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Robert Smyth Academy have sent out an email to parents following reports of 2 men following a group of pupils from Ridgeway Primary. The email is reproduced below.   Dear Parent/Carer Ridgeway Primary Academy received a report that 2 men in a brown/grey car approached and followed a group of pupils at around 4.30pm yesterday […]

Police have unveiled new roadside testing kits which they say will help them catch more drivers who are under the influence of cannabis or cocaine. It comes as the Leicestershire force launches its annual summer drink and drug drive clampdown. The kits quickly tell if someone has one of the illegal drugs in their system, […]

Police are urging people in Desborough to ensure doors and windows are closed locked at night and when they’re not at home. It’s after several reports over the past few days of would-be burglars trying door handles in different parts of the town late at night or during the early hours to see if doors […]

Market Harborough Fire Station is being used as a Blood Donor site as part of a trial scheme. The first session was held at the Fairfield Road base this week and if another goes well it will host 12 a year. The move will save the NHS National Blood Service a substantial amount of cash, […]

Police are appealing for information after a man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a charity tin in Market Harborough. He’s been questioned after being arrested in the Memorial Gardens on Tuesday afternoon As yet no-one has reported a red Loros collection tin being taken from their premises – it contained about £30. Officers are […]

Market Harborough-based Joules are celebrating good sales figures today, bucking the trend of other retail giants. They were up more than a fifth in the year to the end of May, to almost £186m. Sales through its shops and online increased around 16 per cent on the previous year. The firm employs around 200 people […]

A new project is to launch in the Harborough District to help children from low-income families get active. Home-Start South Leicestershire will work with the Council and Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport to deliver it, after funding of over 440 thousand pounds was secured from Sport England. It’ll include organising tailored, affordable activities and creating activity […]

Leicestershire’s smallest library has opened – in a red phone box in Billesdon! Villagers have already donated around 200 books for the renovated kiosk on Church Street, which was taken on by the Parish Council after BT removed the phone. It’s been kitted out with shelves, plus solar-powered lighting and heating to keep the moisture […]

What looks like footprints of a beast appeared overnight in Market Harborough! They stretch from the River Welland across part of the pedestrian area outside Sainsburys. S,o has the infamous black beast made an appearance, or an artist been busy at work ?    

A developer says the NHS could have made more money out of the sale of Market Harborough’s former Cottage Hospital. It was revealed last week the Coventry Road site was sold for £1.35, although Harborough-based RSJ Developments last year bid over 1.5 million for it. Director John Cooper then pulled out of the running after […]