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Harborough District Council has agreed to make no increase in what it charges residents in council tax. The amount will be frozen at last year’s level after the authority’s budget was approved by councillors last night, meaning the yearly cost will stay at just over £177 for an average Band D property. The opposition Conservative […]

Police are investigating a burglary at a restaurant in Market Harborough town centre. Alcohol and meat was stolen during the break-in at Wildwood on High Street, which happened sometime between 10pm last night and 8am this morning. Forensic officers have been at the premises today as part of the investigation. Police are appealing for information […]

A big fundraising appeal to upgrade the chemotherapy suite at Leicester Royal Infirmary has reached its target thanks to the efforts of a couple from Kibworth. £700,000 has been raised to refurbish the area and install six additional chairs, which will enable 4,000 more chemotherapy treatments each year. Andy and Sally Anderson came up with […]

Over £500m of government funding will be provided to improve roads and public transport across Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The cash has been reallocated after the scrapping of the northern leg of the HS2 project and will be awarded over a seven year period from April 2025, to give councils time to develop plans on how […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously injured in a crash on the A14 near Naseby last night. He was driving a Ford Focus car which was involved in collision with another Ford Focus and a VW Transporter van between junction one and two on the eastbound carriageway, just before 9pm. The […]

A Market Harborough man who performed on-line sex acts in front of children has been jailed for five years. James Dyson, 26, was also found to have downloaded thousands of child sexual abuse images over a seven-and-a-half year period. Nearly 6,000 of the images were found to be Category A – depicting the most serious […]

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in Kibworth has been helping to care for an unusual patient – a long-eared bat which got stuck on a sticky flytrap. Staff painstakingly removed all the glue from the creature’s body and wings, after it flew through an open window of a house and got trapped. The male bat has now […]

HFM presenter Dani Rust is entering the final stages of a big fundraising challenge. She is walking one kilometre every day during February in support of Dementia UK and has so far raised over £450 in sponsorship. Funds raised will support the charity’s specialist ‘Admiral Nurses’ which support people with dementia and their families. The […]

Police are searching for the victim of a suspected stabbing in Lutterworth town centre. Officers were called just after 2pm following reports someone had been stabbed in the Church Street area. East Midlands Ambulance Service, an Air Ambulance crew and Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service also attended the scene. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told […]

Drivers are being warned car parks in Market Harborough will be closed for periods of time on Monday and Tuesday next week. Maintenance work including filling potholes will be carried out, with Harborough District Council apologising for the inconvenience it will cause and saying it will be completed as quickly as possible. Signs have gone […]