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People are being asked their views on tackling climate change across Harborough. After declaring a Climate Emergency two years ago, the District Council is preparing an Action Plan, and wants people to have their say, during a public consultation. The Council has committed to reducing its own emissions to net zero, as far as practically […]

After over a year of being closed due to the pandemic, Kilworth House Theatre will welcome back performers and audiences in August. The summer outdoor season will open with ‘Kilworth’s Memories of the Musicals’ – a show featuring the best songs from each one of the nineteen musicals produced at Kilworth House since opening in […]

A Dispersal Order had to be put in place in Market Harborough last night after fights broke out between young men. Police received a number of reports of disorder at the Symington’s Recreation Ground and in the town centre and say members of the public and children who witnessed the incidents were left ‘very distressed.’ […]

The design for this year’s Wistow Maze has been revealed and it’s in the shape of a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Owner of the popular Harborough tourist attraction says it’s to mark a new beginning of hope and freedom in light of the pandemic, which meant the venue couldn’t open last year. Created in […]

Leicestershire and Rutland Blood Bikes has been honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Volunteers have been recognised for their work in delivering blood and other medical products to hospitals and to air ambulance crews at the scenes of emergencies. Most of the […]

A Health and Well-Being Centre on the edge of Market Harborough is set to be expanded in a scheme aiming to be one of the most sustainable in the country. To be known as ‘Harborough Solar Rise,’ the development at Archway Health and Well Being Centre, on Lubenham Hill, would also include eight custom-built homes […]

East Midlands Ambulance Service has welcomed the announcement all of its crews will be given body-worn cameras, following an increase in assaults. Staff reported 1,048 incidents last year – a rise of over 300 compared with three years ago. The cameras are being provided by the NHS to all ten ambulance trusts in the country, […]

Planning permission has been granted for the first phase of a massive new housing estate on the edge of Market Harborough. 164 homes, 56 of which will be ‘affordable,’ will be built on land adjoining Coleridge Way, off Kettering Road in Little Bowden. Eventually 600 homes will go up on 88 acres of land stretching […]

The go-ahead has been given for Market Harborough’s former Angel Hotel to become a permanent base for Brooke House College. The District Council approved the change of use at a meeting last night. The historic High Street building, which shut as a hotel last year, will become the main catering base for the college – […]

Highway bosses want people’s views on making temporary traffic lights on Kettering Road in Little Bowden permanent. They were installed either side of the railway bridge last year – as part of a scheme to improve safety for cyclists – replacing the previous give way system. Leicestershire County Council has launched a four-week public consultation […]