighters arrived at the […]

A Market Harborough man has been jailed for four years for his involvement in a gang which supplied large amounts of illegal drugs. Conor Sherwood, 28, was arrested after Police uncovered a sophisticated network which transported cocaine and amphetamine from Liverpool to be sold in Northamptonshire, over a two year period from August 2019. It […]

The six-month closure of a well-used pedestrian bridge over the railway in Kibworth has been delayed over safety concerns. Network Rail had planned to shut the structure on School Road later this week, but will now keep it open until the end of June, while further discussions take place about a planned diversion route, which […]

Strike action means there will be no train services from Market Harborough tomorrow and on Saturday. Drivers at East Midlands Railway, who are members of the ASLEF union, are walking out in an on-going row over pay and conditions. There will also be disruption on Friday when other staff strike, with a significantly reduced service […]

Members of Market Harborough’s Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra are travelling to Scotland this week to perform concerts with fellow musicians they met on-line. They built up a lasting friendship with the Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra after teaming up during the Covid lockdown and the two groups will now get to meet in-person for the first time. The […]

There are calls for a ‘banking hub’ to be created in Market Harborough as the town loses another bank today. HSBC is closing the doors of its branch on High Street for the final time, blaming the decision on more customers using on-line services. It is the second of three bank closures in the town centre […]

A new state-of-the-art sports hall has been opened at Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough. Former student Andrew Stamp, a British Youth Olympic trampolining silver medalist, cut the ribbon to officially open the £1.2m facility, which will be used by students and made available to the community. A new all-weather pitch has also been unveiled […]