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You can drop off donations for this year’s Hfm-backed Toys on The Table appeal from today. Harborough Market is the collection point for new toys and gifts, as the appeal aims to ensure disadvantaged youngsters across Leicestershire have a present to open on Christmas Day, when they otherwise wouldn’t. Over 4,000 children benefited last year […]

New concerns have been raised about the safety risk a derelict factory in Desborough poses to anyone who enters it. Police and the fire service shared their fears with council officials at a site meeting, held at the former Lawrence’s factory off Harborough Road. Youngsters have been getting into the dangerous building and earlier this […]

A search has been launched for a dog that was seen being dumped out of a van in a Harborough village yesterday afternoon. It is thought the animal may have been stolen after it was abandoned on Leire Lane in Ashby Parva, near Lutterworth, at around 2pm. Volunteers from animal welfare group Beauty’s Legacy are […]

A woman was freed from the wreckage of a car by firefighters after a crash on the A14 on Saturday afternoon. Three vehicles were involved in the collision on the westbound carriageway between junction two (Kelmarsh) and junction one (Welford) at about 2.20pm. A spokesperson for Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service told Hfm: “Crews from […]

The Harborough District has seen the fifth-highest increase in Coronavirus cases in the country in the past week. Figures from Public Health England show 479 people tested positive in the seven days to yesterday – an increase of 192 on the previous week, representing a 67% rise. Just over 13,000 people across Harborough have contracted […]

Harborough Police are carrying out ‘test purchasing’ operations to ensure shops are not selling alcohol to under-age youngsters. The first took place on Friday evening, with staff at six stores in Lutterworth and one in Walcote all refusing to sell items to Police cadets aged under 18, who posed as customers. Officers have praised the […]

Remembrance Sunday was marked with events across the Hfm region yesterday. In Market Harborough, people gathered for a ceremony on The Square led by the Royal British Legion. Dignitaries, including Harborough MP Neil O’Brien, placed wreaths on the War Memorial and a two minute’s silence was observed at 11am. It was a scaled-back event again […]

A man from Broughton Astley has been handed a suspended prison sentence for his part in an organised crime group which supplied and distributed illegal drugs. Ashok Kholia, 59, of Grantham Avenue, admitted allowing a premises to be used for the production of Class B drugs at Leicester Crown Court. He was arrested after a […]

Events to mark the Remembrance period continue in Market Harborough tomorrow. A short ceremony will be held at the WW1 Memorial Portico in the grounds of Rosewood Manor care home on Coventry Road at 3pm and the Royal British Legion will also lay wreaths in Welland Park. Stewart Harrison, Chairman of the Market Harborough branch […]

Firefighters from Market Harborough have been helping to deal with a major fire at the Walkers Crisp factory in Leicester. They were among crews from nine fire stations sent to tackle the blaze in the roof of the base in Beaumont Leys this morning. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service say that has now been reduced […]