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The former finance boss of a Market Harborough holiday firm that went bust has been disqualified from being a Director of any company for eleven years. Jamie Tann (37) used £714,000, belonging to Diamond Shortbreak Holidays, to pay into his own bank account and that of a third party, by creating false payment requests. He […]

Market Harborough’s Town Centre Post Office is safe until at least the middle of July. A three-month extension to the branch inside the GT News Shop in St Mary’s Place has been granted, while discussions continue with those who have expressed an interest in taking on the service. It had been due to shut in […]

The chimes have been silenced and time is standing still at the St Dionyisus Church in Market Harborough, after the clock broke again. It was out of action for over three months last year, although started ticking and sounding again before Christmas following repairs and restoration work. The same problem  with the 117-year-old mechanism has […]

The building of 600 new homes on the edge of Market Harborough has moved a step closer, after planning bosses finally signed off the plan. They will go up on 88 acres of fields off Kettering Road at Clack Hill, stretching towards Braybrooke, together with a primary school, doctors surgery and community centre. Improvements to […]

A van was stolen from outside at house on Fleckney Road, Kilby, overnight and there is an appeal today for sightings of it. The white Mercedes Sprinter has the ‘Kilworth Flooring & Furnishings’ livery on it. The registration number of the van is LR15 FSP – anyone who has seen it should call Police on […]

A teenage drug dealer caught red handed in Market Harborough has been jailed for two years. Anfernee Duke was found with several wraps of crack cocaine and heroin when Police raided the hotel room he was staying in on October 1st last year. The 18-year-old was arrested at the Travelodge on Abbey Street, where officers […]

TV presenter and antiques specialist Kate Bliss is returning to Market Harborough next month. Kate Bliss, a regular on Bargain Hunt and Flog It, will be at the Antiques & Collectables Market in the Market Hall, on Sunday March 3rd, to offer free valuations to people. There were long queues of people wanting their treasured […]

A married couple who say they owe their lives to the Air Ambulance, after being flown to the same hospital in separate incidents, are the faces of the charity’s Valentine fundraising campaign. Stacey Price suffered serious injuries when he car crashed and overturned down a hill on the A427 near Dingley in July 2011 – […]

A luxury shoe manufacturer has been given the go-ahead to open a new distribution base and factory shop in Market Harborough. Loake Shoemakers, based in Kettering, will spend over £100,000 converting the former Heavenly Feet premises, on the Three Manors Retail Park, off Rockingham Road, after being granted planning permission for the venture, which will […]

A plea for new pedestrian crossings in Kibworth has been turned down by highways bosses. They had been requested for outside the Co-Op on the High Street and outside the Kibworth School on Smeeton Road, by the Parish Councils. Leicestershire County Council say accident figures, the number of pedestrians recorded over a week period, together […]