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A Market Harborough campaigner has met rail bosses after a blunder further delayed the opening of new toilets at Market Harborough station. Cubicles inside the building are too small, meaning the facilities, which were due to open to passengers today, won’t be available for several more weeks. Cllr Phil Knowles met Network Rail officials at […]

More electric car charging points could be coming to the Harborough District if a bid for £935,000 of government funding is successful. Leicestershire County Council is one of five local authorities to apply for the cash, which would fund 100 points across the county, the majority of which would be placed in residential areas. Council […]

A Market Harborough dental practice is being forced to stop providing NHS treatment to thousands of patients. Brookside Dental has been unable to recruit a new dentist to treat people on the NHS, despite advertising the position for the last year. NHS treatment will end for 4,500 adult patients in October, although the practice is […]

A man accused of seriously injuring a hunt saboteur near Sibbertoft has pleaded not guilty. Chris Mardles, 25, is charged with causing grievous bodily harm, after a horse was ridden over a male activist during a meet in September 2020. Police say the member of the Northants Hunt Saboteurs group suffered a collapsed lung and […]

A fundraising drive has been launched after a much-loved former worker at a Market Harborough children’s nursery was diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disease. The condition, known as Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD), has left Rose Darnbrough with limited speech, mobility and memory, and needing around-the-clock care. Rose, 67, from Lubenham, was a popular member of […]

Owners of a Harborough Well-Being Centre are to appeal the decision to refuse them permission to build sustainable homes on part of the site. Concerns over residential development in the open countryside were among reasons the plan for Archway Health and Well-being Centre was rejected by Harborough District Council. Councillors did grant planning permission for […]

Floral tributes have been left at the scene of a crash on the A427 which claimed the lives of an elderly couple. The husband and wife aged in their 80s died following the head-on collision near Brampton Ash on Monday lunchtime. Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses to the crash, which happened at around […]

The population of the Harborough District has risen at one of the fastest rates in the country. New census data shows it has gone up by over 12,000 in the past ten years to 97,600, a rise of 14.3%, which is the biggest jump in the East Midlands. The number of people living in the […]

Police say a motorcyclist involved in a crash with a car in Market Harborough did not suffer serious injuries. Emergency services were called to Coventry Road at around 12.30pm, following the collision near the Farndon Road junction. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM the male rider suffered ‘no life-changing’ or life-threatening injuries’. Coventry Road […]

Issues with the size of cubicles has delayed the opening of new toilets at Market Harborough railway station. The facilities were due to open on Thursday, but final checks by Network Rail revealed the problem. The company says it emerged there is not enough room to allow people to walk past when cubicle doors are […]