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A Market Harborough man has been arrested after a woman was sexually assaulted in Rothwell. The 37-year-old is being questioned following the incident in the Manor Park area of the town yesterday afternoon. A woman aged in her 40s was assaulted sometime between 12pm and 2pm. Police are appealing for witnesses and would particularly like […]

A Market Harborough man has been jailed for over three years for tricking his way into homes of pensioners in Rothwell. William Wallace stole items from a 90-year-old man after calling at his house in Moorfield Road late at night, claiming he was owed money. He also targeted a 78-year-old woman, saying she needed work […]

An investigation has been launched after part of a road in a residential street in Market Harborough subsided. Leicestershire County Council ordered the immediate closure of a section on Logan Street yesterday, so investigation work could take place. The road has since re-opened to traffic, although an area at the junction with Coventry Road remains […]

A land owner has been told to clear dumped rubbish from an area of a Market Harborough business park. Harborough District Council has identified who is responsible for the land at Compass Point Business Park and asked them to remove the fly-tipping as soon as possible from the site off Northampton Road. Waste including a […]

The building of large new business park on the outskirts of Market Harborough has moved a step closer. Harborough District Council has issued planning consent for the development on 25 acres of farmland off the B6047 Leicester Road, which has the potential to create 1,000 jobs. Planning permission was granted earlier this year and the […]

A rehabilitated seabird which was one of Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital’s most unusual patients has been released back into the wild. Staff from the Kibworth-based charity made a 320-mile round trip to return the Manx Shearwater to its home on the coast of west Wales. Video: The moment the Manx Shearwater was released They had been […]

Police are appealing for witnesses and dash-cam footage after a two-car crash on the A6 Desborough bypass. It happened between 5.10pm and 5.20pm yesterday and involved drivers of a white Seat Leon and black VW golf, which both left the carriageway near the Arthingworth Road bridge, close to the Braybrooke Road/Desborough Road roundabout. Police say […]

A heartbroken horse owner from Market Harborough is appealing for information after two of his animals died following a hit and run. James Mason was travelling on the M25 near Enfield in north London on Saturday morning when a car clipped the back of the horse box he was towing. The impact caused it to […]

Plans have been unveiled new build new flats close to Market Harborough town centre which would involve demolishing a dentist surgery. Other buildings would also be demolished to make-way for the three-storey apartment block at the corner of Fairfield Road and Goward Street, part of which is already derelict. It would provide 12, one-bedroomed flats […]