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A pet cat that got stuck down a 20ft well for ten days is back home safe and well. Flea, who will soon be a year old, was rescued by firefighters after meowing was heard coming from the well in a neighbour’s garden. Crews were called to Main Street, near Loddington, near Rothwell, yesterday afternoon, and […]

The plan to make Market Harborough’s former Angel Hotel a permanent base for Brooke House College is set for the go-ahead. Council planning officers are recommending approval for the change of use of the historic High Street building, which shut as a hotel last year, so it can provide all the college’s catering facilities and […]

Drivers are being warned Scotland Road in Little Bowden will be closed overnight for the next three days while drainage work takes place at the railway bridge. It will be shut from 10pm til 6am, with the Network Rail work due to be completed by Friday morning. A diversion will be signposted via Bellfield Lane, […]

Members of the Harborough Social Runners have done their bit to support Captain Sir Tom Moore’s 100 Challenge. They aimed to run 100 laps of Welland Park and raise £100, although ended up completing 235 in three hours on Saturday, raising over £340. The family of the late NHS fundraiser wanted people to follow in […]

The Railway Arms pub in Kibworth has closed temporarily after its marquee blew away in the strong winds last night. The structure, which lifted despite being bolted down, ended up in a precarious position, partly stuck on the roof of a neighbouring property in Station Street, although no-one was injured. The Fire Service was called […]

Temporary traffic lights installed either side of the railway bridge on Kettering Road in Little Bowden last year are set to be made permanent. They were put up as part of a scheme to support safer cycling and walking during the Covid-19 lockdown and highway bosses say they have received lots of positive comments since. […]

Lutterworth Golf Club has received hundreds of messages of support after its clubhouse was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. It’s to re-open the course as soon as the investigation into the blaze is complete and says the base will be re-built as soon as insurance money is agreed, with temporary facilities put it […]

An investigation is underway after a major fire destroyed the clubhouse at Lutterworth Golf Club. Eight fire crews battled the blaze after it broke out at the large building off Rugby Road just after 10pm last night. The single-storey building has been left completely destroyed – no one injured. To complicate the firefighting operation, there […]

Plans are progressing to introduce new powers to help tackle the increasing use of so-called ‘laughing-gas’ across the Harborough District. A public consultation is set to be launched next month by the District Council, into introducing a new public place protection order. If implemented, it would ban people from using Nitrous Oxide in public places […]

The RSPCA is appealing for information after a group of boys threw a hedgehog into the River Welland in Market Harborough. Witnesses saw them blowing cannabis smoke into a bag containing the mammal, before it was thrown into the water. Thankfully, they were able to retrieve the hedgehog and its now being cared for at […]