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Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has paid out £56,000 in compensation after an advisory group claimed it had been dismissed unfairly. Rupert Matthews replaced the ethics, integrity and complaints committee with a new ethics and transparency panel. He said the previous group was “not focused enough” and the new panel was more in line with […]

The Holocaust Memorial Flag has been raised on top of the Symington Building in Market Harborough on Holocaust Memorial Day. Events are taking place across the country 78 years since the liberation of Jews from Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, where six million people were murdered. Harborough District Council say lights on the Symington Building and […]

A planning inspector is to decide if a tanning salon in Market Harborough can keep its window displays. Malibu Tanning Lounge on Coventry Road is challenging a decision by Harborough District Council, ordering the removal of the decors, one of which is a picture of a woman sunbathing on a beach. The council say the […]

A prisoner has been taken to hospital after an incident at Gartree Prison. East Midlands Ambulance Service and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance were called to the jail near Market Harborough, just before 9.30am today. No details about the incident have been released, but a Prison Service spokesperson told HFM: “An ambulance was […]

Residents in Medbourne have been celebrating Village Halls Week. The national initiative is recognising the valuable contribution the buildings make to communities in rural areas. A special cake designed in the shape of the hall was baked to mark the occasion at the regular Monday teas event. Brian Godfrey chairman of the Village Hall Committee, […]

East Midlands Ambulance Service has paid private companies nearly £40m in less than three years to respond to emergency calls. Figures revealed through a Freedom of Information request by Harborough health campaigner Phil Knowles show the amount has been gradually rising since 2020. In 2020 EMAS paid private ambulance firms £11m, in 2021 it increased to […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seriously injured in a two-car crash on the B6047 in Tur Langton yesterday. She was driving a brown Vauxhall Astra estate which was involved in collision with a silver Mercedes estate, on Shangton Road just after 3.30pm. The woman, aged in her 30s, remains in hospital […]

Residents in Fleckney are unhappy plans to create a ‘community plaza’ in the centre of the village could be scrapped. Developers were granted permission to redevelop land off the High Street as part of a new homes scheme three years ago, but now want to build houses there instead. The plaza area would have included […]

Family members of a Market Harborough man who died from suicide are launching a new support group to help others. Michael Smith, known as Mikey, died in 2019, aged 31. His Mum, sister and auntie have recently completed training with the charity SOBS (Survivors of Bereavement By Suicide) and from next month will hold regular […]

A crash has closed the B6047 in the Tur Langton area. Emergency services were called at 3.30pm, after reports two vehicles had been involved in collision. Police, East Midlands Ambulance Service and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the scene. The road is closed in both directions between the junctions with Main Street […]