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Little Bowden Bowling Club has marked the start of its new season with a celebration after securing investment of more than £44,000. Members are thanking Harborough District Council for funding which has paid for a new lawn mower and improvements to the car park. Councillor Peter James, Chairman of the council, visited to mark the […]

Residents are being invited to have their say on major plans for up to 4,000 homes near Great Glen at a series of consultation events this week. The first takes place this afternoon at Great Glen Village Hall, with a second event in Stoughton tomorrow, as developers Urban & Civic and Homes England set out […]

The government is being asked to reconsider a decision to approve a new housing development in Kibworth Beauchamp. Harborough District Council recently gave the go-ahead for up to 32 affordable homes on land off Fleckney Road, despite objections over traffic impacts, pressure on local services and conflicts with the neighbourhood plan. Previous proposals to develop […]

Parents and carers are being invited to a community event in Market Harborough focused on the growing impact of screen use on children’s health and wellbeing. “Tackling the Screendemic: Helping Families Take Back Control of Screen Time” takes place at 7pm this Thursday at St Joseph’s Catholic Voluntary Academy. The event will feature guest speaker […]

More than 500 members of the scouting community paraded through Market Harborough for St George’s Day. Scouts, Cubs, Beavers and Squirrels from across the district took part in the annual event yesterday, which was followed by a host of activities. The parade was led by The Church Lads and Church Girls Brigade Whetstone, as people […]

No-one was injured after two collisions caused lengthy delays on the A14 this morning. Two light goods vehicles were involved in a crash on the westbound carriageway between Welford and Catthorpe at around 8am, leaving a large amount of debris on the road. Initially both carriageways were closed before a lane closure was put in […]

Campaigners are celebrating after plans for a community centre on Burford Green in Market Harborough were scrapped. More than 1,300 people signed a petition opposing the proposal, which had been put forward as one option for the park by Harborough District Council, with the main concerns including extra traffic being generated on Western Avenue. The […]

A teenage boy from Fleckney has died after a crash in Leicester. 16-year-old Tyler Barrett suffered serious injuries after being involved in a collision with two vans at the junction of Welford Road and Baldwin Road just after 3pm last Tuesday. He sadly died in hospital on Thursday. Leicestershire Police say Tyler was a strong […]

By Tess Rushin, Local Democracy Reporter ‘Putrid, foul, decayed’ – these words are included in the applicant’s own odour assessment for a site outlined for 550 Leicestershire homes. IM Land initially submitted a plan for the hundreds of homes on land at Frolesworth Road in Broughton Astley to Harborough District Council (HDC) last November. Initial […]