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A man has been handed a suspended jail sentence after breaking into a Market Harborough coffee shop. Paul Alayla stole an empty till, milk and hand soap from Blend Coffee and Cakes, in Manor Walk, during the early hours of Friday. He smashed a window in the front door to get in and after being […]

A massive new housing estate on the edge of Market Harborough could get the go-ahead next week. Planning officers are recommending councillors grant planning permission for 350 homes on 36 acres of fields off Eady Drive, between Northampton Road and the Brampton Valley Way, east of the Blackberry Grange estate. The land is identified for […]

Police had to smash a window to rescue a distressed dog from a hot car in Market Harborough town centre yesterday afternoon. Officers acted just after 3pm, when a member of the public reported concerns for the welfare of the terrier, which was locked inside the vehicle, parked on High Street. A spokesperson for Leicestershire […]

Health bosses have approved a £450m revamp of Leicester’s hospitals. All urgent care will move to the Royal Infirmary and Glenfield sites with new maternity and children’s hospitals at the LRI. Leicester General Hospital will be downgraded, with some of the site sold to help pay for the overall scheme. The masterplan has however proved […]

Harborough and Wigston has a new Neighbourhood Policing Area Commander. Inspector Jim Purdie takes over from Inspector Siobhan Gorman, who has been in charge for the past three years. Insp Purdie joined Leicestershire Police in 2002 and has worked in a number of areas across the force, including frontline response, armed policing, training, in the […]

A shake-up of Parliamentary boundaries is recommending one MP serves the entire Harborough District. Currently the area falls into three constituencies – Harborough, South Leicestershire and Rutland & Melton. The Boundary Commission is proposing the new Harborough constituency takes in everywhere served by Harborough District Council – an electorate just over 71,000. The move would […]

Police and Council officials are to hold a meeting with residents over continued concerns about antisocial behaviour at Little Bowden Recreation Ground. It will take place at the park at 6.30pm next Wednesday (June 16th) A number of incidents in recent months have prompted Police patrols to be upped and temporary CCTV coverage to be […]

New calls are being made for a derelict site in Market Harborough to finally be redeveloped. The area at the corner of St Mary’s Road and Kettering Road, was part of the former Harborough Rubber site and despite plans to build flats and houses there, no work has ever started. An historic old flour mill […]

Independent shops and businesses across Harborough are uniting to support the upcoming Fiver Fest campaign. It will run from 12th to 26thJune and see retailers showcasing £5 offers in a bid to get people to support them. Fiver Fest is a free-to-join campaign, devised and run by Totally Locally, which calls on shoppers to spend […]

Volunteers from the South Leicestershire Wombles collected over 15 bags of rubbish from Harborough parks yesterday. The big clean up at Symington’s Recreation Ground, Welland Park, and Little Bowden Recreation Ground, was part of a county-wide litter pick for the Keep Britain Tidy campaign’s Great British Spring Clean. Over the past month members of the […]