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A man has been arrested in Market Harborough today following an incident at a pub on Saturday night. The 32-year-old is being held on suspicion of two public order offences, during which staff at the Sugar Loaf on High Street were allegedly spat at. The man was also arrested on suspicion of shoplifting offences.

A driver was caught travelling at 113mph during Harborough Police action on the A6 over the Bank Holiday weekend. They were one of a number stopped by officers for speeding offences on the bypass between Kibworth and Great Glen, and now face a potential driving disqualification. PC Paul Farrar from the Priority Policing Team, one […]

Firefighters rescued a “distressed” foal from a brook in Lubenham yesterday afternoon after it got stuck in mud. They were called to off the A4304 Harborough Road just after 1.30pm and were able to free the animal before it was checked over by the RSPCA and a vet and being reunited with its mother. A […]

A woman was taken to hospital after her car crashed down a steep bank at the side of the A6 bypass between Kibworth and Great Glen on Sunday morning. Fire crews first had to stabilise the Peugeot 207 to stop it slipping into a water-filled ditch before cutting her free. The vehicle had collided with […]

There are no trains running through Market Harborough for the next six days. Coaches are replacing all services to allow for engineering works at the railway station. East Midlands Trains say they are running to Leicester and Kettering every 15 minutes. During the closure of the line, a new section of straighter track is being […]

Police posters warning of the dangers of inhaling nitrous oxide have gone up around the Warwick Road Recreation Ground in Kibworth. It comes after around 50 empty canisters of the so-called ‘laughing gas’ were found there last week. The substance was linked to five deaths in the UK last year. Canisters and discarded balloons, used […]

Police say nobody was seriously injured after a crash on Springfield Street in Market Harborough this morning. Officers, together with the Ambulance Service were called at 8.15am after two cars, a BMW and Chevrolet, collided at the junction with Sainsbury’s. One person was taken to Kettering General Hospital for treatment. The road was closed for […]

Passengers who will face six days of disruption next week will be able to park for free at Market Harborough railway station car park and get a complimentary hot drink and pastry from the café. East Midlands Trains hope it will encourage more people to use replacement coaches, rather than travel elsewhere to catch trains. The […]

Police patrols around Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough have been stepped up after a group of girls were followed by a man on Wednesday morning. The Year Seven students say he was filming and taking photos of them on his mobile. Other pupils at Robert Smyth and other town schools have also been warned […]

A Lutterworth teenager has been jailed for nine years for his part in an armed robbery at a jewellers in Hinckley. Aiden Rudock,18, of Gloster Road, and three other men were arrested a short time after the raid in January, when the gang’s getaway car crashed in Market Bosworth. They all pleaded guilty to robbery […]