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Major work is to take place to upgrade water pipes in Kibworth and Newton Harcourt. Severn Trent Water is to spend £3m replacing over three miles of ageing pipework with new plastic pipes, in a bid to reduce the number of leaks and bursts in the area. Work will start on Glen Road in Newton […]

Over 400 more houses will be built on two new estates on the edge of Market Harborough. Councillors approved plans at a meeting last night for 315 additional homes at Airfield Farm off Leicester Road, and 123 off Kettering Road, when the second phase of Overstone Park development begins. A separate planning application for a […]

Plans to build a ‘superjail’ near Market Harborough have been rejected. There were cheers from campaigners as councillors last night voted unanimously to refuse planning permission for the 1700- inmate prison being built on land near HMP Gartree. Harborough District Council’s planning committee ruled the £300m development would have had a harmful impact on the […]

New monitoring of air pollution caused by the burning of solid fuels is to take place across Harborough. The District Council will use government funding to carry it out and in-turn raise awareness of its potential impact on health., after a successful joint-bid with North West Leicestershire Council for £27,000. The move is aimed at […]

Campaigners against a massive new prison near Market Harborough will hold a protest before a decision is made on if it can be built. They will gather outside the District Council’s Symington Building HQ later today, ahead of a meeting of the planning committee, which will consider the proposal. People opposed to the so-called ‘super-jail’ […]

Pupils and staff are celebrating the opening of a new classroom at Church Langton Primary School. The project to replace an old mobile classroom has also created a new toilet block and other extra space at the village school. It has cost £227,000, with work funded by the Learn Academies Trust, after it was awarded […]

A lorry driver escaped without serious injury after their vehicle crashed through the central reservation and overturned on the A14. Miraculously the HGV did not collide with any other vehicles when it crossed from the eastbound to the westbound carriageway and came to rest on its side. It happened between junction 2, the Kelmarsh turn, […]

A lorry has crashed through the central reservation on the A14 and overturned on the opposite carriageway. Emergency services are at the scene between junction two, the Kelmarsh turn and junction three, the A6 turn near Rothwell. National Highways say the HGV crossed over from the eastbound carriageway onto the westbound carriageway and came to […]

Leicester City Football Club have unveiled a statue of late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha on what would have been his 64th birthday. It will serve as a lasting tribute to the former owner, who died in a helicopter crash outside the ground in 2018. Current and former players and staff were among those to join his […]

Thieves have stolen tools worth £5,000 from a builder’s van in Desborough. They struck off Matlock Way between 4.20 and 4.30am on Saturday and placed the tools in near-by gardens, before loading them into a white Ford Transit van and driving off. The gang were also caught on CCTV trying to get into other vehicles […]