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The funeral of a popular Market Harborough Priest has taken place today. Father Owen O’Neill died earlier this month, aged 80, seven months after retiring from Our Lady Of Victories Roman Catholic Church, which he had led for 19 years. A funeral mass was held at the church this morning and was live-streamed on the […]

The coronavirus vaccine rollout across Harborough continues at pace. Latest figures show 4,704 people aged 45 to 49 in the District have now had a jab. That means 69% of that age group – the most recent to be offered the vaccine – have had one. People aged 44 are now being invited for a […]

A man has died after being found inside a car that was on fire near Rockingham. Fire crews were called to Cottingham Road just after 5.30am on Saturday morning. The body of man in his 50s was found inside and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Northamptonshire Police say the death is not being […]

Arsonists started a fire in a derelict house in Desborough on Saturday evening. Fire crews were called to deal with the blaze on the former Lawrence’s Factory site, on Harborough Road, at 7.45pm. Firefighters were able to prevent the blaze from spreading to the structure of the building, after rubbish was set alight on the […]

Thousands of pounds worth of damage has been caused after a corrosive substance was sprayed on around 30 vehicles in Market Harborough. The vandal attack happened in Caxton Street late on Saturday or early yesterday, leaving the bodywork of cars and vans badly damaged. The fire service attended to assess the hazardous substance and Police […]

A power cut is affecting part of southern Market Harborough. 457 properties were initially affected, including on the Southern Estate and Farndon Fields Estate. Western Power Distribution say the majority had electricity restored by 10am, although 29 still have no power. A spokesperson told Hfm and underground cable fault caused the outage and they hope […]

A new Air Ambulance shop has opened in Market Harborough today. The Air Ambulance Service has moved into bigger premises within St Mary’s Place, re-locating from close to the Market Hall, to a unit nearer to St Mary’s Road. The charity, which operates life-saving helicopters in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, has lost £2.1m during the pandemic, […]

Police are stepping up efforts to disrupt ‘County Lines’ drug dealing in Market Harborough. Officers from the Leicestershire force are teaming up with British Transport Police to target those using trains to get drugs into the town, and protect those being exploited to transport them. ‘County Lines’ is where illegal drugs are transported from larger […]

Businesses across Harborough are being warned about bogus letters telling them they need to buy air purifiers to comply with Covid-19 rules. They appear official, headed with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial strategy (BEIS) logo. The BEIS says the letter is a ‘scam’ and the claim is ‘not true’. The government department and […]

People are being encouraged to continue using the rapid Coronavirus test centre in Market Harborough. The facility, for people with no symptoms, uses lateral flow tests to quickly give results. A number of people infected, who didn’t know it, have been identified since it opened earlier this year. Although cases of Coronavirus remain low across […]