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Latest plans to demolish the former Queen’s Head pub in Sutton Bassett and build a house in its place have been dropped. Developers, who say re-opening it as a pub, which has been shut for over four years, would not be financially viable, have withdrawn their planning application. It also included building two semi-detached houses […]

Organisers of this Saturday’s Harborough Carnival hope its new feel will prove a success. A new committee has been busy organising the event – which will include activities and live music on the Symington’s Rec right the way through til 8pm – later than during previous carnivals. They’ll be the biggest parade for some years […]

The design of this year’s Wistow Maze has been revealed and it’s in the shape of an ambulance! It was announced earlier in the year the theme would celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, after people were asked to come up with ideas, and Market Harborough nurse Sam Screaton had hers chosen. The maze […]

An independent Planning Inspector has been appointed to examine the Harborough Local Plan, which sets out future development across the district over the next 13 years. He’ll examine comments made during a period of public consultation before holding a number of informal debates – known as ‘hearing sessions’ in October. Only then can the plan […]

Parents across Leicestershire have overwhelmingly called for school term and holiday dates to remain the same. It follows a consultation by Leicestershire County Council to get the views on possible changes from next year. However, a meeting next week will hear over 6,000 people who responded want the current system to remain –  71 per […]

An iconic silhouette of a British soldier has been placed beside the War Memorial in Market Harborough town centre, as part of commemorations to mark 100 years since the end of WW1. The 6ft tall transparent aluminum figure with its head bowed and gun in hand has been put on The Square by Harborough Council. […]

One of the first community-based schemes in the country to re-settle a refugee family will see them move to the Harborough District. South Leicestershire Community Sponsorship will launch in Market Harborough this evening. It needs to raise nine thousand pounds ahead of the arrival of the family from a refugee camp in the Syrian Region, […]

A hot air balloon landed in a Market Harborough park yesterday morning. The Virgin Balloon Flight came down at Burford Green, off Western Avenue, at around 9am after the balloon had taken off from Foxton Locks. Some bystanders had thought it had got into difficulty, although a spokesman for the company says it was a […]

A driver’s been taken to hospital as a precaution after a car collided with two parked vehicles in Market Harborough this morning. It happened just after 9.30am on Great Bowden Road, close to the junction with The Ridgeway. The elderly male driver was checked by an ambulance crew at the scene before being conveyed to […]