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Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was injured with a knife during an ‘altercation’ in Desborough. He sustained a cut to the back of his head following the incident in Gold Street yesterday morning. A spokeswoman for Northamptonshire Police told HFM: “We were called to Gold Street, Desborough, yesterday (May 29) at about […]

A talented young dancer from Kibworth is preparing to take to the stage in tonight’s live semi-final of TV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Charlie Cufflin, 13, is a member of dance company Phoenix Boys who will perform at London’s Apollo Theatre for a place in Sunday’s final. The group booked their place in the semi-final after […]

A Market Harborough pensioner is ‘over the moon’ after her beloved pet dog was found safe and well nearly three weeks after going missing in Cornwall. A massive search effort was mounted after Ozzie ran off when Ingrid Cooke arrived for a holiday on the Lizard peninsula on May 10th. The five-year-old terrier-cross was caught […]

A major technical fault left Leicestershire Police unable to answer phone calls for around five hours today. All 999 calls had to be diverted to Northamptonshire Police during the outage, while the force was unable to answer non-emergency 101 calls or receive reports or enquiries via its website. The problem was reported just before 10.30am […]

A Market Harborough fundraiser is thanking all who supported him after completing his latest big challenge. Ethan Marsh ran over 120 miles from Liverpool to Leicester in three days, raising over £1,500 in sponsorship for mental health charity MIND. His final total was given a big boost thanks to charity Royal Antediluvian Order of the […]

The founder of a Market Harborough charity says it was ‘an honour’ to attend the King’s Garden party at Buckingham Palace. Marie Connor was invited in recognition of her tireless work with HAB Anti-Bullying and Mental Health, which offers vital support to people and provides free counselling services. She launched the charity after her disabled […]

Work has begun to build new affordable homes on Market Harborough’s Southern Estate. The £6m project at Naseby Square has entered the construction phase after some bungalows were demolished to make way for the development. 38 new houses and bungalows will go up, half of which will be offered for affordable rent and the other […]

Drivers are being warned Springfield Street in Market Harborough is to shut to traffic for up to five nights. The closure will be in place between 8pm and 6am from next Thursday (June 6th), so Leicestershire County Council can carry out carriageway patching works. Diversions will be signposted.

The road linking Fleckney with Wigston is finally set to re-open this week after being shut for over seven months. Work to replace a bridge over the railway on Newton Lane near Wistow should have been completed at the start of March, but was delayed when it was halted over concerns about the highway design. […]

A Market Harborough pensioner has thanked people in Cornwall as a search continues for her beloved pet dog which ran off during a holiday. Ozzie, a five-year-old terrier cross, escaped when Ingrid Cooke arrived at a caravan park on the Lizard peninsula on May 10th. She spent the whole of the holiday trying to find […]