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Final plans are being put in place ahead of tomorrow’s Market Harborough Carnival. Volunteers, who took over running the event last year, say they have turned into more of a festival this year, with live music continuing at the Symington’s Recreation Ground into the evening. There will be all the traditional elements too, including the […]

A Leicestershire woman who killed her newborn baby by forcing something down her throat and then leaving her to die, has been jailed for life. Hannah Cobley, 29, left the child wrapped in plastic bags in an overgrown area at a farm in Stoney Stanton, where she lived with her parents. She later searched the […]

Leicestershire Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct after the death of one of its most senior detectives. Det Ch Insp Rob Widdowson died on Monday afternoon, just hours after being interviewed by the force over a fraud allegation. The circumstances surrounding his death near Syston are being investigated by British […]

A warning is being issued after a distraction thief stole a mobile phone from a hair salon in Market Harborough yesterday. The man went into Charlotte Frances in Northampton Road at about 12.20pm and distracted customers and staff by asking to use a pen. He then stole a customer’s phone from the reception area by […]

£100,000 has been secured for a new skatepark in Kibworth. Cash from developers who have built in the Kibworths will pay for the facility, after it was obtained by the Parish Councils. It can’t go up on the parks they own, because access for construction traffic would prove difficult and it would be too close […]

Concerns about Market Harborough’s Urgent Care Centre have been aired by a health watchdog. In recent weeks a number of people have been left unhappy at being turned away from the out-of-hours service at the St Luke’s Treatment Centre, which is advertised as a ‘walk-in’ service, being told they need to make an appointment. Leicestershire […]

The Market Harborough Chamber of Trade and Commerce is pledging to do more to speak up for local business. It’s looking for new members to help with that, so it can represent a wider range of the business community. Next week the group is hosting a drop-in event for people to find out more about […]

Thieves have stolen around 100 newly-planted flowers from Welland Park in Market Harborough during the middle of the night. They dug up the Geraniums from beds adjacent to the tennis courts, during the early hours of Monday. Harborough Council say the theft is thought to have happened at about 4am. A spokesman told Hfm: “This […]

A car ended up on its side in a ditch after a crash between Kibworth and Wistow this morning. Firefighters had to release the driver after being called to the Kibworth Road/Station Road junction just after 7.30am, after a Peugeot 207 and Vauxhall Corsa collided. Crews from Market Harborough and Wigston attended the scene, along […]

The design of this year’s Wistow Maze has been revealed and it’s in the shape of an astronaut to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon. The theme was chosen after it proved the most popular suggestion when the tourist attraction asked for ideas. The giant maze, which is created in […]