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Christmas lights have been switched on in Market Harborough. Small Christmas trees are twinkling above over 80 businesses, the tree on The Square is lit, and there are displays on Church Street and the Symington Building. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, the planned ‘switch on’ event this year had to be cancelled.

Health and Council officials have expressed deep concern over a surge in Covid-19 cases across Harborough and Leicestershire as a whole. The infection rate in the District is now up to 333 cases per 100,000 people – well above the national average of 270 – and three times the number a month ago – the […]

A newly formed cycling club in Kibworth has been inundated with donations of second-hand children’s bikes after launching a Christmas appeal. Members of Kibworth Easy Riders are using their maintenance skills to make them look as good as new, before they can be given as presents to children whose families cannot afford the cost of […]

A Market Harborough man was detained after Police were called to reports of illegal hare coursing last night. Officers pursued a vehicle through a muddy field in the village of Noseley after being alerted at 9.15pm. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police said: “Officers were deployed and found a vehicle on the land, with dogs also […]

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of importing a Class B drug after Harborough Police raided a house in Broughton Astley this morning. Officers say they acted after being alerted by Border Force officials, who had intercepted after a package containing cannabis worth £85,000. A man, aged 46, and a woman, aged 49, are […]

A Market Harborough man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail. The 71-year-old was questioned about the death of Elaine Geoghegan, who died on August 12th last year, when she was found face down in a pond in her back garden in Shelland Close, on the Ashley Way estate. Leicestershire Police launched […]

Harborough Police have recovered a haul of catalytic converters believed to have been stolen from cars in recent days. Officers discovered 27 of them piled up while patrolling near the village of Ullesthorpe last night, and also recovered an Audi car believed to be linked to the thefts. Enquiries are on-going in a bid to […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Market Harborough town centre. The main tree on The Square, sponsored by Market Harborough Building Society, is now in place and work has begun to put up 85 smaller trees above business premises. Alden Electrical is carrying out the installations as part of a subsidised scheme. […]

An increase in illegal hare coursing in rural parts of the Harborough District is concerning farmers. There have been recent incidents in Great Bowden, Hallaton, Slawston and Shearsby. Those involved are causing damage by driving 4×4 vehicles through crops in fields, damaging hedges and smashing down gates. Harriot Ranson is from the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire […]

Police have launched a murder investigation and arrested a man following the death of a woman in Market Harborough last year. The 71-year-old is being questioned by detectives on suspicion of murder, after the body of a woman, aged 70, was found in the back garden of her home in Shelland Close on the Ashley […]