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Specialist machinery has been drafted in to complete flood prevention work on the River Welland in Market Harborough. It is to enable dredging and de-silting to take place in hard to reach areas, including under the bridges on Kettering Road and Northampton Road. The work, being carried out by contractors Ebsford Environmental, on behalf of […]

Major resurfacing and maintenance work on the A6 between Market Harborough and Desborough is behind schedule, due to the wintry weather last month. It means the overnight road closure will now continue until at least next Wednesday. Highway bosses at Leicestershire County Council say the inclement weather in recent weeks has impacted the programme of […]

Desborough’s fire crew is pleading with people to think about where they park, after they got stuck for 45 minutes early this morning. They could not respond to 999 calls until Police arrived and located owners of cars, which were blocking the path of their fire engine on a terraced street in Rothwell at 2am. […]

Over 10,000 Coronavirus vaccines have now been given in Market Harborough. Nearly everyone aged over 70, registered with the town’s Medical Centre and its sister surgery in Husbands Bosworth, have had the jab, just two months after the immunisation programme began. Staff are now preparing to vaccinate a further 1400 people in their 60s at […]

Developers are being praised for the way have protected and restored Market Harborough’s World War One Memorial Portico. It was the only part of the former Cottage Hospital not to be demolished, instead incorporated into a new 70-bedroom care home, which has now opened on Coventry Road. The portico, a Grade II listed-structure, features marble […]

Harborough District Council has approved a rise in its share of Council tax. The charge will increase by £5 a year to £172.96 for the average Band D property, a increase of 2.98% per cent, the maximum permitted by government. Increasing costs and reduced income, as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, and a reduction […]

Vandals have ripped down metal fencing and damaged the table tennis table in Market Harborough’s Welland Park. They targeted the area outside the café, which has been temporarily fenced off to prevent people using picnic benches during lockdown. Fencing around the bandstand was also damaged late last night, or early this morning. Police were called […]

Police seized a car after it was spotted with no back bumper in Market Harborough on Saturday night. Officers say they stopped the Peugeot 207 ‘due to it’s condition’ and the driver was reported for having no insurance. Numerous vehicles have been seized across the District this year as Police continue to target illegal drivers. […]

A discarded cigarette is thought to have started a fire that damaged the outside of a house in Desborough on Saturday night. Firefighters dealt with the blaze in Hawfinch Green and provided first aid to the resident, a man, who suffered minor burns to his hands. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service say the fire caused […]

Thieves have stolen a substantial amount of goods from a lorry parked up overnight beside the A4304. They cut open the side of the curtain-sided vehicle in a layby near Walcote, between 8pm on Wednesday and 6am on Thursday morning. Parts for Tesla cookers were among the items taken. Harborough Police are appealing for information. […]