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A search has been launched for the owner of a wedding ring who may have lost it at a Market Harborough factory decades ago. It was found this week during work to unblock a drain in the male toilets at Harboro Rubber Company. The gold ring has ‘KB’ and 3/7 engraved on the inside – […]

A popular Police Community Support Officer was left overwhelmed after schoolchildren in Desborough gave her an impromptu round of applause. PSCO Kerry York was on patrol walking past Havelock Junior School yesterday afternoon, when youngsters having an outdoor PE lesson started clapping, to salute her and say thanks for what she does for the community. […]

More than half of adults living in the Harborough District have now had a Coronavirus vaccine. Just over 40,614 people have received a jab, that’s 53% of those aged 16 and over. Of those vaccinated, 30,992 were aged 55 or over and 9,622 people aged between 16 and 54 have received a first dose. The […]

A warning has been issued to parents in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire over fears easing latest lockdown restrictions will spark a surge in railway trespass incidents involving children. British Transport Police and Network Rail are urging them to emphasise the dangers of youngsters playing around railway lines, while a hard-hitting safety film is also set to be shown […]

Market Harborough has been named as one of Britain’s leading shopping locations. The town is ranked the 27th best performing, and the best in the East Midlands, in a list of 1,000 retail centres compiled by strategic retail property consultancy, Harper Dennis Hobbs. Despite the impact of the pandemic on the High Street, the town […]

Police are launching a new operation aimed at dealing with anti-social behaviour in and around Market Harborough. The appropriately named ‘Operation Behave’ will coincide with the easing of lockdown restrictions, when incidents in parks and open spaces are expected to rise. It will see a dedicated ‘ASB car’, with officers crewing it responding directly to […]

A competition that showcases young music talent in and around Market Harborough received sixty entries – despite having to move on-line this year. The Junior X Factor judges spent six hours watching the video submissions and after difficult deliberations narrowed them down to 14 singers and musicians. Sue Benson from organisers, the Great Bowden Recital […]

People aged 50 and over across Harborough are being invited to get a Coronavirus vaccine- if they have not yet been invited for one. Jabs are being given at three hospitals in Leicester, the Fielding Palmer Hospital in Lutterworth and Loughborough Hospital. Leicestershire’s NHS say people can book to have vaccine at one of five […]

Police have seized a van after the occupants tried to steal catalytic converters from cars in North Kilworth and Walcote last night. Officers, who had responded to reports from villagers, found it abandoned on Mere Lane, Bittesby, after the driver failed to stop for them. Enquiries to trace those who were in the vehicle are […]

An Army bomb disposal team was called to Market Harborough late last night, after a suspected wartime mortar bomb was found in the River Welland. The alert was a false alarm though – the object turned out to be an old car part. Officers say it had been left on riverbank, close to Lidl off […]