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The opening of a new link road through a Market Harborough housing estate is set to be delayed until August. The road between the A4304 at Lubenham Hill and the B6047 Leicester Road should have been open by now, because over 450 homes are occupied on the Airfield Farm Estate – a condition of the […]

Harborough District Council could set-up a solar farm. The authority is set to allocate £40,000 towards the green energy project in its forthcoming budget. Solar Farms are usually located in the countryside with hundreds of solar panels placed in fields to generate electricity. Plans are at a very early stage, so no potential site has yet […]

A man has been injured in a crash involving a cyclist and car driver near a Harborough village. Emergency services were called to Peatling Road near Willoughby Waterleys just before 12.30pm today. Leicestershire Police say the cyclist has been taken to hospital and officers remain on the scene. The road is closed between the Mere […]

There are just two days left to comment on plans to change services provided at Feilding Palmer Hospital in Lutterworth. The NHS wants to close in-patient beds to instead offer more outpatient and diagnostic services, which it says will save patients having to travel elsewhere to access them. Bosses say it will increase the number […]

A former Harborough sub-postmaster was accused of stealing nearly £2,000 after the Horizon computer system reported a shortfall despite her Post Office being closed for a year. The small branch in North Kilworth shut at the start of the pandemic in 2020, because it could not be adapted for social distancing. Julie Beisner checked her […]

Police are investigating after members of the Northants Hunt Saboteurs group were assaulted while monitoring hunt activities near Oakham. The women were dragged to the ground by a group of men in a field on Saturday afternoon. Those involved have provided witness statements to officers and say the men were acting a stewards for the […]

There is less than two weeks left for you to have your say on the controversial plan to shut Market Harborough tip. Over 3.500 people have already taken part in a public consultation into the proposed closure, along with two others in Leicestershire. The County Council has proposed the closures and to reduce opening hours […]

A disqualified driver has been jailed for five years and two months after his actions killed his partner in a crash near Market Harborough. Steven Gaskell was driving with Courtney Donnelly on the A427 when he lost control in Brampton Ash on the evening of September the 17th last year. The Mini Cooper car, which […]

Harborough District Council has announced plans to increase its share of your council tax bill. The authority’s budget proposals have been revealed which also include no plans to increase car parking charges or raise the cost of its garden waste bin collection service. Increasing council’s element of council tax bills by 2.99% equates to an […]