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A retiring Market Harborough charity worker is being praised for helping thousands of people get around. Sandy Handley has run the transport scheme at VASL for the past 29 years and during that time has arranged around 100,000 journeys, so members of the community could get to hospital, health and social appointments, via a team […]

A Market Harborough dance school is desperately searching for a new venue for its annual show after the announcement the Lighthouse Theatre in Kettering is to close. Almost 300 youngsters who are members of The Core Dance Company were due to perform there on July 1st and 2nd, with nearly all tickets already sold. The […]

A Desborough man who worked tirelessly to help NHS and care workers at the start of the pandemic has been been invited to the King’s Coronation. Aaron Shrive will be one of just 2,000 guests at the historic event at Westminster Abbey in London next Saturday. Aaron was recognised last year for producing thousands of […]

A plan developers say would allow two businesses in Market Harborough to expand has been thrown out on appeal. They wanted to create a new out-of-town base for Harborough Hire off Leicester Road, which Three Manors Developments Ltd said would have allowed Travis Perkins to extend its operations onto the firm’s current site at the […]

It has been announced a leisure complex and theatre in Kettering is to close. The Kettering Conference Centre, which includes the Lighthouse Theatre, will shut at the end of May. The news is a particular blow for groups from the Harborough area who use the theatre to perform and had shows scheduled for later this […]

A Market Harborough charity has launched an urgent appeal for funding as it tries to cope with record demand. HAB Anti-bullying and Mental Health has provided free counselling sessions for around 70 people in the past year, who otherwise would have faced waiting of up to two years to get help via the NHS. Financial […]

A man arrested after a police raid in Market Harborough yesterday has been released on bail. The 27-year-old was held on suspicion of being involved in the production of a class A drug, after officers executed a warrant at a flat in Edwin Court on Kettering Road. Police remain at the property today to recover […]

Police were called after a group of cows blocked the A6 between Market Harborough and Desborough early this morning. The animals escaped from a field near the turn for Braybrooke and gathered in the middle of the carriageway just before 7.30pm. Traffic was brought to a standstill before officers arrived to coax the cows off […]

Specialist fire crews have been called to a flat in Market Harborough after unidentified chemicals were found inside. They were alerted after Police executed a warrant at Edwin Court on Kettering Road this morning and arrested a man on suspicion of being concerned in the production of a class A drug. A Detection Identification and […]

Over 50 workers at a Market Harborough distillery are to lose their jobs after administrators were appointed. Union Distillers on Welland Business Park could no longer meet financial obligations after experiencing a decline in sales, with a number of key contracts ending. A search for a buyer for the business, which produced a range of […]