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Harborough’s MP is welcoming yesterday’s budget, in particular the extra £5 billion pledged to the NHS to help deal with coronavirus. Neil O’Brien told Hfm the help for small businesses is also vital, as more cases continue to be confirmed across the country: Meanwhile Leicestershire County Council says it’s awaiting more details of extra money […]

A worker at a care home in Desborough has tested positive for Coronavirus. The Heather Holmes care home on Rushton Road says it is now working closely with Public Health England and following their advice. The case is being treated as ‘low-risk’. A spokesman for Northamptonshire County Council said: “Our social care and public health […]

Firefighters have rescued a horse that fell into a swimming pool after escaping from a field. Crews were called to the back of house in Desborough Road, Rushton just after midnight, when the family who live at the house were woken up by a commotion outside. The horse was sedated before specialist equipment was used […]

A new Multi-Use Games area costing £26,000 is to be installed at a park in Kibworth after planning permission was granted. It will be located in the former skatepark area at the Warwick Road Recreation Ground for youngsters to play football, basketball and other sports. Kibworth Harcourt Parish Council will use cash provided by developers […]

Market Harborough’s Farndon Fields Farm shop has been named the best in the UK! The family-run business has beaten off competition from dozens of others to be crowned Farm Shop Of The Year at the prestigious Shop Of The Year Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food. The awards recognise and promote excellence in […]

More Police officers are based in Market Harborough from today. A new operating model introduced by the Leicestershire Force aims to bring back more local policing to the area. Response Officers, who were relocated from the Fairfield Road station to Leicester five years ago, as part of cost-cutting, have returned under the new role of […]

A burglar who stole jewellery from a house in Desborough has been jailed for four and a half years. Danny Lane was disturbed by the homeowner after breaking into the house at 11am on January 23rd and then fled pursuing Police officers in a car. The 39-year-old, of no fixed abode, was arrested in London […]

A fundraising drive is being launched by a Market Harborough Mum to help research into a rare heart disease which claimed the life of her son. Julie Greenslade’s apparently healthy son Jamie Phillip died of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome last year. She an her family are supporting the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young – […]

A therapy dog stolen from the home of a 12-year-old girl with autism has been found dead. Three-year-old Dalmatian Lottie was taken during a burglary at Chloe Hopkins house in Peatling Parva in early December. Her Mum Gemma – who says her daughter is heartbroken – received the devastating news from a vet after the […]

The RSPCA is appealing for information after a starving critically-ill dog dumped in a crate near East Farndon had to be put down. The pedigree dog, of the Chinese Shar-Pei breed, which couldn’t walk and had half its fur missing due to a severe skin condition,was found at the Battle Of Naseby Prince Rupert’s Viewpoint […]