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Emergency government cash is to help families across the Hfm Region struggling to afford food and other essentials because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Leicestershire County Council has been handed just over £541,000 and over £771,000 has been given to Northamptonshire. The funding will be distributed to charities and community groups working on the front-line to […]

Harborough District Council could become one of the first authorities in the country to make its on-line meetings accessible to people with hearing impairments. It’s after a motion, calling for sign language or subtitles to be provided on the live broadcasts, was unanimously back by councillors at a meeting last night. All the council’s public […]

A shed was destroyed after a fire in the back garden of a house in Desborough. It is believed heat from a ride-on lawnmower, which had recently been used, started the blaze, which spread to a hedgerow. Firefighters were called to Brampton Wood Lane at 1.15pm yesterday and quickly extinguished the fire.  

A virtual tourism summit involving firms from across the Harborough District is taking place today. It is aimed at sharing ideas on how to overcome the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, which has had a severe impact on the tourism and hospitality sector. Harborough District Council has organised the talks as it also looks at […]

A stranger danger alert has been issued two schoolgirls were followed by a man in a van in Market Harborough. He stopped beside one of them and stared at her near Longleat Close, on the Ashley Way estate, just after 8am yesterday and then drove beside the girl and a friend, who she met up […]

Robbers who stole Apple electronic products worth £5m from a lorry abandoned the getaway truck in Lutterworth. A driver and a security guard were tied up during the incident, that began on the sliproad of the M1 at junction 18 near Crick in Northamptonshire, just before 8pm last Tuesday. The gang loaded the goods, including […]

A thief who stole bikes worth over £1,000 from Market Harborough railway station has been jailed and ordered to pay compensation to his five victims. Richard Marlow, 41, stole four cycles from a temporary storage area outside the front of the station during July, August and September last year. He also stole one from the […]

People power has forced BT to scrap plans to remove public payphones in Market Harborough and Kibworth. Residents raised a number of concerns about the proposal to take away phone boxes from The Crescent in Market Harborough and Station Street in Kibworth Beauchamp. BT had proposed removing them due to low usage. Kibworth Beauchamp Parish […]

There are calls for sign language to be provided during Harborough District Council’s on-line public meetings. All are taking place remotely at the moment, with members of the public able to watch the live broadcasts on their computers. A motion to be discussed at tonight’s meeting of the full council says people who are deaf […]

Firefighters freed a driver from the wreckage of a van after a crash on the A14 near Welford this morning. It happened on the eastbound carriageway, close to junction 1, at around 7.30am. The van was involved in collision with a box van, and although the driver was trapped, he was not seriously injured. There […]