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A new Argos store will open later this month inside Sainsbury’s in Market Harborough. It will replace the shop in St Mary’s Place, which shut last March during the first lockdown and then permanently. Sainsbury’s, who own Argos, say staff who worked at the standalone store will move to the new outlet, which will open […]

Plans to build a new apartments in Market Harborough town centre are being recommended for approval. The scheme will see the demolition of a former vehicle repair centre, at the corner of Abbey Street and Fairfield Road. It would be replaced with a two-and-a-half storey building, containing nine, one and two-bed apartments. Harborough District Council […]

Police want people to continue passing on information about illegal drugs misuse, after a raid in Market Harborough yesterday. Officers say concerns from members of the community led to the warrant being executed at a property in Lathkill Street. A large quantity of cannabis was found along with with a small amount of suspected cocaine. […]

Police have raided a travellers site near Great Oxendon and recovered two suspected stolen items. Officers executed a search warrant at Greenfields on Braybrooke Road at around 11am yesterday. A Northamptonshire Police spokesperson told Hfm the operation followed ‘intelligence that was received’, but was unable to confirm what was recovered for ‘operational reasons.’ No arrests […]

What is thought to be the centrepiece jewel of King Henry VIII’s lost crown has turned up in a field near Market Harborough – 400 years after it went missing. Kevin Duckett from Fleckney discovered the tiny gold and enamel figure while using his metal detector in fields near Little Oxendon. He found it in […]

Police have released CCTV images after an elderly woman had her purse stolen in Lutterworth, which contained £740.  Officers want to speak to the man following the theft, at around midday last Tuesday, in Church Street. A heartless thief pretended to be a good Samaritan, by helping the lady, aged 86, down steps outside a […]

Police recovered a stolen caravan near a Harborough village after officers from two forces teamed up. PC Hutch Hutchings, of Northants Police, received information about a caravan left in suspicious circumstances near to Shawell, close to the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire and Warwickshire border, on Saturday. He and officers from the Leicestershire force went to the scene, confirmed […]

Most villagers in North Kilworth have got their internet and phone lines back after being left without connections since Thursday afternoon. Openreach engineers worked throughout the weekend to restore them, after a major cable was cut, leaving around 400 homes and businesses disconnected. A spokespeson for Openreach told Hfm: “Most people are now back in […]

A rapid Coronavirus test centre for keyworkers could open in the Harborough District as soon as later this week. It will help identify the one in three people who have Covid-19, but don’t know it, by providing ‘lateral flow’ tests for those not displaying symptoms and results within a few hours. Rapid testing is only […]

It’s Children’s Mental Health week and pictures of colourful young hands have appeared in windows of houses throughout Kibworth. The ‘Well-Being Wave’ is the idea of three Mums who started the Kibworth Mental Health and Well-Being Fund, and wanted to raise awareness, bring the community together and smiles to people’s faces, like the pictures of […]