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A thief has admitted stealing goods worth over £1,300 from shops in Market Harborough. Owen Palmer targeted Superdrug on The Square three times in eleven days last August, stealing items totalling over £1,000. He then stole products worth over £100 from the neighbouring Tesco store in November. Palmer, 33, of Gooding Avenue, Leicester, appeared before […]

An appeal has been launched in a bid to give Easter Eggs to residents and staff at care homes in and around Market Harborough. Town marketing services company MRM want to bring smiles to the faces of residents, who have not had visitors due to lockdown, and recognise the hard work of staff during the […]

Detectives are continuing to gather evidence after a cyber-attack on a Market Harborough school’s IT systems earlier this year. Leicestershire Police say the investigation into the ‘sophisticated hack’ at Welland Park Academy is on-going, including taking statements from pupils who were affected. The school’s IT network was infiltrated and personal computers belonging to over 90 […]

Two main roads in Market Harborough and Little Bowden will close so resurfacing work can take place. Welland Park Road will be shut to traffic between 9am and 3pm this Friday (March 26th) and part of Kettering Road in Little Bowden will be closed during the day next month. The stretch between Gores Lane and […]

A Market Harborough man who made face shields for thousands of front-line NHS workers and others has received around 200 thank you cards and letters. Aaron Shrive used his own 3D printers to produce 7,500 during the height of the first wave of Coronavirus last March, when there was a national shortage of PPE. He […]

The number of people unemployed across Harborough has increased, as the impact of the pandemic on the economy continues to be felt. 1,950 people were out of work and claiming benefits last month – 85 more than in January. Figures out today show the jobless total is nearly three times what it was before the […]

A cherry tree has been planted in Market Harborough’s Welland Park to acknowledge the impact of Covid-19 – one year since the first lockdown began. Blossoming every March, it will serve as a lasting tribute to people who have lost their lives and to those who have offered help and support to others during the […]

People have paused to observe a one minute’s silence in Market Harborough, to remember all those who have lost their lives to Coronavirus. The silence at midday was followed by the tolling of a bell 165 times at St Dionysius Church and other across the area, to mark each person from the Harborough District who […]

Harborough’s Environmental Crime Officers are investigating after the remnants of a large number of cannabis plants were dumped near King’s Norton. They were found yesterday in 15 bin bags fly-tipped at the side of Gartree Road. Soil was also in the bags. The waste is being checked for any clues as to where it came […]